Name: Cold Wind Blowing
Genre: Horror
Released: 2020-10-02
Rating: 33
Cast: Larry Fessenden, Griffin Cork, Nalani Wakita, M.J. Kehler, Alexander Lowe

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Cold Wind Blowing has all the elements of a really solid low-budget indie horror that thoroughly deserves its second chance; hopefully, genre fest programmers and other critics will not let this one slide into oblivion.

Mar 31, 2021

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Anton Bitel

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if the monster is also a metaphor, Nomi is both its vehicle and its tenor, its vessel and its vanquisher.

Mar 30, 2021

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Like giving a deer head and a camera to teenagers and telling them to make a horror film. The drama was so cringy it almost turned comedy - until you remembered that they were actually trying to act scared of the bony creature outside the cabin.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Andy B

An overlong and poorly paced student film with acting that veers from passable to downright appalling. Almost an hour is spent on setup which adds little and could have been done more effectively in half the time, after which the 'monster' (a bird skull on a stick which mercilessly pecks at it's victims) aimlessly terrorizes the bickering cast through a bewildering variety of senseless decisions. The finale is the usual no budget horror routine of having the heroine beat the ground with an axe and scream whilst the crew frantically throw buckets of ketchup at nearby trees. Cutting the first two words off the title would have at least served as a warning.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/27/23

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There are so few modern horror movies that have both a love for the genre and a desire to do something new with it but writer-director Dionne Copland delivers a film that excels in every regard. From the fantastic performances that get you to ACTUALLY care about the characters to the amazingly crafted horror set-pieces, Cold Wind Blowing is the REAL DEAL. I don't make comparisons to a classic like The Evil Dead lightly, but the way that Copland really reinvents the wheel here with her storytelling and the way that she decides to present the horror is nothing short of amazing. There is one scene involving a closed door that is probably one of my favourite horror movie moments from recent memory. This is female-driven horror at its finest, with a beautiful story about slaying one's own demons and with a few queer undertones sprinkled throughout. I can't think of anything better in recent memory that truly felt like the NEXT THING in horror, but Copland does more than enough to prove that she is one of THE most exciting filmmakers starting in horror today. This film will not be for everyone, but if you "get it" and ACTUALLY like horror movies for the right reasons then you will find A LOT to love about Cold Wind Blowing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Dionne Copland

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Larry Fessenden

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Griffin Cork

Nick Holden

Nalani Wakita

Samantha Becker

M.J. Kehler

Casey Cooper

Alexander Lowe

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Synopsis

A brother and sister and their four friends go on Christmas vacation in the Cypress Hills. As old hurts begin to surface between the intimate circle of friends, a shocking event further illuminates their fracturing relationships.

Director: Dionne Copland
Screenwriter: Dionne Copland
Production Co: CyberCraft Video Productions
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 15, 2022
Runtime: 1h 52m

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