The Cold (The Game) Movie Review
Millionaires bored with life host a game--they bring in 9 common folk and offer a million dollars to the one who can conquer their greatest fears and last all night in a mansion. A ripoff of House on Haunted Hill? Without question. As good as the Vincent Price classic? Not even close. This very low budget 1984 film lacks originality in the story, sure. It's also a very poor film in almost every way imaginable. The acting is atrocious...that may not even be a strong enough word for it. The directing is laughable. The lighting appears as though a single bulb was used at times, and as if they completely forgot the lighting at other times. Mistakes and errors are around every corner--when the naked woman in the sauna scene takes place, look not at the woman, but at the sauna door--here, you will see a very clear reflection of a man holding a microphone, with the cable running down his arm.
Look above his head, and behind hers
Possibly even worse than all this is the story and the action. Little hints of what may be going on are thrown in here and there, and when you think you have it pegged, something that makes no sense to the story at all will happen, throwing you off the trail. This happens repeatedly throughout the movie, and you may wonder out loud what, in fact, is happening--let me save you a lot of time and recommend you don't even try. The narrator of the story even confesses to having no idea what happened in the movie. Instead of getting hung up on this, enjoy The Cold for all the glorious awfulness it offers, as it's so bad it's...not good, but certainly entertaining.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
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