Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

swissmissblackburn This movie sucks! The acting is a joke. The screenplay is horrible. The real-life story was unnecessarily altered by preposterous details such as the couple had been given LSD when, in fact, they had taken a ton of meth. This is one of those movies you watch to make fun of. What a waste of 2 million dollars. It could have been made so much more interesting if the writers would have stuck to the facts and not made it a "horror" film. It was like a bad lifetime drama. Do not watch unless you have an hour and a half of your time that you don't mind wasting and you know in advance what you're getting yourself into. You have been warned.

Kashmirgrey Every once in a while, well these days more often than not, there comes along a flick so bad that after struggling through it, I feel compelled to sit down here and warn people against it. Dead of Winter aka Lost Signal is such a flick. It is so bad on so many levels that it seems a crime to invest in its 104 minutes. Wretchedly ridiculous, I found myself watching the clock with my finger hovering over the fast forward button like it was the trigger and the remote was some gun to end my suffering, my eyes glazed over frostbitten by boredom.Kevin (Al Santos) and Tiffany (Sandra McCoy) are a young couple making the foolish plunge to move in together. On a New Year's Eve, as if to christen the event, Kevin talks Tiffany into snorting some meth followed by a shot of liqueur. When Kevin catches his pusher making moves on Tiff, he and Tiff leave the party abruptly. Before long, it becomes evident that the liqueur was laced with a hallucinogen of some sort and Kevin and Tiff begin to trip out in the woods suspecting someone is after them to do some harm.Sounds intriguing enough, doesn't it? Well, don't be seduced to the lousy side with this one. Right from the start, you cannot help but despise Kevin. He's rude to Tiff's father. He's a piece of garbage for pushing meth, of all drugs, on his girlfriend, and he is the most pathetic Jack Nicholson wanna-be to ever violate celluloid. He even takes off running from perceived danger leaving his lady far behind in the freezing snow.Dead of Winter, like so many B-horror releases in recent years, feels like some failed film school project. It's just a dumb movie that insults the viewer's intelligence by taking itself seriously. It was just so stupid!

OkDog20 I believe this movie is based on the Nebraska couple, Mike Wamsley and Janelle Hornickel. I first saw their story on Dateline or 48 Hourse, one of those shows. Then I rented this movie, titled as Dead of Winter, and started to realize it was following the same storyline of that real life Nebraska couple. I can't guarantee this is the story that McNamara based his film on but it sure seems to be. Anyway, really unfortunate situation those two kids got themselves into.Overall I think the movie pretty good. Some of the interior shots, especially the scene where Kevin talks to Tiffany's father, were pretty hot and washed out. The night stuff was done well and the snow backdrop at night was effective. I think the pacing is good and with so many bad horror or thriller indies out there, this one is above those no question. If nothing else, it's worth watching for the story and what happened to these kids.

dschmeding "Lost Signal" is a nice little movie taking the basic premises of ordinary slasher movies (that is a disoriented couple chased through the woods, hiding in abandoned cabin and seeing strange persons suddenly appearing in their backseat, before windows etc.). What is different is that the movie is very slow and in reality just the hallucinations the two have after someone slipped them LSD in their drinks on a new years eve party.Most of the movie plays with the couple stumbling through the icy woods after leaving their car behind when they think someone lurks in their backseat. From here everything is going downward from trying not to freeze to death to seriously tripping out in the end (that is paying its homage to "Shining" pretty obviously). The only piece of sanity is the 9/11 operator that is regularly talking to them on their cellphone and trying to trace their position between losing their signal and trying to decipher their inconsistent stories.Sure the movie is slow and has its lengths but honestly it kept me interested. Also the acting and cinematography was OK, so I don't get the negative comments on the movie that basically rip off on some continuity errors (And I give you that the scarf thing is a real bad and obvious continuity error) but that doesn't make this a 3star movie.Spoiler ahead .... for those who say the ending didn't make any sense I wonder why you didn't get it. The guy who slips them LSD clearly wants to get in Tiffanys pants and he uses 3 glasses of which one is marked and he drinks of it. This means he drugged both, so Tiffanys actions are clear and since she hears strange voices on the phone she is obviously high as her boyfriend.The story is pretty simple... drugs are bad and the montage shows very clear the many sufferings this evening placed on many including nice clean Tiffany who has to live with what she has done now on top of her boyfriend being dead.Considering this is based on a true story I like it even more and give it a 9 just to raise the bar for this interesting movie yet it sure has some flaws. If I'd had to choose about a horror/thriller with drug themes I'd prefer this one over "Shrooms" for sure.