The Ice Demon

Ok so this isn't any hidden classic and in the end it was no great shakes. It probably would've earned another star from me were it just subtitled.

The English dubbing is just atrocious! It takes the mood right out of the movie. I'm sure it at least had a creepy vibe in its original language with subtitles...but the dubbing removes this completely. It sounds very unnatural. One would think voice actors who are being paid to dub English voices would have some skills in this department but nope, not here. They may as well have been reading the owner's manual for a toaster. Subtitles are preferable folks, at least give us the option!

The movie is a thriller that takes place when a family member who was suddenly destroyed by his father's sudden disappearance barely accepts and heals a new family. A stepfather devoted to his family, a mother who is pathologically obsessed with his stepfather in a domestic state, and an unknown being seeking everyone's soul, Kasha makes constant choices across life and death among them.

It makes the audience think about what the true meaning of the family is in the confrontation between the unknown beings that continue their lives through hate and fights between characters and the protagonist.

This Russian film has a few more little logical mistakes. First it feels like mysterious and thriller film, but then it suddenly giving you psychological horror. You know what, i like this transformating hha. And i must mention about new jumpscare technique in this movie. It is not that much scary but weird and creepy. Mainly this useful technique is hyping me out. And most beautiful thing about this movie. It has a insanely good cinematography. Little bit dark and cinematic light and definitely has a cool and cold atmosphere hits in. Because it titled Ice demon. First i reading the title and thought its about mythical Russian monster but it isn't. It is psychological and dark, arthouse horror film. Not bad i guess.

I lost interest almost immediately and just left it on while I played chess and looked on eBay. It just seemed like a really boring movie to me. I was glad when it finished.

This movie was good, it wasn't the absolute best I've seen. But it had it's scares. It had it's suspenseful and eerie moments. I have watched Russian horror movies before and most of them are unique in their own way.

I do think that this movie is worth a watch if you like dark "snowy" horror movies with demonic elements. I don't think that there is bad acting or really a bad storyline, only some things in the plot that can be quite confusing at first, but you will get the meaning behind it the more you watch the movie.