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The Flying Dutchman (2000 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Flying Dutchman' is an American horror film of 2000, directed by Robin P. Murray and starring Catherine Oxenberg, Eric Roberts, and Rod Steiger.
The movie has also been called 'Frozen in Fear'[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b88e1ea12 "The Flying Dutchman (2000)"], British Film Institute, accessed 29 July 2021 and is a re-working of 'The Mystery of the Wax Museum' (1933) and 'House of Wax' (1953).[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/frozen-fear "Frozen in Fear"], 'Encyclopedia.com', accessed 18 July 2021
It was released on streaming media on September 11, 2001.
Outline
An art buyer in Seattle buys a good painting from an old lady called Moira (Joan Benedict) and offers it to Lacy Anderson (Catherine Oxenberg), a dealer. Lacy is impressed and wants to represent the painter, who lives in a remote cabin by a lake at Dark Hollow, Western Montana, so she and her assistant Polly go there to meet Sean (Eric Roberts). Lacy falls for him, and when they go hiking in the mountains she is concussed, waking up in Seans bed. Sean and his friend Ben (Rod Steiger) look after her, and Sean wants Lacy to stay with him, but she plans to go back to Seattle. When Lacy fails to arrive home, Polly goes back to look for her and is captured by Sean. Lacy finds Ben, unhinged, holding Moira at gunpoint. Events from Seans childhood are then visited in a flashback: Sean saw his father kill his mother and then himself.[https://www.hannibalpictures.com/the-flying-dutchman/ "The Flying Dutchman"], hannibalpictures.com, accessed 18 July 2021
Lacy goes to Seans cabin looking for Polly and finds her chained to a table. Sean shows Lacy his ice sculpture "Maternal Ice Tomb", containing three naked women, in an ice house. He is about to kill Lacy when Moiras friend Ethan arrives, armed with a gun, and stops him. Ethan then sees his missing girlfriend in the ice. Sean tries to kill Ethan, but Lacy gets hold of the gun and shoots Sean several times. Ethan, Polly and Lacy go to tell Moira Sean is dead, but soon Seans body disappears, with a trail of blood tracks leading to the lake.
Months later, at home in Seattle, Lacy receives a new painting by Sean, and then gets a phone call from him.
Cast
*Catherine Oxenberg as Lacy Anderson
*Eric Roberts as Sean
*Rod Steiger as Ben
*Joan Benedict as Moira[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frozen_in_fear "THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 2000, Mystery & thriller"], 'Rotten Tomatoes', accessed 2 August 2021
*Scott Plank as Ethan"Frozen in Fear / The Flying Dutchman (2000)" in Jim Craddock, 'Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005' (2004), pp. 11 and 322
*Ellina McCormick as Polly
*Gabriel Clark as Vitally
*Douglas Sebern as Hans
*Barry Sigismondi as Nathaniel
*Christi Marsico as Astrid
*Brendan Shanahan as Simon
*Gillian Todd as Hippie Girl
Reception
When the movie was released on video in 2003 as 'Frozen in Fear', Sean Abbertons review for 'Michael DVD' found that Rod Steiger was "the clear stand-out", stealing scenes from younger actors. He found the movie to be "amiably directed and photographed", but nevertheless "let down by a deplorably woeful script and one-dimensional character development".Sean Abberton, [http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3867 "Frozen in Fear (Flying Dutchman, The) (2000)"], michaeldvd.com.au, accessed 2 August 2021
'Film Review' gave the video release of 2003 a negative review under the heading "Frozen in Fear it will leave you cold"."From December 16: Frozen in Fear it will leave you cold" in 'Film Review', June 2003, #631 (Orpheus Publishing), p. 94 It commented Den of Geek also reviewed the movie, calling it "quite possibly the hugest pile of shite anyone could ever have the misfortune to sit through."
Notes
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