The Chill Factor (1993)
Also known as
Demon Possessed,
The Chill Factor centers on a group of snowmobilers who end up trapped at an abandoned summer camp where occult goings on took place. Upon finding an awesome looking ouija board called the Devils' Eye things start to go a bit awry as one by one they come to gory demises.
This was certainly different. Parts of the film are narrated which brought a new dimension to a by now cliched genre as did the whole atmosphere of the film, brought on by a constant soundscape of what can only be described as hypnotic elevator muzak. I felt transfixed by the music watching the on screen action through a surreal trance like state. I wasn't sure if the shadowy figures half glimpsed were in the film or my imagination.
The murders when they happen are fun, especially the icicle through the eye, and the fact they all play out to the unearthly muzak back drop which is unflinching in it's constant drone gave them an especially eerie dream like nature as did the cabin which itself was very
Evil Dead like.
Of course anyone who isn't captured and swept away by the atmosphere may find parts of this a bit dull but i loved it and it goes straight into the top division of backwoods horror for me.
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