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Cold Skin

2017

Xavier Gens

David Oakes, Ray Stevenson, Aura Garrido, John Benfield ...

5.3

3,737

Fantasy. Horror On the edge of the Antartic Circle, in the years after World War I, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[Friend] is never able to become anything more than the idea blossoming inside him (...) 'Cold Skin' is left to fall back on the sincerity of its beliefs, and the sense of place evoked by its Icelandic shooting locations"
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"A good-looking and well-crafted if familiar chunk of creature-siege horror (...) Even the critters themselves have a déjà-vu quality"
		Kurt Halfyard Screen Anarchy	"[It] puts too many of its cards in the lighthouse action set-pieces, which become somewhat repetitive, incomprehensible and tedious"
		Kalyn Corrigan Bloody Disgusting	"'Cold Skin' swims in shallow waters (...) [It] is quite a letdown (...) Dull, overly pretentious, and even downright goofy at times (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"'Cold Skin' is an attractive creature feature about our own tendency to act like monsters"

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