Pretty Good

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The fact that a movie is low-budget doesn't make it a bad movie, however it doesn't mean that the movie's flaws should be forgiven as if they don't count.This movie is dreadful. Interminably boring and with exceptionally poor dialog. I couldn't make it all the way through, none of the performances conveys any kind of fear at all. The worst actor is definitely the clown playing "Karl". I can see one of the ways they saved on budget was using people who don't know how to act.Grainy cheap cameras I can forgive, but for Pete's sake, *don't* shoot "night" scenes during the day. It's (a) obvious that it isn't night and (b) confusing because sometimes a shot comes along and you can't figure out if it was "supposed to be night".My recommendation is skip it. There is nothing to see here.

The plot and formula of this movie: people in isolated place+monster, has been used and re-used so very many times that all you see has been done before, and much better I'd like to add. And this, coupled with the fact that they pretty much add nothing at all new, no surprise twists or anything, the movie soon becomes a drawn-out, near total bore. It's almost consistently boring, the plot is extremely poor and dull-yet I still felt that it was very basically entertaining and enjoyable. The surrounding wintry tundra really sets an oppressive, eerie tone-it looks absolutely freezing and just chilled me right through the screen! That setting is the only true star of this flick in my opinion. I also liked a lot of the cinematography on show. They try out a lot of really strange and creepy camera angles that to me delivered and created an okay subtle kind of tension. I don't believe that just because a movie has a really s****y budget, that it and the acting need automatically be classified as horrible. I'm a big fan of another cheaply made independent horror movie called "Rise of the Dead." Regardless of the cost to make, if everything about a film rolls together, gels and works well it can be great-I mean look at "Friday the 13th." But sadly to me this, mostly because of the actors, definitely does not work. The tension of the picture really started to develop well, just so long as there was only one character on the screen at a time. But the second another appeared and they began to converse, things just seemed to fall flat fast. One character I couldn't stand and couldn't wait to be horribly butchered for my personal viewing pleasure was the annoying loudmouth who couldn't seem to open his mouth without uttering the F-word. Gah, die already! Everyone had a weird little foreign twang, like they were from Bratislava or something. Maybe this was what hindered the acting. The stunted accents really made the actors sound amateurish and stupid at times. I think perhaps I may have enjoyed this movie a whole lot more if it had just been released as a Swedish movie with subs. As it is, you don't ever care that much about any of the characters, including the lead. I thought Hanna Oldenburg was good in her thankless and hectic role. Not brilliant of course, but much better than everyone else-not counting the killer. That possible Blair Witch homage with her nose overflowing like crazy was so incredibly gross! I'd like to say that it was great that she as an actress was willing to "go there" and look so disgusting that she was snotting with terror, but I'm pretty sure it was probably just the natural result of the temperature! One of those "organic" acting type things I've heard so much about then... She sure was a dead ringer for Kristen Stewart! ::: For me one of the big pluses about Blood Runs Cold is its masked killer. I liked the way that no explanation was ever offered as to who or what the guy was. They didn't give a reason for the terror, it just existed for its own sake and was its own rationality. I've always really liked that idea. He clearly wasn't alive, and maybe not even human. The design of his suit was very similar to the killer from the original My Bloody Valentine, and the way that he was some kind of dried-up zombie with dust for blood was reminiscent of that clockwork ninja guy from Hellboy. The kills were effectively blunt and brutal, although some of the cgi blood splashes looked really cheesy. I liked the part when the last girl standing(such a classic in movies such as these!) discovers the killer's lair which is this big cave mine underneath the house. That was a cool scene. There is a very quick hint that's easy to miss near the end of the movie that suggests that "Winona" may have gone to the wrong house. So from the killer's sick perspective she and her friends were trespassers. I thought the shabby and cold-looking house made for quite the creepy environment, particularly during the gruelling chase scenes that lead up to the ending. This movie only really ever rises up during the frenzied climax, which is good, but it also highlights just how slow everything else is. The final image of the traumatised Winona wailing right into the camera is simply terrible. I guess the film had to have some kind of conclusion, but that? That ridiculous non-ending that single-handedly demolishes whatever fragile icy kudos this dumb excuse for a picture had managed to build up? Bah!!! Couldn't they have at least sprung for that well-worn old chestnut where the seemingly vanquished killer opens his eyes, or clenches a fist in vengeance? It did make me laugh though, as it was so freakin' lame! The ending has gotta be a big letdown, no matter how you wish to view this film... Just a cheap slasher flick, not really deserving of any special attention whatsoever-although on the other hand, what's wrong with a little good old-fashioned chop-up carnage to kill 1hr 20? Definitely a bad film, but not one I believe would be a total waste of your time if you're into horror slashers. Keep this one on ice...

If this film had have been done on a budget of $10m I would have gladly given it a solid 6 or 7 out of 10 but for the $5000 it took to make, it deserves a full 10 out of 10 plus. How on earth do you produce a film as good as this for so little cash? There's plenty of scares, some decent gore, an absolutely brilliant looking killer, seriously, they don't come much creepier than this one and the gore effects are top notch. It doesn't look cheap either, the camera work is fairly competent and looks far in excess of its meagre budget. The only quibble I'd have is with acting, which isn't the best if I'm honest but hey, for $5000 this is superb. I'd like to see what this director can do with a real budget. It was far better than some of the big budget dross that Hollywood churns out these days.

"Blood runs cold" is the epitome of meaninglessness. Basically you get a low budget slasher, kind of the twice lobotomized brother of the lame "Fritt Vilt" movies. The killer has a pick Axe and lives under a house in a snow-scape where some kids end up being picked off one by one. Best things first... I thought the killer looked quite effectively creepy and considering the budget they managed to make the movie not look too bad at first sight and even managed some decent gore scenes. But this movie lacks where budget is no excuse. Half of the movie has close to no dialog and just dumb people stumbling through empty rooms and doing things that are totally irrelevant for the "plot". The movie just ends suddenly after a bunch of unbelievably dumb scenes of which most is shamelessly stolen from other horror movies and reproduced in a cheap low budget way. Many scenes of closeups seem repetitive, the blood looks orange like in a bad 70ies movie, the acting is bad, the snow looks fake and the plot is as close to non-existent as in a porn movie.Considering that the directors name is Sonny Laguna he is already halfway to a porn director, so why not go all the way? Anybody who rates this movie above average must have had his brain frozen due to excessive SlushPuppy indulgence.