Whiteout – Whiteout Horror Movie

White Out Horror Movie

Director: Dominic Sena
Writer: John Hoeber – Erich Hoeber – Chad Hayes – Carey Hayes
Starring: Kate Beckinsale – Gabriel Macht – Alex O’Loughlin – Columbus Short
Tom Skerritt
Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment – Don Carmody Productions – Silver Pictures

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Synopsis:
TormentedFilms.com is very interested in this graphic novel adaptation. When a body is discovered just three days before the six month darkness of winter, US Marshalls begin the first murder investigation on the continent of Antarctica.

As the US Marshall Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) turns in her resignation and looks forward to the last flight out of the barren station, she is forced into the investigation of a murder mystery over half a century old. She stalks the killer, who is willing to go to any length to protect a dark secret.

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More people are killed, questions about loyalty come to the forefront, and it becomes difficult to know where everybody stands. Serious winter storms cover the landscape in dangerous white out conditions, making the Marshall’s desperate search for escape nearly impossible. Clashes with the UN operative also assigned to the case create tension and wavering loyalties. Carrie fights time and herself to escape the encroaching and terrifying winter dark.

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We’ve seen plenty of graphic novels turned into movies lately, and I have to say, even the biggest stretches are usually done with such grace that they’re usually all entertaining on some level. We’ll have to wait and see with Whiteout, but initial reports from fans of the novel are a bit lukewarm. What we know about the film doesn’t quite jive with the characters of the novel, which isn’t altogether unusual for a film, but they’ve apparently axed an entire character from the mix.

Whiteout is a big enough production to have hooked Kate Beckinsale as the lead, so you know it promises the same as every other Hollywood thriller every made. They know how to make a profitable movie, and this one is shaping up to be no different. Don’t take that the wrong way, I just think that this film will end up being around the middle of the pack in terms of sheer terror.

When I read the description of Whiteout, I immediately thought of Insomnia with Robin Williams, and I hope I’m wrong. I was disappointed by that movie (set in a place where the sun never sets), most likely because I went into it thinking it was an action packed thriller, and instead it was a thinking man’s movie. Whiteout seems like it’s a little different, being set where the sun is about to set for six months, and it looks like it’s got a bit more action. Don’t know for sure yet, but we’ll figure it out eventually.

A successful thriller is based on the feeling that you’ve got to do something or go somewhere, and this movie looks like it has those things. Once the murder is discovered, Carrie has three days to work on it before the Antarctic winter covers everything in darkness for the next six months. That’s the urgency we need to make this movie a must watch. It certainly looks like it’s worth a watch. We’ll see.

Posted by rich
A Horror Guy