Metacritic Film

Wind Chill

Starring Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Ned Bellamy, Martin Donovan, and Chelan Simmons

MPAA RATING: R for some violence and disturbing images

TriStar Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller
87 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters April 27, 2007

A college student shares a ride home with a stranger who may or may not be another student in this horror film.

WRITTEN BY
Joe Gangemi
Steven Katz

DIRECTED BY
Gregory Jacobs

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

52 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 New York Post
Wind Chill is very much Blunt's show - there are no other major characters save Holmes - and she even gets to climb a telephone pole in her Prada heels. Brava!
70 The Hollywood Reporter
For all its flaws, is an often spooky and imaginative ghost story that contains a genuine creepiness.
60 The New York Times Andy Webster
A moody, spooky tale, rendered with laudable economy.
60 Los Angeles Times Ed Gonzalez
This isn't merely a horror film about things going bump in the night, but a study of the effects of desolation on our sense of personal consciousness.
50 TV Guide
Despite its failings, Wind Chill represents a road rarely taken by 21st-century American horror films: Original (in the non-remake sense of the term), subtle and restrained.
50 Variety
This intermittently effective thriller serves as a rickety vehicle for its two perfectly cast leads, working better as a slow-thawing two-hander than as a chilly ghost story.
40 LA Weekly
Jacobs and his writers are notably more interested in creepy atmosphere -- and in contemplating the order of the universe -- than in jump-in-your-seat jolts. But well before day breaks, it's the movie’s plot (which would have made for an outstanding Outer Limits episode) that has come to seem stuck in an endless loop.

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