A nurse taking care of her daughter's mysterious affliction struggles to hide her secrets when uninvited strangers take shelter in her house during a lethal blizzard.
The movie isn't bad, but it's right in that middling place where I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it, but I'll probably not watch it again. I'm always here for a horror movie set at the holidays, thought it doesn't play a major role. The story really laid out too many strings and then couldn't tie them all together well enough in the end. I fault it for this, but only so much, as too often movies lay out way too much and remove the tension of the unknown. The movie starts laying that subtle groundwork of a creature feature, but it gets a bit all over the place and the 'twist' ending lacks the necessary setup to feel it's full impact. It needed a sprinkle more here and there to better setup the mothers insanity. In the end, I was left with too many questions and not in a good way. The particular effects were a pleasant inclusion, but they can't save the overall experience.
The movie isn't bad, but it's right in that middling place where I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it, but I'll probably not watch it again. I'm always here for a horror movie set at the holidays, thought it doesn't play a major role. The story really laid out too many strings and then couldn't tie them all together well enough in the end. I fault it for this, but only so much, as too often movies lay out way too much and remove the tension of the unknown. The movie starts laying that subtle groundwork of a creature feature, but it gets a bit all over the place and the 'twist' ending lacks the necessary setup to feel it's full impact. It needed a sprinkle more here and there to better setup the mothers insanity. In the end, I was left with too many questions and not in a good way. The particular effects were a pleasant inclusion, but they can't save the overall experience.