It’s winter, in the 1970s, a couple who have just tied the knot prepare to spend their honeymoon in an isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere. A cop asks them if it’s the best idea and we wonder if they’ve never read The Shining.
It’s funny to think that the beards and hair we associate with the 1970s are totally contemporary today. The rest of the film’s aesthetic component is, however, a well-crafted throwback to a time when film had grain and there were no smartphones to save us if we were trapped in a house by a layer of snow so thick that we’d have to dig a huge tunnel to get away. Nat Rovit adds some magical realism to his horror in an exploration that’s as entertaining as it is frightening regarding the potential for a life together to end in a raucous descent into madness. (Ana Cabral Martins)
