Wind Chill

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Year:	2007
Country of origin:	USA / UK
Director:	Gregory Jacobs
Genre:	Spooky isolationist horror
Starring:	Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486051/
Tagline:	Catch Your Death
Favourite line:	"You're not going anywhere!"

Gregory Jacobs' Wind Chill is a creepy, if not altogether convincing affair.

The plot:
An unnamed girl (Emily Blunt) needs to get back to Delaware for the Christmas holiday. She's at college, so takes a look at the shared driving board, and is pleased to find an ideal candidate in the form of an unnamed guy (Ashton Holmes).
The pair get off to an uncomfortable start, personalities clashing somewhat, not helped by the fact that Girl thinks that Guy is being a touch deceptive. Her suspicions are further compounded when he turns off the main road and starts down what he claims to be a short cut. Suddenly, another car appears and crashes into them spinning, them off the road - it's snowing heavily, by the way - and, as they struggle to survive the bitter cold, strange and sinister events begin to unfold around them.

It's a neat set-up, and both performers deliver adequately, albeit Blunt's Girl coming across as unnecessarily hostile and rather grating to begin with.
As the plot slowly reveals itself, there are moments to unnerve, and a suitably creepy atmosphere is forged, though the movie does begin to labour towards the end, the plot not quite having the courage of it's convictions.
Still, an absorbing and intelligent slice of supernatural spookiness which is nearly very good indeed.