Although set in the barren frozen wastelands of Anarctica, The Thing was actually filmed in LA soundstage that were refrigerated down to a bone-chilling-for LA, at least-40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Based on a 1938 novella called Who Goes There?, the film involves a group of researchers in Antartica who are gradually terrorized by a shape-shifting alien who “assimilates” into the bodies of its victims.
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Roger Ebert calls the film “cold and frightening,” adding that “The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.” The Thing (1982) John Carpenter’s The Thing takes place in Antarctica’s wintry landscape.ĭirector John Carpenter has said that this is his personal favorite of all the films he’s directed, which is why he was audibly displeased when it was widely panned by critics and ignored by moviegoers upon its initial release. In Stanley Kubrick’s Meisterwerk of psychological horror set in a snowbound Hotel in Oregon during mid-winter, themes of geographic isolation and bone-chilling temperatures intermesh with the story of a cold, dysfunctional family who slowly go mad as they house-sit the facility which has been shuttered for the winter. The Shining (1980) Horrific forebodings: The Shining takes place during a massive snowstorm in an isolated hotel. The Great Silence is set in the fictional town of Snow Hill, and the “snow” in the movie is actually gallons of shaving cream. One lone vigilante-deprived of the ability to speak since birth-roams the mountainsides in the midst of 1898’s grim, brutal winter, protecting civilians from roving outlaws.
The Great Silence ( 1968) The Great Silence: One of the few “Spaghetti Westerns” that was actually filmed in the American West.Īs opposed to most Spaghetti Westerns-in which the Spanish desert served as the American West-this obscure masterpiece directed by Sergio Corbucci and scored by the immortal Sergio Leone was filmed in the Utah mountains during winter. All these films are made all the more amusing when you’re snowed in. Here we’ll survey all the best winter horror movies ever made. More than Christmas movies, winter horror movies and winter thrillers all tend to have several common tropes: snowstorms, isolation, surviving in the cold, and general ghostliness or ghastliness that fills the setting with bone-chilling horror. A killer disposes of a body on a cold winter night in Colorado in Cold Pursuit. This list will focus on a few of those films, but mostly on films where the winter landscape plays a critical role in what makes the movie scary in the first place. Winter is also the holiday season and there is a whole subgenre of horror movies dedicated to Christmas and the mythical winter creature Krampus, otherwise known as the evil Santa Claus. A villainous character in the film The Snowman based on a novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø. The hallmark horror movie set in winter is Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic version of Stephen King’s novel The Shining (1980), a film that is about writer’s block and the isolation of being stuck in the middle of nowhere in winter. Winter-themed horror movies are thus a spooky setting for scary movies to unfold within. Pictured above: The Overlook Hotel in The Shining, one of the best winter horror movies of all time. I mean, do you think if Stephen King was born in sunny California instead of frosty Maine, he would still be the greatest horror storyteller of all time? The dark and cold environment of Maine shaped him and his stories. The days are literally darker, and the cold temperatures lead to a maddening cabin fever. Plant life turns brown, as if dead forever. While beautiful, cold weather is also creepy.
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