Filmmaker Gunnar (Björn Thors, THE DEEP) proposes a documentary on the Glacial Research Centre as a pretense to visit his girlfriend Agla (Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir), a graduate student working as a research assistant with a six man scientific crew. He is completely unaware that Agla has discovered an abyss at the edge of the camp from which strange sounds and lights have been emanating. After a night of getting reacquainted, Agla and Gunnar awake to discover that the camp is otherwise empty. When the other researches do not return at nightfall, they start to worry. When the strange blinding lights and sounds from the abyss assail the camp itself, they realize that something beneath the Earth has awakened and that they may be next to join the missing crew.

A foreign "found footage" film is always a novelty, but FROST being an Icelandic "found footage" film is the only novelty. As the film moves on, it becomes more and more apparent that all we're going to get are offscreen sounds and bright lights and an occasional jump scare. However ambitious the project (the documentary shows the crew shooting in real blizzards on location), it's more of the same with the director seeming more interested in going through the motions (using the film as a stepping stone to more mainstream work) than putting a new spin on the genre or even an original or satisfying ending. There is, however, a nice role reversal in that the woman is the resourceful and calm one while her filmmaking beau is the whiny, panicky, and ill-prepared for the environment even before things start going wrong; but that's the only new spin and this is not a character piece.