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247°F Movie Review

Three friends are battling extreme temperatures as they fight off exhaustion, dehydration, and possible heat strokes. No, they're not hanging out at Orlando's Magic Kingdom Park in August--they're trapped in a sauna. This 2011 movie, incredibly based on a true story, is fairly light on the scares but it doesn't lack intensity. As somebody who lives in an apartment that feels like an igloo (my girlfriend's decision, not mine), the thought of being in a sauna sounds nice--only, you know, not with the three people in the movie.

These three people, to be exact

Horror fans will certainly recognize two of those people: Scout Taylor-Compton of Halloween fame, and Travis Van Winkle, who you know as Trent from the 2009 Friday the 13th remake--I hate that character so much that as soon as I saw Ian, the character Van Winkle play in this movie, I hated him too. Even though Ian never approaches the jerk level of Trent, I still couldn't see Van Winkle as anybody but Trent, and hated him all throughout this movie as a result. I like to think maybe Van Winkle is a really nice dude in real life, and his portrayal of Trent was a wonderful job of acting, but until this is proven to be the case, I will despise him...anyway, back on track. Tyler Mane appears here as well, and seeing he and Taylor-Compton as friends in this movie after seeing them as Michael Myers and Laurie Strode in the Rob Zombie remakes of Halloween reached the far away part of my mind that was similarly weirded-out when Hacksaw Jim Duggan and his mortal enemy The Iron Sheik were busted for drugs while travelling together back in the day.

Say it ain't so!

The acting is fine in this movie, as there's nothing that really stands out as being great or awful. The situation the three characters are in may give you a feeling of claustrophobia, but honestly, with such a small setting, there wasn't a lot more they could do as far as bringing the terror. Still, there's something oddly likable about this movie, and I enjoyed watching it. It felt like a really drawn out Final Destination death or Saw trap, and would have likely fared better as part of an anthology, but as a movie, it was a little better than I expected it to be.

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 6

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