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The Chill Factor
Demon Possessed
USA 1993
produced by Christopher Webster, Alexander W. Kogan jr (executive), Barry Tucker (executive)
directed by Christopher Webster
starring Dawn Laurrie, Aaron Kjenaas, Connie Snyder, David Fields, Eve Montgomery, Jim Cagle, Bekki Vallin, Mark Armstrong, Chuck Decker, Ron Hollnagle, Jim Gresch, Barbara Claman (voice)
written by Julian Weaver, music by John Tatgenhorst
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tom (Aaron Kjenaas), his girlfriend Jeannie (Dawn Laurrie), his sister
Karen (Connie Snyder), her boyfriend Chris (David Fields), and their
friends Ron (Jim Cagle) and Lissa (Eve Montgomery) are on a snowmobile
trip in the wintery mountains of Wisconsin when Tom and Chris, in an
apparent attempt to prove themselves alpha male, decide to have a race -
which ends in a nasty accident giving Tom a concussion and some very nasty
bruises and putting him in what appears to be a coma. As there's no one
around for miles, our heroes take abode in an abandoned building that
appears to have one day been a religious holiday camp but is now ... a bit
creepy. And while the others take care of Tom, Ron volunteers to drive to
the next town to get some help. Once they've taken care of Tom, the girls
find some kind of ouija-like witchboard and decide to try it, just to pass
the time - but it seems the board does have some occult powers, as it
brings Tom out of his coma and sees to it that Ron has a lethal accident -
unbeknowest to the others of course. Lissa walks off in the building on
her own and finds out some stuff, like that the camp was secretly also the
base for a group of Satanists, and that a bunch of murders happened on the
premises. She doesn't get to tell it to the others anymore, as she's met
with a nasty accident that somehow had to do with Tom. And while Tom and
Jeannie have sex to celebrate his speedy recovery, Chris and Karen die
rather nastily as well. And when Jeannie realizes they're all dead and
she's alone at the camp with Tom, who might not be the Tom she knew and
fell in love with anymore, it might already be too late ... To
say that The Chill Factor re-invents the horror genre
single-handedly would be nothing short of a gross exaggeration, as this is
a movie that sticks to genre mainstays and conventions rather rigidly and
in fact seems to be a rather typical product of its time - and that's fun,
too, actually, as while The Chill Factor might not be wholly
original, it's well-made, atmospheric, invests some imagination into its
death scenes, and moves along at a brisk pace. It might be no masterpiece,
but it's just the right spooker coming down nostalgia avenue to relax to
after a long day of work for some welcome chills, bits of tension and jump
scares.
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