Wind Chill (2007)

Such a frustrating disappointment

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A must see movie for classic horror fans. This is not a superficial slasher, gore fest. It is desolate like being stranded, and mood driven with ghostliness, and an overall sadness about it. For those who have a liking of darkness, snow, and cold in settings with few or only one other person to experience things, or to solely rely on this is one for you. I personally absolutely love this movie. It's one of my favorites of all time, and I've seen most. I've watched it many times. I tend to be a loner, rather than extravertish, and this movie really agrees with my personality. I fell in love with Emily Blunt as this being the first movie I ever saw her in. Though a low budget movie, I don't know how much if any, a larger budget would have improved it. It's a hidden gem.

A common motif in horror is the lingering effects of bad occurrences. "Wind Chill" sets this on a country road in midwinter, with a young man and young woman stranded by a collection of mysterious figures. It mostly struck me as a routine movie about 20-somethings experiencing the terrifying effects of previous events. It's not a bad movie, just not much that we haven't seen before. As with most horror movies, the most interesting characters are the ghostly beings.I see that they filmed the movie in British Columbia. Having been to BC a few times, I can affirm that it's a fine place. It's not hard to see why people like filming there (especially in Vancouver). It wouldn't be a bad place to live.

I enjoyed this movie! It wasn't as thrilling as some but the story & characters drew me in and fascinated me. The acting was absolutely brilliant from all concerned - especially the two leads - "guy and girl". I loved that they never named them and how interesting it was that they never introduce themselves to each other! Very moody and tense, this is not a horror flick for gore fans, it's more of a tension- filled drama with spooky spectral beings and one particularly nasty ghost adding to the proceedings. The script is extremely well written, even eliciting a couple of wry chuckles at appropriate times. The direction and score (by the awesome Mansell) were excellent and it utilised it's chillingly beautiful snow- bound setting and creepy ruins expertly. I loved it but I wouldn't call it a horror movie - despite a few of the nastier images. It's more of a thrilling drama, a spooky love story, and/or - as someone else wrote - a tale of redemption. It's also a tale about dealing with isolation, not just in the snow-covered crashed car but in the lives of the protagonists generally. And the ending is perfect when you understand what this movie is - and is not - about.The movie gives you plenty to think about and if you watch this expecting everything to be crystal clear, straightforward and wrapped up at the end you'll be disappointed. It's got something of a metaphorical/philosophical under-pinning that relates to the characters of 'guy' and 'girl' and their "night of awakening".I note with interest several of the "this is rubbish" reviews seem to have made obvious mistakes about what happens in this movie, even clear and simple things like what actions the characters took to get help at different times. Either they didn't watch it all or they weren't paying attention which is probably why they ended up giving it a bad review. This is a movie you need to pay attention to - it's not just "lets have fun eating popcorn while watching people being terrorised in the dark" - there's much more to it than that.But it's the two main actors that really make this movie. The quality of their acting is astounding and it says bucket-fulls about their acting skills that they both eventually gained my sympathy. I actually didn't like either of them at first, she was horribly arrogant & he is a stalker/loser, but as the movie progressed I grew to understand them & their behaviour (as did they) and really care about, not just their survival of this particular night, but their future development as human beings. I recommend it to people who like moody ghost stories with an intelligent, poetic style & a focus on character development, who don't mind a slower paced movie. I don't recommend it if you have the attention span of a gnat or think horror movies are good only if they're about "violence, gore & sick stuff" as I've heard some say. Will be looking for more from this director.

A young man (Holmes) has through a subterfuge arranged to drive a college girl he adores from afar but has never met (Blunt) from New England to her home in Delaware for the Christmas holidays. Somewhere in Pennsylvania she uncovers his scheme and heaps her calumny upon him. In fact, she's really pretty bitchy and ill tempered. Her default expression is a contemptuous scowl, redintegrating warm memories of my ex wife.Holmes is neatly cast too. He's pale and a little weak looking, as if he needed a blood transfusion, and he's socially very awkward. In his feeble attempts to initiate a conversation with her during a long and boring ride through mountains blanketed with snow, he explains that his major is Eastern religions and details a belief that when one dies, his life begins all over again, like an hour glass turned upside down. I hope you got that. It provides what little foundation there is for what happens after the car slides off the road and is fixed in a snow bank.Actually, the two principals are rather neatly drawn and turn in capable performances. And the location is convincingly rural, mountainous, and uninvitingly cold.That's about the end of the good part. It's not impossible to make a decent scary movie on a small budget (cf., "Carnival of Souls") but this particular plot lacks any semblance of subtlety. Every supposedly spooky moment is thrust into your face, accompanied by a big BANG on the sound track. If the writers (Gangemi and Katz) and the director (Jacobs) could do it, they'd reach out and box your ears.Well, we know that on this frozen road in the middle of nowhere, a bunch of zombies show up, shuffling about, indifferent to their anabiosis, threatening the frightened couple who are trying to hide in their defunct car, and we know that if you touch them, your fingers freeze to them. That's ALL we know for sure. Evidently only one of them is truly evil -- a state trooper -- but he doesn't look like a gargoyle, whereas the "good" zombies do. Not that it matters much because logic has already been thrown out of the window and frozen in mid air.If you can think of a cliché that can be applied to two motorists stranded all night in a forest, you'll find it here. You may find some here that CAN'T be applied too. Emily Blunt apparently falls asleep and has a fitful dream of evil events of the past. And when she wakes up, she jams her face into the camera lens and screams. Twice. Holmes dies of a hollow organ injury and -- true to the religious belief he outlined earlier -- comes back in a second life in time to save Blunt's bacon. I would have thought that if you "started your own life all over again" you'd come back as a baby in the year you were born, but fortunately for Blunt, Holmes relives only the last hour or two.What else? Oh, yes. You remember that evil-doing rapist state trooper? This time, instead of being given the last rites so he can commit his criminal acts over and over, he's allowed to burn to death in his overturned vehicle. I ask you, the discerning viewer -- the experienced, the SAVVY viewer -- after his shrieking form is consumed by flame, does he spring back to rip-roaring life for a final attack?