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A group of teenagers take their injured friend to a cabin in the snow, not knowing that it is the home of an evil force.

The US title of this risible 1993 minor horror movie was Demon Possessed, and is probably a more honest description of the derivative nonsense to follow. Desperately wanting to be a snowbound variation on The Evil Dead, fault must be squarely aimed at director Christopher Webster (it’s his only directing credit) who not only elicits awful performances from his cast, but delivers a film that is technically inept.

There’s no tension, the characters come out with the sort of dialogue you only get in bargain basement slashers, and is borderline parody such is it’s racking up of cliché after cliché. You really don’t care about any of this bunch, who turn on one another so quickly, and it’s a relief when the Ouija board is enlisted as you know some of the poor saps will soon be exiting. The deaths are predictable, and by the time we’re meant to be rooting for the final girl making her escape from the baddie on her snowmobile, it just doesn’t matter.

The conclusion really has to be seen to be believed, and the bizarre use of a voiceover narrator tells us this happened 30 years ago, and yet the movie is set in contemporary times. So the old lady talking to us should actually be about 50 and is in the future? Nonsense! The country and western song over the end credits just about sealed it for me. The new 2K restoration from original film elements cannot disguise the fact that this is a rubbish movie, and the new audio commentary and interviews with behind the scenes crew are for nothing.

Verdict: Inept, boring, derivative tosh that can’t even register on the ‘so bad it’s good’ scale, I genuinely can’t recommend this to anyone. Avoid. 2/10

Nick Joy