The icy death

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Movie
German title The icy death
Original title Wind chill
Country of production UK , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gregory Jacobs
script Joe Gangemi
Stephen Katz
production Graham Broadbent
Peter Czernin
music Clint Mansell
camera Dan Laustsen
cut Lee Percy
occupation

Wind Chill (Original: Wind Chill ) is a British-American horror film from director Gregory Jacobs in 2007. The screenplay for the film is by Joe Gangemi and Stephen Katz . The film was produced by Section Eight Productions , which was founded in 2000 by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney .

action

December 23: A young student at a university in Pennsylvania wants to spend the Christmas holidays with her family in Wilmington , Delaware , so she uses her faculty bulletin board to find a lift. An advertisement brings her together with a fellow student who willingly takes her with him in his rickety car and who is unsympathetic to her. The long drive on snow-covered highways is initially uneventful, the conversation is limited to superficial things, whereby he values ​​a conversation. However, as the length of her journey increases, the young woman's extremely friendly driver becomes uncanny because he knows details of her private life. The young woman exposes her injured driver as a liar, who only wanted to use the six-hour drive to get closer to her.

After several hours of driving, despite an upcoming snow storm , the driver leaves the safe highway and turns to a narrow, rarely traveled country road, which is an alleged shortcut. On this snow-covered road, travelers are involved in an accident at dusk by an oncoming vehicle, the other party disappears; her car is now unfit to drive. The unequal carpool is now completely on its own in the deserted wasteland, because you cannot contact any help.

Nevertheless, the young people get together at night and hide in the car as best they can to defy the increasing cold. However, they are repeatedly disturbed by eerie phenomena in the wintry landscape that wander past their vehicle without paying attention to them. Those ghosts of people who died in this place, suddenly appearing out of nowhere, trigger nightmarish events that keep them awakening in their car. A large part of the tension arises from the fact that these events are shown as real and can only be recognized as nightmares when you wake up. After a fight between the two and a vicious police officer, the woman is no longer sure whether it was a dream or a reality. The young man has real battle marks on his hands and injuries. When she tries to tap a phone line to make an emergency call, the driver dies of internal injuries. When a tow driver picks up the young woman, he tells her the story behind the phenomena: For years, a violent police officer always murdered people on this street at the same time, these murdered people were haunted on the street at this time. The young woman is threatened by this ghost, but the ghost of the murdered young man comes to her aid. The film ends with her rescue in the real world.

Reviews

"Unimportant horror film that lovelessly and lifelessly taps into the known repertoire, but after promising beginnings does not understand how to stir up interest in the fate of its people."

- Lexicon of international film

The film has a positive rate of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes and 52% on Metacritic .

Locations

The college scene was filmed at the University of British Columbia near Vancouver ( British Columbia , Canada ). The outdoor scenes were filmed in Peachland (also British Columbia) in February and March 2006.

additional

Windchill is an English term for wind chill .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of release for the icy death . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 716 K).
  2. ↑ The icy death. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used