Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Cryo Is a Twisty Chilly Thriller

Horror Obsessive
by Sean Parker

Cryonics is the science of preserving a human being in a state of suspended stasis. Why would you do this? Maybe a loved one is dying of a disease, and a cure is coming but not fast enough. Maybe they’re suffering from a horrible wound that could potentially be healed in the future. Or perhaps, you’re a lover of turn-of-the-century cartoons, and you look forward to sharing an apartment with a foul-mouthed robot that calls you meatbag. Regardless, cryonics doesn’t necessarily work yet, and, as fringe science, it’s had very little success. However, it does make for an interesting science-fiction horror plot in Barrett Burgin’s Cryo. 

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