The Weekend Alternative: Frozen Movies of Death

Before James Cameron showed us the Na'vi, he experimented on steerage passengers from the early 1900s.  Dude's got an obsession with making his characters blue.  Sam Worthington was lucky enough to get motion captured, poor Leo DiCaprio had to freeze in the North Atlantic.

There's an awful lot of good frozen death in Danny Boyle's Sunshine. 

First, Troy Garity turns into a spacecicle when he's unable to leap from ship to ship without a suit.

Then, Chris Evans has to wrench for humanity inside a pool of heart atack-inducing subzero liquid.  It's one of the goriest scenes without blood you are likely to see.  Dude can play the Human Torch ten more times and never fully warm up.

There's death all over the place in John Carpenter's masterpiece (and one of the finest suspense pictures ever made) The Thing.  However, none of the death is due to the cold.  Nevertheless, all the death happens near the cold, and, as a result, some of the bodies look like they froze to death at first glance.

Here's a big ice cube of dead Norwegian that took his own life, rather than succumb to the monstrosity that is. . . .THE THING.

The Klingon prison planet Rura Penthe has no walls.  It doesn't need them.

There isn't enough Bloodwine in the world to keep you warm in its climate.  Although, Kirk and McCoy do manage to get out.  So does Captain Archer, come to think about it.  And, in the Blu-ray extras, so does Nero and the crew of the Narada.  Hey - what the heck kind of prison planet is this?

Talk about a Cold War!!!!!

The Soviets and the Americans (and, yes, the Brits, pipe down Patrick McGoohan) come to the brink of World War III in this snowy epic.

While there are numerous bodies to be found whose cause of death was exposure, this is not one of them.  This is Russian double agent (actually, single agent - it's complicated) Ernest Borgnine dying of bullet wound.  Still, he's out in the North Pole, so he's cold.  Plus, it's a pic of Borgnine sticking his tongue out.  I feel like everybody wins here.