Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Wind Chill is a modestly competent supernatural thriller that benefits from its claustrophobic premise and committed performances from its two leads, but ultimately fails to distinguish itself. The plot is thin and relies heavily on familiar ghost story tropes without adding meaningful depth or tension-building. The cinematography captures the cold, isolated atmosphere reasonably well but rarely transcends functional filmmaking. The concept of being trapped in a wintry ghost-haunted road has been explored before and the execution here is fairly by-the-numbers. The ending feels abrupt and undercooked, failing to deliver satisfying resolution to the supernatural mystery it sets up.