Wind Chill

Name: Wind Chill
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: April 27, 2007
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Ashton Holmes, Emily Blunt

2007

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: April 27, 2007 | R

Starring: Ashton Holmes, Emily Blunt

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

Director: Gregory Jacobs

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Lou Lumenick

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! Read full review

Frank Scheck

For all its flaws, is an often spooky and imaginative ghost story that contains a genuine creepiness. Read full review

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. Read full review

Andy Webster

A moody, spooky tale, rendered with laudable economy. Read full review

Maitland McDonagh

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. Read full review

Justin Chang

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. Read full review

Scott Foundas

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. Read full review

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LucasR.

Mar 24, 2008

Very decent film, Emily Blunt is in a horror movie!!! And she rocks!!

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snewgoblin

Jul 31, 2007

Although it's a classic horror theme centered on a haunted place, the dialogue between two main characters is so well written, that you have to live this film. In the end you don't know why, but you remember this creepy story as a ultimate experience. And the best thing in this Although it's a classic horror theme centered on a haunted place, the dialogue between two main characters is so well written, that you have to live this film. In the end you don't know why, but you remember this creepy story as a ultimate experience. And the best thing in this movie is the perfect acting performance by Emily Blunt. She's really the star of this horror. Totally believable and so charming that she saves this not so horror movie and makes it worthseeing even twice or more times.… Expand

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Sataeon

Jun 6, 2013

A very fine film well directed with brilliant eerie atmospheres (try to imagine yourself there, in the stead of the characters) and beautiful sceneries (when it's daylight)...The story makes pretty much sense and iin a certain way, is a great reminder of what humility and kindness should beA very fine film well directed with brilliant eerie atmospheres (try to imagine yourself there, in the stead of the characters) and beautiful sceneries (when it's daylight)...The story makes pretty much sense and iin a certain way, is a great reminder of what humility and kindness should be about (or am i too twisted for this world to have taken this kind of hints)...At least you can see the moral of the story... not "don't know what you've got till it's gone"....with the wind … Expand

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Broyax

Jun 1, 2020

C'est un petit nanar de derrière les **** mais on y jette volontiers un oeil avant de le balancer au feu vu qu'il y a Emily jolie dedans ! on est en fait agréablement surpris pendant presque la moitié je crois même si ça commence à pédaler dans la semoule... à se demander quand est-ce que leC'est un petit nanar de derrière les **** mais on y jette volontiers un oeil avant de le balancer au feu vu qu'il y a Emily jolie dedans ! on est en fait agréablement surpris pendant presque la moitié je crois même si ça commence à pédaler dans la semoule... à se demander quand est-ce que le film ou ce prétendu thriller va entrer vraiment dans le vif du sujet...!

Hélas, il recule encore avant de mieux sauter dans le nanar pur jus et l'écriture du stagiaire qui a boulotté le scénar à la dernière minute (dans le bus vraisemblablement) nous saute alors aux yeux et au visage. Oui, ça tourne tout-à-coup à l'ésotérisme de pacotille et au mauvais épisode d'X-Files désordonné et foireux, puis ça s'enlise comme ça jusqu'au bout...

C'est dommage, car on avait des doutes sur le petit con ou on se demandait quand est-ce qu'ils allaient se retrouver dans une cabane de dégénérés, bien ficelés et attendant -pas sagement- d'être préparés pour le dîner... mais je confonds avec un autre film, je crois ! Emily est extra en tout cas (déjà !).… Expand

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oliver1h

May 17, 2013

Only Emily Blunt saves this mediocre ghost story from being a total disaster (She manages to elevate it to be simply bad). Put together you usual ghost story cliches, add some rather weak acting, a puny villain, nonsense plot and you will have Wind Chill.

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JamesIrish68

Dec 27, 2018

An interesting premise which started well if slowly. It literally lost the plot about a third of the way in and devolved into silly and stupid. Cheap and sloppy too. No breath fog inside of a supposedly frozen ice box of a car is just glaringly bad direction.

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stevel.

Mar 21, 2008

I honestly can't think of a worst movie-unbelievable plot with Disneyish Haunted Mansion ghosts-my teenagers and myself were rooting for the villain to kill the 2 leads.Really-who would spend the night in their car(with a complete stranger) after an accident when a gas station is a I honestly can't think of a worst movie-unbelievable plot with Disneyish Haunted Mansion ghosts-my teenagers and myself were rooting for the villain to kill the 2 leads.Really-who would spend the night in their car(with a complete stranger) after an accident when a gas station is a couple of miles back up the road? Laughably bad, but not as funny as Plan 9 from Outerspace. ANY critic that gave this a remote favorable review should be immediately fired. This film is another mindless story which appeals to a teenager who has a phobia about rural America. For a real horror story check out Milwaukee's homicide rate and avoid stories about a killer ghost in a blizzard.… Expand

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