The Ice Demon

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I lost interest almost immediately and just left it on while I played chess and looked on eBay. It just seemed like a really boring movie to me. I was glad when it finished.

Ok so this isn't any hidden classic and in the end it was no great shakes. It probably would've earned another star from me were it just subtitled. The English dubbing is just atrocious! It takes the mood right out of the movie. I'm sure it at least had a creepy vibe in its original language with subtitles...but the dubbing removes this completely. It sounds very unnatural. One would think voice actors who are being paid to dub English voices would have some skills in this department but nope, not here. They may as well have been reading the owner's manual for a toaster. Subtitles are preferable folks, at least give us the option!

Two hikers/skiers pitch their tent in a blizzard on top of a dead guy. They discover in the morgue he is not quite dead yet, just a coma. The family insists on having him at home. "Dad" has been missing for a decade. Mom has remarried and the daughter doesn't remember anything. We discover there is a demon inside the stiff that takes over people and can do different things. This is a Russian film so feel free to boycott. I wish I had. The horror aspect is low budget, mostly people acting possessed. The mood is captured nicely as every scene is dark and cold. Difficult to get in to. IMDB photos are plot spoilers. Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

The movie is a thriller that takes place when a family member who was suddenly destroyed by his father's sudden disappearance barely accepts and heals a new family. A stepfather devoted to his family, a mother who is pathologically obsessed with his stepfather in a domestic state, and an unknown being seeking everyone's soul, Kasha makes constant choices across life and death among them. It makes the audience think about what the true meaning of the family is in the confrontation between the unknown beings that continue their lives through hate and fights between characters and the protagonist.

This movie was good, it wasn't the absolute best I've seen. But it had it's scares. It had it's suspenseful and eerie moments. I have watched Russian horror movies before and most of them are unique in their own way. I do think that this movie is worth a watch if you like dark "snowy" horror movies with demonic elements. I don't think that there is bad acting or really a bad storyline, only some things in the plot that can be quite confusing at first, but you will get the meaning behind it the more you watch the movie.

Trailer—The Ice Demon

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