Macabre…ish Horror Review: Winter Horror Picks

We have a lot of good Winter horror!

 

Frozen, about some vacationing friends who begged their way on to some slopes and were immediately forgotten on the lift. Not only was the place closed for a long holiday but there’s also storms brewing. Desperate times called for desperate measures and it was painful to watch.

 

 

 

Then we have the Norwegian winter slasher, Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt), vacationers take refuge in an abandoned lodge after one of them breaks his leg. There they find old secrets and an old horror. People have been going missing for years in the area, starting with a little boy. And it appears they found the old horror’s lair. There are three in this franchise, a sequel and prequel.

 

 

 

If you’re a zombie fan then we can’t forget about Dead Snow. A long time ago Nazis came to the area plundering and pillaging, and otherwise terrorizing the locals but they were not prepared for the brutal winter and they were claimed by the mountains. But as it turns out, one thing can wake them from their deaths, the ‘theft’ of the treasure they once stole from the locals. Hordes of nazi zombies will rise and the vacationers are all but powerless to stop it. There are two in this franchise and the sequel is far more of a comedy horror than the first.

 

 

 

 

The Snowman is a crime thriller about a killer known as The Snowman Killer. All of his victims are found headless and when their heads are found, it’s always on top of a snowman. Except once, when a cop’s head was replaced by a Snowman’s head. He was a suspect for a short time but his untimely and disturbing murder changed that. In front of the victims’ homes, a small snowman always marks the spot.

 

 

 

In the mood for vampires? I got you! Frostbite (Frostbiten) is a Swedish horror about a doctor relocating to a town that gets no sunlight during the winter and it just so happens to be where a vampire is being housed, studied and blood is being replicated in pill form. And those pills turn up at a party and becomes ground zero of the outbreak.

 

 

 

 

Then we have Centigrade about a pregnant couple getting trapped inside their car during a snow storm. They had hope of rescue until a plow truck covered their vehicle in snow on the side of a mountain road and then their battery died. They are truly on their own, with no food or water, do they wait or do they try to dig their way out and trek to safety?