Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Wow! With Cham Giobbi, Joe Rhodes, Diana Harrington, Steve Schnell. Before she knows it she finds herself in the middle of a nightmare where dark secrets are unveiled and horrible things begin to happen to her. A murder. Plays out like a Hitchcock thriller. And the performances from Mary Steenburgen and Roddy McDowell are both solid. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2016. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Low-budget '80s sleaze that should have been shoveled into a furnace long ago. But the film shoot takes a sordid turn as Katie begins to understand that her role is simply a pawn in Lewis' twisted blackmail games. The cinematography is spot on here, nothing feels unnatural or poorly lit and although most of the movie takes place in a relatively small home in the woods, it never feels too cramped or over saturated. It’s a 2.5-star rounded up to 3-stars and any reference to Hitchcock would tend to make you expect a much better film than this one. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. As fear grips the small town of Evansville, Indiana, detectives launch a desperate manhunt for a deranged killer. The couple's behind on rent and other bills, so, Katie feels the pinch to get an acting job which will help them, financially. Higher production values, if compared to the other Slasher Classics Collection titles! Not bad at all. When they arrive at the secluded home of Dr. Joseph Lewis[citation needed] (Jan Rubeš), he graciously welcomes her. At the open-call audition, in a room full of other women aspiring for the job, Katie is called in to be interviewed by a Mr. Murray (Roddy McDowall), who hires her immediately. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her barricade undisturbed, Katie quickly finds the secret door and a staircase to the attic, which has a working phone. Never fear, boys and girls -- Katie has a chain-smoking he-man of a huzz-bahnd who will ride to her rescue -- after she's knifed all the villains to death. Likewise, I cannot fathom what possessed Steenburgen, then a fairly recent Oscar-winner, to take on something so tawdry and amateurish. The beginning of it has such a old-school noir feel to it and the music does a great job of setting up the ambiguous pretext for our plot. (Among its other deficiencies, DoW glorifies smoking.) He faulted the lengthy build-up to the final confrontation, specifying, "An hour's worth of exposition is a long wait, and if the payoff isn't quite worth it, it is fun. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2018. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good thriller with no gore & good storyline. Travelling or based outside United States? Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2016. A locker full of money. Katie realizes that Mr. Murray has drugged her hot chocolate. Select the department you want to search in. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Katie is confused from a sedative and Dr. Lewis claims that she is his patient, so the police leave without much of an investigation. I've loved the film Black Christmas and wanted something similar to watch at this time of year and I found it in Dead of Winter. It's hard to believe that the director of Bonnie & Clyde, Little Big Man, and Night Moves would spin out a piece of trash a la Dead of Winter, yet here we are. Steenburgen & Penn must have been desparate for a paycheck, Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018. Penn reluctantly agreed.[1]. Producer John Bloomgarden took over directing in the interim. Mr. Murray slips the videotape through the mail slot. Not the best acting all around, but it's good enough. Dead of Winter has a 77% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 13 reviews. In the wilderness of Colorado teams compete in a Geocache treasure hunt that suddenly becomes a deadly game of survival. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The shoot goes well. Low-budget '80s sleaze that should have been shoveled into a furnace long ago. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020. Looking through a list of casting calls, Katie circles one: a vaguely-worded description for a lead actress, who must be available immediately, and willing to travel. Rob asks where she is, but Katie can only remember vague landmarks about the drive upstate. There's a problem loading this menu right now. As she collapses, she sees the body of Julie Rose. Not to say it's not creepy because there are some really dark chilling moments. I was personally most fond of the actor playing the manservant, he did a great job as his character seemed to evolve with the plot. Directed by Justin Lee Stanley. During his explanation, the police arrive. Rob orders her to call the police, which she does. Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020, Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018. As she anxiously smokes, she tells the other party she will wait only a few more minutes. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes a good thriller with no gore & good storyline. The movie is packed with twists and the more complex it gets the less scary it is. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. She plays 2 or 3 different roles -- flopping as the ingenue Katie and surprisingly doing well as the turban-clad villain Evelyn.

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