#LET IT SNOW 2020 SERIES#

You might think the idea of a killer roaming around on a snowmobile is kind of silly, but Kapralov seems to take a lot of inspiration from Spielberg’s Duel, giving the snowmobile and the killer himself a roar that sounds more animal than anything machine. Making Mia wish she had said no is the ominous killer on a snowmobile, dressed all in black leather, looking like Charlie Sheen in The Wraith and swapping out the desert for the icy landscape. It’s a point that’s unfortunately never played up in the film, but there’s a clear divide between what Mia wants and what her boyfriend thinks she wants.īut hey, he promised the trip would be “unforgettable”. Throughout Let It Snow, we’re given flashbacks of what lead up to this trip, at one point seeing Mia and her boyfriend in bed as he tells her he’s taking them to the perfect place for them, a place Mia barely registers, as it feels like this trip is more for him, since she’s only been snowboarding a short time, despite being a “regular snow demon” as he calls her. Sakhno gives a strong performance as a woman struggling to survive the harshness of the snow and the deranged killer on her tail, bringing a fierce determination coupled with a sad loneliness, even before she becomes separated. If that’s not bad enough, they even look the other way after seeing a dead body taken away, discovered at the ridge. Christ, it’s embarrassing! Yet still so awfully truthful. Seriously, perhaps the most horrifying thing about Let It Snow is that these two Americans are so stubborn and entitled, that the boyfriend continues to proclaim to anyone who can be of service, “we came all the way from America,” as if that should somehow grant them access to the death mountain. Mia is your average shy, quiet (and of course smarter) woman who knows they shouldn’t go to Black Ridge against the warnings of the hotel, while her boyfriend, to no surprise, refuses to listen. Let It Snow will have you pouring yourself some hot chocolate and Schnapps before we even meet our protagonists.Īs for Mia and her listening-challenged boyfriend, Sakhno and Hafner both do an admirable job of bringing out the stereotypical characters we’ve become so used to seeing with couple vacation horror films like this.

Oh, and then follow that up with a little girl being left for dead after a skier runs into her. Not surprising for a film that begins with a voiceover that goes, “Three years ago was my last happy Christmas”. Shot in a constant hue of soft blues and whites that give off the vague sense of living in an asylum, Let It Snow is guaranteed to piss all over your white winter wonderland vibe. Now that I read that, it actually sounds pretty silly, but Let It Snow is anything but a good time.Ĭommon with any Christmas horror film, Let It Snow is the sort of bleak survivalist story that gives you that same, depressed gut feeling you might have when Kate regales everyone with the tale of how her dad died in Gremlins.

#LET IT SNOW 2020 SERIES#

After learning that the slope they want to make snow waves on, Black Ridge, is off limits thanks to a series of mysterious deaths-knowledge courtesy of the creepy hotel clerk ( Tinatin Dalakishvili)-Mia and her fellow decide screw it, we’re going anyway! Once they get there though, they soon became separated and find themselves hunted by a murderous figure on a snowmobile. Which brings me to the pre-Christmas Christmas horror flick, Let It Snow.ĭirected by Stanislav Kapralov (making his feature directorial debut) and written by Kapralov and Omri Rose, Let It Snow follows Mia ( Ivanna Sakhno) and her boyfriend ( Alex Hafner), who have travelled to the Ukraine for a snowboarding trip. What the phrase “unforgettable” doesn’t mean, though, is that the film itself will be unforgettable. “I’ll be back” and an “unforgettable” trip in horror films are guaranteed death wishes. It means those characters probably won’t make it back home. Just not at all the way they think, because “unforgettable” is an omen.

When a character says “unforgettable”, they’re right. …”I’ll be back” to horror fans means you most definitely won’t be back, and if you do show up, it’s going to be with a cleaver in your head.

Let it snow 2020