Three, vanilla, college kids get stuck in a ski lift chair high above some undisclosed, New England slopes, as a winter storm rolls in. While they're up there, they argue about stuff like their bizarre love triangle dynamic, which doesn't really help make being stuck in a ski lift chair for a long-ass time any more interesting since it's some typical teenager, third-wheel, after-school-special BS. The severe compound fracture that one of them gets trying to jump off the chair lift is gnarly but not that interesting either..., until that dude gets eaten by small "wolves" that are probably just regular dogs, which were, perhaps, a responsible fiscal decision given the movie's modest budget. This logistical practicality is a little bit interesting, but only a little, perhaps, because the affordable "wolves" were midsized dogs and kind of cute. Being mauled by standard-issue dogs that were painted to look like vicious wolves and shot with some sort of shadowy strobe effect from low angles to make them seem darker and bigger than average-sized, domesticated, well-lit dogs might be interesting, but the camera doesn't show it because we are told not to look at the mauling by the two remaining, vanilla, college kids stuck in a ski lift chair..., presumably because it would be too traumatic to see their best friend eaten alive by the one or two, well-trained but otherwise mediocre dogs that were actually on the set but shot to seem as if they were a wild and multitudinous pack of gigantic, drooling beasts. After the artfully obscured but budgetary, except for whatever was spent on the pricey-sounding, crunchy bone audio used throughout the movie, mauling that we are left to imagine from the two teenagers closed eyes and some random, half-eaten, special-effects department, body parts strewn around in the snow, there's some uninteresting but tense conversation around who was responsible for that dude jumping out of the chair and promptly getting mauled. Later there's some more uninteresting but tense dialog around not touching their frostbitten faces because their noses will fall off if they're not careful. Join us to find out if they're able to resist touching their frost-bitten faces and how the movies manages to add up to something sort of enjoyable to watch even though its not composed of many promising elements. Follow us @thedesireofhorrorpodcast: Instagram
