From haunted hotels to creatures that emerge from the snow, the subgenre of winter terror offers cinematic experiences that combine the external cold with the internal chill. Below, we explore a selection of films that encapsulate the best of horror in icy settings, ideal for a winter night.
THE SENT OF EVIL
Director: Oz Perkins
Joan. Kat. Rose. Three girls brought together by a series of mysterious events. While Joan traverses icy roads in the middle of the night, Kat and Rose wait at a girls' school for their parents to come pick them up for winter break. As the minutes pass, a disturbing fatality takes over the place.
THE SHINING
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Jack Torrance moves, with his wife and son, to the impressive Overlook Hotel in Colorado, to take care of its maintenance during the winter season, when it remains closed and isolated by the snow. His idea is to write his novel while taking care of the facilities during those long and lonely winter months, but since his arrival at the hotel, Jack begins to suffer disturbing personality disorders, at the same time that various phenomena begin to happen in the place. paranormal.
MISERY
Director: Rob Reiner
A writer named Paul Sheldon (James Caan) has been wasting his talent for years with romantic stories, of great commercial success, whose protagonist is a woman named Misery. Determined to put an end to this situation, he kills the character and takes refuge in Colorado to write a serious novel. Once his work is finished, he starts to return, but on a mountain road, he loses control of his car and suffers a serious accident. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), a brusque and impetuous woman, a great admirer of his, rescues him, takes him home and takes care of him carefully. Obsessed with the character of Misery, she retains Sheldon to force him to write a new story in which she resurrects the character.
THE THING
Director: John Carpenter
At an experimental station in Antarctica, a team of researchers discovers a strange entity from space, which according to all indications has remained buried in the snow for more than 100,000 years. When it thaws, it undergoes a surprising metamorphosis…
ZOMBIES NAZIS 2
Director: Tommy Wirkola
The putrid Colonel Herzog returns to the fray, ready to hunt down Martin, the only survivor of Dead Snow. The threat of Nazi zombies is even greater, but this time the allied forces will have the help of a North American commando specialized in exterminating the living dead.
THE SINISTER CABIN
Director: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
Aidan and Mia are reluctant to accept Grace, their father's new girlfriend, but when the children and the woman find themselves trapped and locked in a house in the middle of a frozen landscape, they will have no choice but to live together, while the terrible Grace's past comes to light. As in their previous film, Goodnight Mommy, Austrians Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz barely need two children and a woman to make one of the horror films of the year.
LET ME IN
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Oskar, a shy 12-year-old boy, bullied at school by some classmates, befriends Eli, a mysterious new neighbor his age, whose arrival coincides with a series of unexplained deaths. Even though Oskar thinks she is a vampire, he tries to put their friendship above his fear.
BELOW ZERO
Director: Adam Green
Three snowboarding enthusiasts are riding the chairlift at a ski resort, looking forward to the last descent down the slope before heading home. Suddenly, the chairlift comes to a complete stop. Not a soul around. Everything gets worse when the station's lights go out, never to be turned on again until the next weekend. Then they will have to do unthinkable things in order to survive certain death by freezing. But also, they will soon realize that the cold is not their worst enemy.
SHIVERS
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Desperate to get to Delaware for Christmas, a college student (Emily Blunt) travels with a strange classmate (Ashton Holmes). As she realizes that her traveling companion knows too many things about her, he decides to take a shortcut along a remote country road. Caught in a tremendous snow storm. They soon discover that the cold is the least of their worries.
WHITEOUT
Director: Gregory Jacobs
At a scientific base in Antarctica, in the most isolated and inhospitable place on the planet, Agent Carrie Stetko, the only law enforcement representative on site, is in charge of security. For the last 2 years his work has been marked by tedium but right now, when he is about to finally return home, a pilot discovers a body in the middle of the snow and everything indicates that it is a murder. With all personnel about to evacuate the base before the arrival of a gigantic storm, the culprit is just a few hours away from escaping. Time is running out for Agent Stetko.
