When a group of college friends go to one of their parent's cottages, at a ski resort called Snow Falls, for New Year's Eve...they end up getting trapped, with no power, little food, and a supply of firewood that they are burning through quick.
However, they still have a safe house...and blankets...and each other...
So when the one girl- traumatized by the dying words of her mother- takes over, with all these rules, designed to prevent hypothermia...all logic- and any semblance of common sense- is just thrown out the window.
Because...though, it would no doubt be cold. It wouldn't be to the point where they are actually hypothermic.
So the fact that she suggests they "don't fall asleep", only acts to make matters worse...as being sleep deprived would go to adversely effect their psychological state.
Which is what the entire premise of this film is based on.
As they can't even go three damn days before they all start tripping out.
Which is just as ridiculous as not falling asleep at all during that timeframe.
Because, they are quite literally surrounded by trees...yet make no attempt to collect firewood at any point.
Which would have solved all of their nonsensical problems.
Not to mention...THERE IS BARELY EVEN ANY FRIGGING SNOW...!?!?
For anyone who lives in an area where it snows...you'll look at the rate at which the CGI (ugh) snow is coming down...and be like...hey, how pleasant.
The filmmakers make zero effort to make it seem like they are actually stuck in a blizzard (the snow doesn't even go above the soles of their boots ffs).
So it's simply laughable.
And this is before they introduce the equally absurd theme of them thinking the snowflakes are infected by some sort of virus.
Which doesn't even make any damn sense.
Their paranoid delusions are, apparently, a result of the sleep deprivation...while their sleep deprivation is all based on one chick's idiotic direction...and them collectively being too stupid to collect firewood, despite wandering around outside amongst a plethora of very accessible trees.
Literally nothing in this film makes sense.
If the writers had half a brain, they would have just made the whole thing a cannibal flick...because the only actual problem they have is a lack of food...and even that is giving them the benefit of the doubt, because they still have food at the end!!!
The entire plot here is so stupid...it's flabbergasting.
Leaving me genuinely confused about what the creators were thinking when they constructed it.
Is the whole point of this film to frustrate you, with how frustratingly dumb these characters are?
Cause if that's not it...then I just don't get it.
Hopefully this isn't foreshadowing what kind of year 2023 is going to be like for horror.
Because this move is idiotic.
Talk about a bad start to the New Year...
1 out of 10.