there's no place like home for the holidays
Added 11/10/2009
every once in a while, a sleeper of a creepy good watch comes along. so is the case of this dvd. not quite a true horror film and not all suspense, it straddles a fence between the two much in the way that michael j fox's "the frighteners" does. to say any more would give away some of the plotline and i think that would be unfair to the readers here. enough to say that i recommend it highly. it is an especially eerie seasonal (winter/christmas) film. (unless, of course, you have kids making their way home from college!)
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Surprise! No DVD in box.
Added 9/11/2009
I very recently ordered and received from this site the DVD "Wind Chill." I just opened the sealed package to watch the movie -- and there was NO DVD IN THE BOX! I received an empty box! Needless to say, I am not a happy camper. What would I have wanted to know before I purchased this product? That I could trust this website to provide the product I ordered! I expect this oversight to be corrected.
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Wind Chill
Added 4/3/2009
The movie starts out with a guy giving a girl a ride home from college on winter break. From the start something appeared wrong with both of them but you had to keep watching or guessing to figure out what was happening. She gets locked in a stall and no one hears her, maybe she's dead and thats what we are going find out. Then the man takes a snow covered road. I know since I travel plenty of miles in the winter and with an old car, but not as crappy as his, that it wont last long. He is driven off the road by anther vehicle but there is no sign of it. Then everything is revealed and the movie drags for maybe twenty minutes. Then things start to happen and the movie picks up with one jolt after anther. The ending was decent but it felt weak, like the couldn't figure out how to end the film. The atmosphere was perfect; Winter is much better in horror films because its hard to move in snow and it feels like your trapped at every turn. I enjoyed the film overall and will admit, its one straight to dvd horror film that is well worth watching.
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COLD SHOULDER OF THE ROAD
Added 3/4/2009
When Christmas break rolls around a young woman (Emily Blunt) waits to the last minute to find a ride. A suggestion to her cell phone makes her take a look at the local kiosk where she finds a share a ride notice for someone heading her way.
She meets up with the young man offering the ride (Ashton Holmes) and they head out on the road, forgetting several packages in the parking lot that would have come in useful later. Along the way the girl (that's how she's listed in the credits) offers a totally unsocial atmosphere to her benefactor.
During their conversations things begin to look a bit unusual. Subtle clues point out that this young man may not be who he claims. His knowledge of where she comes from and where he is heading is lacking. His interest in her seems a bit overdone. And eventually his attempts to impress her result in them crashing the car in a snow bank in one of the worst storms that year.
Stranded in the snow and lacking any food items (told you those bags left in the parking lot would have come in handy) they do their best to survive. The road he chose as a short cut turned out to be one sparsely traveled at best. The only car seen for some time was the one that ran them off the road.
Cold and hungry, he sets out to find help at the gas station several miles back down the road. While he is gone, the girl begins to see things. People who aren't there, And one who is, a man wrapped in wire and struggling to walk. When she gets back to the car the young man returns and neither can find any evidence of the man she saw.
The films plays on the desolate location and the sights and sounds the pair see or perhaps don't see. Are the images before them real or imagined? Or perhaps they are the ghosts of lives past who have also traveled the road.
One set is a group of what appears to be monks. Upon investigation the young man finds a burned out house that still holds the remains of several men in their bunks. But the most startling image is that of a state patrolman who seems more intent on doing harm than helping.
When the young man is injured, it's up to the woman to save them. Taking a phone and hoping to connect on the pole that stands along in the white wonderland, she climbs with the intent of seeking help. She does so but even this person is not safe from the patrolman.
But again we are left to wonder, as he appears and disappears, is he real or not? The clues are there for all to see and you might even have the chance of putting them together to figure out the whole story. But before it happens, you'll be jolted back and forth from calm to fear, from safe to danger, in a story that chills not just because of location but because of the forces behind it as well.
The acting is quite well for such a small film. It relies completely on the two leads to carry off not only the difficulties between them but the dependence on one another as well. Is he a stalker? Did he crash on purpose? And how are the people they see connected to what's going on?
If you're in need of a good chill (perhaps not this winter but while in front of the fireplace of heater) then this movie is worth looking for. It offers a better scare that is more in mind than out and keeps you guessing.
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total flop
Added 1/19/2009
Is this movie supposed to be for kids? Not once during the whole movie was I scared. Is this supposed to be a horror movie? It looked more like a marriage drama. The whole time I was hoping for someone to get killed, because that's what usually happens in horror movies. I had to wait until the last 15 minutes of the movie for this to happen. And only one person got killed, what a disappointment. All the time I was rooting for college Guy to kill college Girl. She seemed like a crazy woman from hell. Without any reason she started to beat on him. Okay, he had some mental problems, but he hadn't hurt anyone. She was acting like a lunatic, and should be locked up. Or better, she should have been killed.
Emily Blunt's acting performance as the college Girl was dreadful, by the way. The college Guy also seemed to be suffering from autism or something, because at no time was he acting like a normal college Guy. He seemed like a mental patient escaped from an institution. No wonder college Girl got a little insane.
It is never explained why college Guy became a little unstable in the first place, but I guess that must be the reason. It only seems normal, any guy would do the same.
The fake snow was the only saving factor that stopped me from totally tearing this movie to pieces. It was a delight to watch and is truly fine fake snow. Unfortunately, snow can only do so much, and it saves the movie from being a total flop.
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there's no place like home for the holidays
Added 11/10/2009
every once in a while, a sleeper of a creepy good watch comes along. so is the case of this dvd. not quite a true horror film and not all suspense, it straddles a fence between the two much in the way that michael j fox's "the frighteners" does. to say any more would give away some of the plotline and i think that would be unfair to the readers here. enough to say that i recommend it highly. it is an especially eerie seasonal (winter/christmas) film. (unless, of course, you have kids making their way home from college!)
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Surprise! No DVD in box.
Added 9/11/2009
I very recently ordered and received from this site the DVD "Wind Chill." I just opened the sealed package to watch the movie -- and there was NO DVD IN THE BOX! I received an empty box! Needless to say, I am not a happy camper. What would I have wanted to know before I purchased this product? That I could trust this website to provide the product I ordered! I expect this oversight to be corrected.
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Wind Chill
Added 4/3/2009
The movie starts out with a guy giving a girl a ride home from college on winter break. From the start something appeared wrong with both of them but you had to keep watching or guessing to figure out what was happening. She gets locked in a stall and no one hears her, maybe she's dead and thats what we are going find out. Then the man takes a snow covered road. I know since I travel plenty of miles in the winter and with an old car, but not as crappy as his, that it wont last long. He is driven off the road by anther vehicle but there is no sign of it. Then everything is revealed and the movie drags for maybe twenty minutes. Then things start to happen and the movie picks up with one jolt after anther. The ending was decent but it felt weak, like the couldn't figure out how to end the film. The atmosphere was perfect; Winter is much better in horror films because its hard to move in snow and it feels like your trapped at every turn. I enjoyed the film overall and will admit, its one straight to dvd horror film that is well worth watching.
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