I'm not sure that anyone needs to be presented with any new nightmare scenarios given the world's perpetual state of unrest nowadays, but like it or not, IFC Films has recently unveiled a trailer for CENTIGRADE, a film that's bound to make your feel claustrophobic AF as the horror of this upcoming release settles in.
Based on true events, CENTIGRADE takes place in 2002, when a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren’t high enough, Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Matthew and Naomi realize they must work together to survive in a crippling battle against the elements, hypothermia, disturbing hallucinations, and plunging temperatures reaching as low as -30C.
Directed and co-written by award-winning director Brendan Walsh, CENTIGRADE stars Genesis Rodriguez (Naomi), Vincent Piazza (Matthew), and Mavis Simpson-Ernst. Daley Nixon also serves as a co-writer on this bone-chilling project, which by all accounts makes me glad that I'm inside my office during a warm summer day in July.
I don't know about you, but I would lose my shit if all of a sudden I woke up and found myself trapped beneath a wall of ice on all sides with no conceivable means of escape. I mean, I don't know of anyone who would be cool with that, but I would transform into quite the obnoxious companion real quick. How do you think you would fare? Would you start kicking at the windows or perhaps look for tools to dig your way out? Feel free to share your survival tactics for a situation such as this in the comments section below.
CENTIGRADE opens on VOD, Digital platforms, and Drive-In theaters on August 28.