It was a surprisingly sunny day following a snow-drowned weekend as I walked from the Village Cinemas to Park City's Main Street to interview Emma Bell about her Sundance Festival Film "Frozen." The Bing Bar and its gathering of paparazzi pushed our scheduled street-side interview into the upper room of a nearby club. As I arrive the principal cast and director Adam Green are outside on the club's back porch being interviewed by a television crew. The film's publicist asks if I'd like to interview the whole group.

My gut reaction is to stick with what I prepared for, but I've never been one to pass up an unexpected challenge and agree to take on the whole lot.

Moments later I find myself comfortable situated on a couch surrounded by Bell, Green, Shawn Ashmore and Kevin Zegers. Dropping my iPhone on to the coffee table, knowing that I'm about to create the world's worst bootleg (a band is playing a floor below us) and the most muddled interview recording known to man, I apologize for potential errors.

Starting off, I thank Green for deciding to film here in Utah at the Snow Basin resort. He explains that he fought to film here because not only could he use his usual crew, he also knew that the local crew would be professionals who had worked on major productions rather than a group of unqualified people who merely dabbled in film or failed in L.A. and escaped to smaller markets.

Last year when Green was at Sundance promoting the acclaimed horror feature "Grace" (he produced), he scouted "just about every resort in a two-hour radius." At Snow Basin he found a rarely used lift that reminded him of those he used to ride back in Boston when he was younger.

Green, animated with excitement, recalls, "I was like, 'This is the spot. This is where they're going to die!' "

"Frozen" has been categorized as a horror film, partially because of Green's success with his film "Hatchet," but I contend that it is a thriller.

Bell agrees, " When I read it, 'horror film' never came into my mind. I was attracted to it because there's a thriller aspect combined with a great character drama. I knew that the film could be really bad or really good depending on if they were able to get the character dynamic right. It was a challenge, but that's what attracted me to it," she says.

Green adds, "Whenever we had meetings to talk about the film we always approached it as a drama."

Ashmore, commenting what attracted him to the script, says, "There is a real sense of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. So as much as these characters are based in reality when you put them in the context of this amazing circumstance, you get to play around in spectrum of emotion without being melodramatic. As an actor, that's a lot of fun."

Zegers says, "It's a thriller, sure, but I was more interested in just playing this character."

Because the majority of the film takes place on a ski-lift bench, high in the air, the actors understood that there was no place to hide from the camera and this pushed them to be fully invested in their characters.

Green adds, "You can't just do a cut away, other than time cuts, because there is nothing to cut away to. The whole movie rests on their performances and that's what excited me. The films I grew up loving was about the characters and the gags and scares were secondary."

Green comments that because of the small cast, "Frozen" was more a collaboration than a traditional film where he would call all the shots. "All four of us are filmmakers. It wasn't 'You're the actor so you get to stand here and say this.' We all listened to each other. That's what I really enjoyed about working on this [film]."

With that, the Canadians of the group, Zegers and Ashmore, are dragged away by CTV and Green engages with his next assignment leaving Bell and I to chat about our mutual obsession with the social aspects of Nazi Germany and how she'd love to be in a fantasy film like "The Lord of the Rings" someday. I'd like to see it happen. Maybe I should start writing one for her.