WIND CHILL
Horror
Character Study in Shades of Snow & Ice,
WIND CHILL is an excellent
horror movie & character study of a male & female college student
driving home for the winter holiday break--and who end up in a snow-enclosed,
terrifying Twilight Zone. Emily Blunt & Ashton Holmes are the students and
both are very good actors. Emily Blunt is particularly impressive as the
cynical & control freak co-ed who just wants to get home with a stranger
she begins to suspect is up to no good--but it's not the self-effacing male
student who proves to be her worst nightmare.
The theme of Nietzsche's "Eternal Return" pops up in the student's
initial getting-to-know-you chitchat--and foreshadows the terrifying events to
come. This is more than a 20's-something angst. All the creative elements
indicate a mature vision & production.
This is a keeper. I just watched WIND CHILL for the third time & could even
watch it again tonight--and might just do that.
