Dead Cold (1995)

As is unsubtly implied by the title, this is a landlocked rip-off of Dead Calm. The first hour is an exact recreation as screenwriter Chris Mulkey and his wife Lysette Anthony retreat to a cabin in the wilds to get over a trauma, and are latched onto by a smooth-talking redneck (Peter Dobson) - a murderous psychopath. At the point where Dobson leaves Mulkey for dead in the snow and heads back to the cabin to rape Anthony, the plot diverges from our expectations though not in an especially interesting manner. **
KIM NEWMAN

First Published In: Empire no.82 (April 1996) p.109

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