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3 August 2007 (UK)
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There Are Worse Things Than Dying more
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Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there. | full synopsis
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A turning point in contemporary horror?
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Emily Blunt | ... | Girl |
 | Ashton Holmes | ... | Guy |
 | Martin Donovan | ... | Highway Patrolman |
 | Ned Bellamy | ... | Snowplow Driver |
 | Ian A. Wallace | ... | Priest (as Ian Wallace) |
 | Donny James Lucas | ... | Stranger (as Donny Lucas) |
 | Chelan Simmons | ... | Blonde Girl |
| Darren Moore | ... | Clerk |
 | Linden Banks | ... | Proctor |
| Caz Odin Darko | ... | Teenage Boy #1 (as Caz Darko) |
| Heath Horejda | ... | Teenage Boy #2 |
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Rated R for some violence and disturbing images.
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91 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:R |
Argentina:16 |
Ireland:15A |
Singapore:PG |
Netherlands:16 |
Germany:16 |
Australia:MA |
Italy:T |
UK:15 |
Finland:K-18 (self applied)
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Revealing mistakes: Guy turns the dome light off, claiming the need to conserve the battery. However, the high beams are on throughout the movie.
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[gives Girl dirty look after she just gets off the phone]
Girl: What?
Guy: If I have to drive, you have to talk to me.
Girl: What I'm the in flight entertainment?
Guy: That's how this ride sharing thing works ok? Division of labor. We split everything 50/50
Girl: Oh well, I got news for you, I don't get much more entertaining then when I'm on the phone.
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Girl: What?
Guy: If I have to drive, you have to talk to me.
Girl: What I'm the in flight entertainment?
Guy: That's how this ride sharing thing works ok? Division of labor. We split everything 50/50
Girl: Oh well, I got news for you, I don't get much more entertaining then when I'm on the phone.
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It's a shame more horror fans either aren't or can't see this movie, because it may very well signify a shift in the contemporary horror film (as of Spring 2007, when it was released).
The first "Saw" movie is usually seen as heralding a new direction and a new popularity in horror when it was first released and, despite the fact that the movie is principally a really twisty whodunit, it spawned dozens upon dozens of movies based on its essential formula: people (usually teenagers, often teen actors on their summer hiatus from their WB TV shows) in peril threatened with ghastly violence shown explicitly. The studios put any number of old movies into the remake machine in order to retrofit them with the new formula--and an R rating--to the point where these movies had the repetitive predictability of a Catholic mass.
Besides being bored with this genre, the massacres at Virginia Tech, I think, forced people to look to a new incarnation of horror--although, to be honest, I think current events have only a momentary impact on the movies. And that's where "Wind Chill" comes in.
"Wind Chill" is a movie which will disappoint you if you're hoping to see "Hostel"--a type of movie some people have compared to porn in its lack of substance apart from its depictions of explicit physical acts (in this case, violence). It's a thoughtful movie which takes the traditional elements of the most primitive horror movies and re-imagines them for our time. Think of the old James Whale haunted house movie, "The Old Dark House," and compare it to "Wind Chill" and you'll see how our oldest fears are presented anew--as if to say those old fears are never eliminated. This is the archetypal basis of the entire genre.
The movie isn't perfect--it's too talky, the exposition is piled on in the last third, the scares are rarely effective, and the resolution isn't quite plausible. But I thought it was fun and weird and full of unexpected depth.
I'm not certain in which direction "Wind Chill" is pointing the horror movie--maybe in the direction of the late 60s/early 70s "just slightly off" horror like "Rosemary's Baby" or the old "Night Gallery" TV series--rather than in the direction of grind house horror. But it's a worthwhile experiment.