Dead of Winter (2014)

Dead of Winter: Directed by Robert Rice. With Dave Barclay, John Boylan, John Carew, Allison Dawn Doiron. In the wilderness of Colorado teams compete in a Geocache treasure hunt that suddenly becomes a deadly game of survival.

“An extremely improbable assemblage of obnoxious d-bags head out into the snow for a scavenger hunt. Who will win?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWho cares.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot the director, because the plot is quickly abandoned once the bodies start stacking up. In short order essentially nameless cast members are decapitated, ripped limb from limb, pincushioned with arrows, and so on. The big mystery is: who is responsible for the murders?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWho cares.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt turns out the director doesnu0026#39;t care about the mystery either, because the killer is shown firing the cross bolt halfway through the film. So much for the mystery. Half the movie to go and we have no plot and no mystery. Oops.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePoor acting, though that is more due to the u0026quot;and thenu0026quot; nature of the script than a lack of effort from the cast. And then the bus blows up, and then a girl has her arms tipped off, and then a guy is decapitated, and then… No story, no plot, no rising action. Just a series of unconnected scenes. And then a guy is shot with arrows, and then…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe music is laughably bad. The less said about it the better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the plus side the scenery is pleasant and the threatened found footage video cam filming from the beginning was mercifully quickly forgotten.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFour stars.”