A boring little film about a scientist duo who are researching in the then
new field of cryogenics.  The scientists give a presentation to the World
Health Organization about their experiments with freezing chimpanzees to -80
degrees Centrigrade.  Their presentation gets a favorable response, until
the topic of human subjects is brought up and the scientists admit they are
on the doorstep of such experimentation.  Now one of these scientists is an
older American male, and the other, an attractive young German female.  The
doctor's wife doesn't care for the time he spends with the sexy Kraut, and
their marriage is in trouble as a result.  Even after receiving a
prestigious award and a large financial sum, the two argue and the scientist
runs to the lab to do more work.  The wife goes out with her former lover
and gets wasted.  She steals a gun and goes to the lab, about to threaten
the female scientist when her husband stops her and takes her home.

Meanwhile, the scientists' experiments might be coming to a halt, and they
are not happy, being so close to human suspended animation.  The scientist
decides that he wants to be the first human guinea pig, and convinces his
partner to freeze him.  They do so, and he seems to be successfully frozen.
His wife ends up in a worse state - death - after an accident with the gun.
And the scientist is the prime suspect!  Will he survive the thawing
process?  Will he be able to answer the police's questions, and preserve his
good name?  Who really cares?  He ends up surviving (just barely), and a
witness (the wife's lover) comes forward, so we get a warm fuzzy ending.
Boo Hoo!  This film could not hold my interest.  It wasn't a horror movie,
although promoted as such.  It was hardly science fiction.  It was more like
a melodrama.  And poorly done, at that.  Skip this clunker!
 
 
 

Quality: 3.0  Visuals: 1.5  Intensity: 1.5
OVERALL RATING: 2.0