Wind Chill

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Wind Chill

R

2007

1h 27m

Horror

Drama

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Just before their university campus goes quiet for the winter break, a young woman (Emily Blunt) asks a classmate (Ashton Holmes) for a lift home. The two students set off on their trip and begin to get to know each other. But, when a reckless motorist drives them off the road, they find themselves stranded in the snow on a remote highway. As the night grows colder, the two are confronted by a horde of menacing apparitions -- and struggle to escape with their lives.

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Critics Consensus

Wind Chill is a ghost story with a clunky and unpolished script that fails to keep viewers in suspense.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

London Evening Standard

08/03/2007

1/5

As clunky as it is emotionally unconvincing.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

08/03/2007

The passage to ex-rental DVD bins will be swift for this lethally pretentious bit of low-rent schlock.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

08/03/2007

1/5

Ropey, derivative and very, very boring horror-thriller.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

12/31/2023

5/10

There is a sort of cod-Stephen King kind of horror laid over Wind Chill, but it feels messy and unfocused.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

08/11/2008

2.5/4

...a refreshingly adult horror effort that boasts a pair of phenomenal lead performances.

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Brian Holcomb

CinemaBlend

05/02/2008

3.5/5

Imagine a campfire story told by Jack London after downing a bottle of Jack Daniels. The chilly atmosphere would be in full force but the plotting might be a bit punch drunk.

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@RT12611919 Dec 8

This is a great movie, but SPOILER ALERT, it is a very sad movie. It will ruin Brenda Lee's Rockin Around the Christmas Tree for you as well. It's actually really good, and the acting is amazing. The plot is pretty good too, and there are several hints at the beginning of the movie that are pretty good. Some of the stuff is a little silly, like SPOILER ALERT her climbing the pole, but at the point where she is, one can understand how desperate she is. Anyway, it is a great movie, but very, very sad. It is not funny, not stupid, and there is nothing to laugh at. It is Christmas-themed, so extra sad. You identify with the characters, and I was remembering a winter ride where people carpooled towards Boston and we dropped someone off in a rural area, had some flashbacks. The mood is done well, the scenery is really good, all the details are well thought out. Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes do such a good job! Again, it's a sad movie. Watch it for a sad Christmas horror movie.

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Bill T.

@btreakle Nov 21

Wind chill:is a movie starring Emily Blunt from 2007. This story is about a boy and a girl we’re riding together in sub freezing weather and the boy for whatever reason decides to take what he says is a shortcut to the young girl’s home then they are run off the road by a hit and run driver and soon discovered that their shortcut actually is the wrong way to have gone. And this is their story as it unfolds and soon find themselves in a above all from 1953 were a similar accident had taken place. I don’t recommend this film for children under 14 but I do recommend to anybody that loves Emily Blunt. I give this film a 7 out of 10 stars I enjoyed it very much.

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Mark B

@Mbindon Nov 5

It works well until it does not. They had a good premise, good set up and acting but just could not bring it home.

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Melissa L

@Agent99 Aug 13

Bittersweet story with a twisty ending. I recommend it.

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Michaël L

@RT77787213 03/14/2025

Movie was really damn good until the part with ghosts...remove the ghost aspects of it and it would have been a perfectly good ride

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Rich M

@RT78918431 01/30/2025

Leave it back in 2007. Great premise. Does not deliver. Could have done so much more with this movie, but they just churned out a boring, poorly scripted, lump of kaka.

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Synopsis

Just before their university campus goes quiet for the winter break, a young woman (Emily Blunt) asks a classmate (Ashton Holmes) for a lift home. The two students set off on their trip and begin to get to know each other. But, when a reckless motorist drives them off the road, they find themselves stranded in the snow on a remote highway. As the night grows colder, the two are confronted by a horde of menacing apparitions -- and struggle to escape with their lives.

Director: Gregory Jacobs
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Ben Cosgrove, Peter Czernin
Screenwriter: Steven Katz, Joe Gangemi
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Production Co: Revolution Studios, Blueprint Pictures, Section Eight Ltd.
Rating: R (Some Violence|Disturbing Images)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.1K
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS

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