23 May 2010. Jeff Goldblum insidiously and scarily with intelligence inhabits the role of of the Devil in this occult horror thriller that avoids the usually overt bloody mess of its genre. Instead while there is the narcissistic and pretentious characters, it is never about the movie itself, it is about the mental and emotional conflict between good and evil. This movie is scary in its seductive illusion that evil can be good and funny, cunning, and diverting. But in the end it is nothing to be trifled with. Mr. Frost is a cold, manipulating and debonair creature that fools even the audience in calculating the emotional enrapture in a sinister way that even Hannibal Lector cannot, because Mr. Frost is the essence of evil. The movie is engrossing and wicked in its pacing, eerie music reminiscent of the 60s and 70s that even twenty years later screeches with mystery and fear. This movie is a densely "horrible" movie made all the challenging and impressive by its ability to still evoke terror, hatred, revenge by its omission of the more visceral physical depiction of raw and bloody gore allowing the audience to focus on the deeper, substantive essence of evil.
Review of Mister Frost
