Wind Chill

If you're a fan of ghost stories this is one of the best ones I have seen in years. The story primarily takes place on a deserted highway road on a winter's night. I have actually watched this movie more than once and still found it interesting. My girlfriend jumped on several occassions. I would recommend it as a nice couples bundle up under the covers on the couch "good scare" movie.

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 s... Read more

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 l... Read more

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 colleg... Read more

I enjoyed the first 45 minutes of this film. It made me interested enough to want to keep watching. It really starts falling apart though in the last half hour - it simply makes no sense. The scares come cheap (lots of lame "boo" moments) and the whole ghost angle is poorly conceived and not particularly compelling. It's a shame.

I really liked this movie and never heard much about it when it was in the theater. It was creepy and well acted. The quality of the film was very good and the casting was excellent. I really liked the dialogue which many times in movies like this is silly. The dialogue was very realistic and well emoted. I think they did an excellent job and I am surprised I had not heard more about it.