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Wind Chill
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.
2007 · Directed by Gregory Jacobs · 91 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
There Are Worse Things Than Dying.
Plot
A student ("Girl") at a Pennsylvania university finds through the campus rideshare board a ride home to Wilmington, Delaware for Christmas. She joins another student ("Guy"), who is driving home to Wilmington and seems to know a lot about her. They have a class together, but she never noticed him.
They stop at an isolated gas station so that Girl can use the bathroom.
In the restroom, the door gets stuck, and while pounding on it, she hears Guy and the clerk talking and acting as if they do not hear her. She manages to force the door open and angrily asks them why they did not let her out. The two men seem puzzled.
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Crew
- Written by: Joe Gangemi, Steven Katz
- Cinematography: Dan Laustsen
- Edited by: Lee Percy
- Music: Clint Mansell
- Production design: Howard Cummings
- Produced by: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Cast
- Emily Blunt as Girl
- Ashton Holmes as Guy
- Martin Donovan as Highway Patrolman
- Ned Bellamy as Snowplow Driver
- Ian A. Wallace as Priest
- Donny Lucas as Stranger
- Chelan Simmons as Blonde Girl
- Darren Moore as Clerk
- Linden Banks as Proctor
- Caz Odin Darko as Teenage Boy #1
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: TriStar Pictures, Blueprint Pictures, Section Eight
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $285,060
- Themes: cold, winter, holiday, paranoia, supernatural, snow, crash, trapped in car
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