The 24-year-old former Disney actress plays a teen prostitute Cindy Paulson opposite Nicolas Cage and John Cusack in the American thriller, reported Contactmusic.
In one of the sequences, Hudgens will pole-dance as a part of raunchy routine in a strip club.
Hudgens, who shot to fame with 'High School Musical' series, is inclined to shed her innocent school girl image.
'The Frozen Ground' is scheduled to release in the UK on July 13 and in the US on August 13.