Fooling the audience to good effect, DEAD COLD chills at just the right temperature; with its menage-a-trois twist, direct-to-vid viewers don't have to feel as if they're struggling to climb out of a snowdrift of obviousness.
After recuperating from a near-fatal car-jacking, screenwriter Eric Thornsen (Chris Mulkey) bundles up his supportive wife Alicia (Lysette Anthony) for a remote spot where he can forget urban anxiety and complete his novel. The rustic calm of this second honeymoon is marred by the appearance of a
homicidal fugitive, Kale (Peter Dobson), also responsible for the car-jacking. Kale has warmed up for terrorizing the Thornsens by shooting Sarah ...
Released:
1996
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins