Product Description

A CHILLING HORROR ABOUT THE TERRIFYING LEGACY OF A SINISTER ROAD THAT DATES BACK TO THE TERRIBLE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED THERE IN THE 1950S.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26466 in DVD
• Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
Good start to this discreet horror film, as one of those nightmare-fantasy road-movie ideas gets a tryout: What if the rideshare lift you got from a classmate over winter break turned really, really bad? Recently jilted college co-ed Emily Blunt finds herself catching a ride with a fellow student (Ashton Holmes) who seems to know much more about her than he should. It's a snowy night, and a turn-off from the main highway becomes just as crazy as any idiot could've told you it would be. Much of the remainder of the film seems to be a variation on the kind of urban legend (well, rural legend) that gets turned into a baleful country song. That's where it gets, literally, bogged down: the early scares and red herrings are well-managed, but when it comes time to actually supply an explanation for its apparitions, Wind Chill flops. The movie is produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's company, and directed by one of their protégés, Gregory Jacobs. The most effective thing about it (other than some half-formed allusions to Nietzsche, which might explain the central mystery) is the abrasive relationship between the two riders. Blunt (following her success in My Summer of Love and The Devil Wears Prada) creates that rarity, a young woman who does not seem to want to be loved by the audience. This nurtures some believable tension, after which the drifts begin to get thick. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Very Chilling (original, huh?)
Honestly, I thought this movie was fantastic. I have been excited to see this since I read about it in Fangoria a few months back. The only other film I had seen Emily Blunt in was Devil Wears Prada, which was not my cup of tea, but she was best part of that film. And there aren't a lot of people that 'do' creepy as good as Martin Donovan's cop; and he does not dissapoint in this either. Emily's co-star, Ashton Holmes, from History of Violence, was perfect as the shy, slightly stalkerish 'guy'. The non- use of character names for Blunt and Holmes' characters just adds to the erieness (?) of this film. However, the story is so friggin good that you don't notice these two don't have names! And the fact that these two are, for the most part, the only two faces on the screen for 90% of the film, is a statement to their acting ability that they can hold the audience. I felt kind of sad as I read some of the other reviews of this film, as I relaized that no one gets scared, or better, creeped out anymore by something as simple as a blurred figure walking by a wrecked car, with a girl inside, in the middle of a snowbank. Think about it, you're alone in a car that just crashed, on a desolate road mind you, into a snowbank. The driver leaves to find help, leaving you to attempt to tape up the gap in the window. Your breath has fogged the windows to the point that you cannot clearly see outside. There isn't a soul insight. Or so you think. Suddenly there is movement outside the window. You can't see who it is; assume it's your friend...except this figure keeps shuffling by the car...oblivious to it and the person inside. It's pitch black, snow is falling and you need help. What do you do? Obviously you have to see this scene to really get the idea of what these characters went through. But it was creepy as hell. I think, unfortunatly, that we have all become so desensitized (sp?) to blood and gore that when we see a horror film we expect bloodshed. And when we don't get it, then the movie is no good. think Phantoms with Affleck, McGowan and O'Toole. A phenomenal movie! Unreal sounds (C'mon, when has Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" given you chills, in a scary way?) and visuals etc...A town, completely void of humans, when only hours before it was a normal, operating town. Well, Wind Chill has a very similar feeling to Phantoms. It's just plain creepy and spooky. No, there isn't bloodshed, or chainsaws ripping through people, and mind you, I love those movies as well, but this does it with atmosphere, pure and simple. Please give this movie a chance. Don't go in with expectations other than "I wanna be scared and creeped out." If you expect Hostel or F13, you will be disappointed. And remember, The Changeling, The Others, and Ghost Story were horror movies too. Each without (or close to it) a drop of blood hitting the screen. They all did it with story, atmosphere and acting. And so does Wind Chill.

This was almost a 5 star
First of all, I liked this movie. Parts of it were telegraphed and some things that happened were a little hard to believe, but overall I liked it. So why only 3 stars? Well, after a pretty good thrill ride with some twists and some scares, we were given a pretty hokey ending like they had done everything they wanted to do and said: "Well, okay, let's end this puppy and get it out to distribution." A few other things that kind of tested the limits of belief I would put up with (even in a ghost story) sort of lowered my opinion of this movie. It was supposed to be 30 below zero outside. That's cold, and the characters were acting cold, but not 30 degree below zero cold. And when it's 30 below zero can you really keep the bright headlights on all night without the car running? What kind of a battery did that guy have in that thing? And how many girls have you gone out with who not only know how to tap into a telephone junction box on top of a telephone pole, but who would be able to climb the thing and tap into the box in 30 below zero weather? For that matter, how many guys could do that? Of those I've met in my lifetime, I would say perhaps....NONE!!! Okay, maybe one. Maybe. Despite the obvious flaws though, this was not a bad way to pass 90 minutes. The acting was decent and the plot was not bad. I don't know about owning it though. Probably not, but worth a rental.

"Chill Factor," "Every Breath You Take"/ Or Another 'Nightmare Before Christmas'
(3 1/2 *'s) George Clooney and Stephen Soderbergh have teamed up once again to produce `Wind Chill,' a horror movie that's more and less than one expects from a horror film. First of all, it's equally a survivor story and a stalker/romance as well as ghost story with a colorful history. Don't get me wrong, there are some scary moments in the movie, but the film admirably relies more on suspense and ambiguity in its presentation. All of it comes together in a way that's as invigorating as a cold, arctic blast from Canada.

The movie starts with some familiar on-the-road setup, complete with the car that breaks down and everything goes wrong. From there the developments are often different, however. Mysterious without names, the "Gal" (Emily Blunt) foregoes the plane ride from college exams before holiday break and decides to take the Greyhound bus. That is until she gets a text message during an exam inviting her to hook up with a ride from the posted message board. She finds someone who's headed to Delaware, so on a lark she calls to make the connection.

The "Guy" (Ashton Holmes) seems wholly accommodating, except they both are in many ways a mismatch. She finds him asleep at the wheel, waiting in the parking lot. She doesn't have much room to put her stuff, but has less room to complain when she shows up late in the first place. He shows a keen interest in her, even imposing on her cell phone calls and demanding her to engage in conversation as "her part of the deal".

Things aren't as they seem, and, ambiguity is a cornerstone to the movie's development. It turns out that he knows a great deal more about her than she would expect, and his interest becomes more than practical, especially when he refuses to let her pay her share of the gas money. When they come upon a remote gas station, gaunt, shadowy figures surround her. She gets an unnerving sense that the journey is stacked against her, but not all the evidence adds up. Is she a little paranoid and overly suspicious? Is he chivalrous in an old-fashioned, but patronizing way, or is he a stalker? When they leave the gas station, he abruptly turns out on remote Highway 606 much to her chagrin. Soon they get into an argument, one that escalates as an oncoming car, forces them off the road in an accident that has alarming consequences looming before them.

Stranded they are left to encounter a barren area that contains a haunted past, one that fills their dream life until reality and supernatural start to blur. More pressing is the need for the basics of survival as the radio announces the night will bring a 30 below wind chill, and they notice the gas tank is slowly leaking along with their prospects. In the meantime, not only is the area haunted with a violent past, but the "Guy" has been keeping secrets from the "Gal" that slowly unfurl like a weather vein.

`Wind Chill' is as much of a drama and a mystery as it is a horror film. Having seen the all-too-familiar developments of campfire horror films like 'Vacancy,' 'Wind Chill' is ahead of the front with a thoughtful, yet chilling development.