Snow Falls

When a group of college friends go to one of their parent's cottages, at a ski resort called Snow Falls, for New Year's Eve...they end up getting trapped, with no power, little food, and a supply of firewood that they are burning through quick. However, they still have a safe house...and blankets...and each other... So when the one girl- traumatized by the dying words of her mother- takes over, with all these rules, designed to prevent hypothermia...all logic- and any semblance of common sense- is just thrown out the window. Because...though, it would no doubt be cold. It wouldn't be to the point where they are actually hypothermic. So the fact that she suggests they "don't fall asleep", only acts to make matters worse...as being sleep deprived would go to adversely effect their psychological state. Which is what the entire premise of this film is based on. As they can't even go three damn days before they all start tripping out. Which is just as ridiculous as not falling asleep at all during that timeframe. Because, they are quite literally surrounded by trees...yet make no attempt to collect firewood at any point. Which would have solved all of their nonsensical problems. Not to mention...THERE IS BARELY EVEN ANY FRIGGING SNOW...!?!? For anyone who lives in an area where it snows...you'll look at the rate at which the CGI (ugh) snow is coming down...and be like...hey, how pleasant. The filmmakers make zero effort to make it seem like they are actually stuck in a blizzard (the snow doesn't even go above the soles of their boots ffs). So it's simply laughable. And this is before they introduce the equally absurd theme of them thinking the snowflakes are infected by some sort of virus. Which doesn't even make any damn sense. Their paranoid delusions are, apparently, a result of the sleep deprivation...while their sleep deprivation is all based on one chick's idiotic direction...and them collectively being too stupid to collect firewood, despite wandering around outside amongst a plethora of very accessible trees. Literally nothing in this film makes sense. If the writers had half a brain, they would have just made the whole thing a cannibal flick...because the only actual problem they have is a lack of food...and even that is giving them the benefit of the doubt, because they still have food at the end!!! The entire plot here is so stupid...it's flabbergasting. Leaving me genuinely confused about what the creators were thinking when they constructed it. Is the whole point of this film to frustrate you, with how frustratingly dumb these characters are? Cause if that's not it...then I just don't get it. Hopefully this isn't foreshadowing what kind of year 2023 is going to be like for horror. Because this move is idiotic. Talk about a bad start to the New Year... 1 out of 10.

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They have heat....... the entire movie is ignorant and mindless. The medical student would never make it in real life and should have been sacrificed and eaten. Whoever wrote the film should stick to basic children's books. There are multiple bedrooms throughout this big Ole cabin with thick blankets besides the fact they have gas as heat source. One of these clowns turns on stove, burns his hand and they magically forget about the gas stove and keep rambling how they are hypothermia after one day. There is a forest full of wood, house full of wood, plenty of alcohol to start fire besides fact THEY HAVE GAS FOR HEAT!

First 20 minutes was okay. Then bam power shortage and no gas in the generator. Long story short, it's been a whole (gasp!) 2 (two) days since the electricity was gone and those college kids started thinking about imminent (sic!) death from hypothermia and maybe starving, aha. There is plenty of snow around, you can boil it and survive a month at least without food at all, just on water. Also, you can watch a bunch of YouTube videos, like "She has been Living in a Cabin in the Forests of Sweden for 8 years Home Tour" - there is a room tour in a cabin without electricity. Of course, you can get hypothermia indoors, in a bad shack with huge holes, without availability to cover those holes, without clothes, blankets and with no heat at all. But, in a well-builded house, with a fireplace, tons of insulatable materials, the whole forest and trees and bushes around and wooden furniture in the house, unlimited water source from crappy CGI-snow, a med college student came up with a brilliant idea about sleep deprivation to avoid this (imminent, duh) hypothermia. I don't know, maybe they are on some sort of heavy drugs? Looks like the scenarist (director himself) was cutting logical corners in the script too much, going to the point of "oh I will show a cool movie about sleep deprivation". If you try to believe in this film and watch it till the end, there is bad news for you - the CGI-snow will become more crappier at the end.

First off where is the storm? You think after a snow storm you wouldn't even be able to see the snowman or at least put 5inchs on him to represent a storm. Also why are they staying awake? They could of brought wet wood inside for the fire. We do it all the time it burns. Also you can dry it by the fire 🔥. Why don't they take the doors off the hinge and you have plenty of wood that's easy to replace. There are so many things to burn it's ridiculous they would have hypothermia. I can't even finish the movie because it's so annoyingly bad. You have college kids acting like 12 year olds who have no life skills or knowledge. No one is this stupid at 22. Who wrote this?!

Nowadays when you roll the dice on one of these indie movies I feel like there is a 90% chance I won't be able to make it to the end. Well I got through this movie and even though it wasn't great, it wasn't horrible either. The acting was good and the story though not original was okay. There were so many holes in the story that if you didn't look passed them you definitely would have turned it off. Here's just a few observations.. It feels like all these characters were either Millennials or Gen Z as their inability to make decisions was quite comical! First, all the furniture burns!! Your parents would rather have alive than keep that table! Also, they had days, daylight and a hatchet. Plus all the trees outside and yet that never was an option? They pretty much made all the male characters beta males who other than driving to the cabin and whining about their situation were entirely useless!! Still though, I have seen much, much worse! So if you're bored and looking for something you haven't seen before, give this a look. Just temper your expectations.

They are literally in the wood. Surrouned by trees. They have gas stove. Tons on jackets and blankets. Cabin is made of strong wood and even a single snowflake is not inside... and they keep panicking that they will die of coldness? No other explanation except young are today completelly useless, or the director make this cause he lost some bet. Medical student is story for herself, if there is any justice they would at least eat her first time when she suggested that they should not fall asleep so we can call this a horror. They were for 3 days there and acted like it is end of the world. Shame.

This movie is an insult to millions and millions of people nowadays, and through history, that live in miserable and extreme conditions. We have a fairly confortable house, lots of blankets, clothes, a fireplace, timber, flamable itens, even gas and water running, and go beserk about freezing? All events and decisions defy simple logic. Plus, for all we know about the storyline, the events run for a period of some days. Maybe a week, maximum? It's stupid! Having someone in the group with some degree in healthcare, turns things even more non-sense. Stanley Kubrik, in his "Shining" must be laughing in his grave about this. John Carpenter surely is having some seizure, to make a movie about true horror in the extreme conditions of the Antartic, and no one was bothered about the cold. But this group of youngters, managed to go harakiri in a cosy house... No words for such garbage. The 3 rating was for the ambiance and soundtrack. Not bad. The rest... you're on your own to see it.

I watched a really bad Argentinian horror movie yesterday which I also scored with a two (a low rating that doesn't happen often with me) so I thought this week couldn't get any worse. What was I wrong! Snow Falls was slightly better as for the quality of the images but the story, if you can call it that, was beyond dumb. It's been a while since I was so flabbergasted by a bad story. I won't spoil anything, if there's even anything to spoil here. The story is so dumb, some kids go on a trip in a luxuary chalet, with all the comfort, open fire, blankets, plenty of wood everywhere, and they still manage to talk about hypothermia whilst walking around in their tank top. You couldn't think of a dumber horror (that's what it's categorized as, you wonder why) movie. They supposedly run out of food after half a day but still have food at the end. Not to mention the blizzard, what a joke, there's more snow in frigging Spain. It looked like a nice cozy winter instead of a devastating cyclone bomb. Avoid this movie at all costs, except if you're a bit masochistic and like to be annoyed for one hour and thirteen minutes.

Now, I could never judge a movie by what it shows alone, because I have to take in consideration the budget, the time it had, the experience of the people involved in the making of the movie, the actors and so on. Thus, while I will say that Snow Falls sadly is as boring as it gets, without really delivering much, it does look like a movie that came from people who genuinely wanted to make a horror, that are fans of the genre, individuals that made the most of what they had. So in this regard, considering that they used whatever they had to make a little indie horror, I will grade them 6stars, on an amateur scale. It is difficult to recommend it because it doesn't deliver on any level, but if you look closely without losing interest, it is obvious that this production is treated like a real movie, and the script has its changes, developments and one ending that fits these kinds of movies. So yes, it is weak, because it couldn't do any better, quite hard to come up with Blair Witch or even an Evil Dead, thus I believe this is a strong starter movie for this team. I will look into their movies if further shall come along. Cheers!