We have already reached December, the year is ending and with the end of it winter arrives. In honor of this today we want to honor winter television shows or in a cold and snowy environment. But we will not limit ourselves to Christmas movies, but to those productions that turned winter and snow into one more character in their history.
When we think of this season and productions of the season, movies like home aloneor any that includes Christmas, where you feel a pleasant and comforting atmosphere for the December season.
However, many filmmakers really want to explore the other side of winter. This side that includes sub-zero temperatures, different perspectives on how to experience the cold. Blizzards, days cloistered at home, sometimes without electricity because the snowfall made it impossible to go out. When we see this other side of the coin, we come to feel a true roulette wheel of emotions. It is then when we can feel what the characters on the screen felt, because the snow becomes another character and can even become the true villain of the story.
1-. Groundhog Day (1993)
columbia pictures
This fantasy film starring Bill Murray leaves us trapped in the snow inside a time loop, literally. Murray plays a meteorologist who is trapped by snow in the town of Punxsutawney, destined to repeat the same snowy day over and over again.either. If that curse had fallen on a glorious summer day, Phil Connors probably wouldn’t mind living like this for eternity.
two-. The Hateful Eight (2015)
shiny penny
A snowstorm forces eight not-so-likable personalities into a confined space at Minnie’s Haberdashery. Quentin Tarantino’s first and only snowy film to date.
3-. Eight Below (2006)
Buena Vista Pictures
In this film, we see a man facing adversity, but this ends up taking a backseat. In the end, there are 8 canines facing a merciless fight against the merciless reality of Antarctica.
Believe it or not, this movie is based on a 1957 Japanese expedition.
4-. Wind River (2017)
Acacia Filmed Entertainment
In this detective story set in Wyoming, snow and frost play the role of a murderer, and then an insurmountable obstacle to investigation and justice. In fact, due to the weather conditions, it is not easy for the heroes to at least reach the crime scene without dying themselves.
5-. The Shining (1980)
Warner Bros
The film tells the story of Jack Torrance, a former teacher who accepts a position as winter watchman at a lonely high-mountain hotel to take care of maintenance. Shortly after settling there with his wife and his son, he begins to suffer disturbing personality disorders. Gradually, due to the lack of communication, insomnia, his own inner ghosts and, perhaps, the evil influence of the place, he will find himself immersed in a spiral of violence against them, who in turn appear to be victims of terrifying supernatural phenomena.
6-. The Thing (1982)
Universal Pictures
Based on John W. Campbell Jr.’s 1938 novel Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the “Thing”, a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates to other organisms. The group is overcome with paranoia and conflict, as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any one of them could be the Thing.
7-. Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
HBO
This will be the only exception on the list, but it was impossible not to mention it. Throughout almost the entire series, the characters keep saying that winter is coming. It is this fact that keeps all the characters in the story on their toes, even though they already have enough problems. And the White Walkers that appeared later are the embodiment of cold horror before the transformation of all of Westeros into the Lands of Eternal Winter.
8-. The Revenant (2015)
20th Century Fox
Abandoned and wounded hunter Hugh Glass struggles not only with a terrible winter, but also with bears and Indians, but it’s hard to say who he gets more from.
9-. The day after tomorrow (2004)
20th Century Fox
It is based on the book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber and chronicles the catastrophic climate effects of the disruption of the circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age
10-. Bonus: Frozen (2013)
Disney
This frozen adventure is a classic to watch in the winter season. Although the story of these sisters has gone around the world and it is almost impossible that you have not seen it. But in the end, winter also plays an important role in the story.
Elsa’s ice not only reflects her emotions, but also the snow and storms are the expression of the feeling of depression and isolation that Elsa felt for a large part of her life and at the end of the film, mostly because she did not understand Its powers.