Wind Chill (2007), horror movie which I’ve watched 3 times in these last 3 days. I was lucky, got a movie package from subscribing Indovision, I watched this movie in Cinemax. The story is about 2 college students whom on their way to Delaware in Christmas. They apparently trapped in the Highway 606 which is, known as legendary Dangerous road because of so many strange accidents in there. In this Movie there are no character’s names, it’s just mentioned the girl and the guy.
The story began when the main character, the girl (Emily Blunt) had to go to her parent’s house at christmas in Delaware, Pennsylvania. Then she joined the ride sharing with the character as we call the guy (Ashton Holmes), who apparently didn’t have the same hometown, I mean he just the girl’s admirer and had been known everything about the girl, her hometown, her trip plan to Delaware, her favourite foods and etc. He just wanted to be close with the girl by driving her to Delaware.
At first, everything seemed to be fine, it changed when the guy took the shortcut through the highway 606. Suddenly, some car ride in front of them and like wanted to hit them, so their car banged on the road side. The engine was broken and the gas was leaked so the heater stopped whether the temperature was minus 30 degree. They stayed in the car and ain’t have enough food or warm clothes and in the mean time, the ghosts from the people who died on those road keep on disturbed them, especially the bad cop. There’s always a sign before the cop came, the radio would played some 50s song.
The legend began from the bad cop who lived around 50s who liked to stop the people who passed the road and killed them for purpose such as the negro drugs smuggler, the woman with stalled car, and two racing teenagers which made him killed because of the car accident sourced from his drank. There were 4 priests who always watched what he have done. At his death those priests didn’t want to help him and let him burned to died. After the cop died, many accidents happened on that road, and those priests died on their bed on winter 1961.
And so on, the girl and the guy tried to survive. Desperate, scare, intrigue and romance, put them on together. Everything ended when the guy was apparently suffered severe inside bleeding because of the accident, he’s dying. Near there, there was a phone line connection, so the girl tried to connect the guy’s telephone to that phone line connection.
Before she went out, romance happened, and this was my favorite scene, the boy told the girl about the different things he want to do. He would come approach the girl after college and say hi, because all this time, he got no gut to get close with the girl. At that time, the girl’s feeling had turned from the scared of the guy because he was a stucker to be some kinda care or love maybe, and then they kissed. That was romantic I guess…
She got through on the telephone and called 911, but when she came back to the car, the guy had passed away. Damn, I thought, that was really close. Then, she waited in the car desperately. After a while, the help came, there was a man with snow car and then brought them to the Hospital. Unfortunately, on the way, that cop came back again and made them crashed. Weird things happened the girl and the man seemed like went back to the time when the cop got killed. And then it’s like recur event like the guy and the girl had ever talked about, the girl suddenly came back to the car after the guy died. And then the soul of the guy led her to the gas station near there to get helped. And that’s the end.
This is a very recommended movie, another way to make horror without hundred liters of blood or some sadistic scenes. Good acts and unique, there’s no name be called in this movie except the helping man’s friend, Tom. I’ve also read the comments from imdb, it’s quite positive even there are many goofs in this movie. From me, I gave an 8 from 10.
My other favorite scenes are, when the guy’s hands were freeze on the crow bar after helped the girl from the cop. His hand was frozen and the blood couldn’t flow, then the girl warmed his hands by put them on her stomach. And also after the girl got helped and was in the ambulance, she saw the guy’s body carried by the coroners and then she looked on the guy’s photo on her phone that she ever captured on the trip. Suddenly, her tears were just came out, without voices, that’s a cool and touchy way to cry I think.
