Below Zero 2011 Based on true events, BELOW ZERO is a thriller with a Fargo feel It is the story of Jack the Hack, a less than average, but once successful screenwriter who now faces writers block Desperate to meet a career saving deadline and lock out the distractions of his troubled life, Jack arranges to be left alone and locked inside a meat cooler, with only vegetarian meals and his imagination to inspire him As the temperature drops, the lines between reality and fiction blur, and Jacks script comes dangerously to life Will he make the most important deadline of his career Or is Jack just a hack While writing the script, the actual screenwriter and producer of BELOW ZERO, Signe Olynyk, arranged to have herself physically locked in the meat freezer of an abandoned, remote slaughterhouse Thats partly how this story developed It was filmed at the same location