Winter / Snow / Cold Horror Movies
by resetsmyth | created - 10 Sep 2013 | updated - 03 Feb 2023 | PublicHorror movies that take place in a wintery snowy setting
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1. Wendigo (2001)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The legend of the Wendigo, a beast from Indian folklore who is half-man, half-deer, and can change itself at will.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos
Votes: 4,722 | Gross: $0.10M
2. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 465,977 | Gross: $13.78M
3. The Thaw (2009)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A research expedition to the Arctic discovers that a melting polar ice cap has released a deadly prehistoric parasite.
Director: Mark A. Lewis | Stars: Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore, Kyle Schmid
Votes: 12,853
4. The Last Winter (2006)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford
Votes: 9,833 | Gross: $0.03M
5. Cold Prey (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
5 young Norwegians head up to the mountains to snowboard. One breaks his leg and it's getting dark soon, so they spend the night in a big, abandoned hotel, closed 30 years ago. They are not alone.
Director: Roar Uthaug | Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Endre Martin Midtstigen
Votes: 19,607
6. Cold Prey 2 (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Jannicke wakes up in the hospital. All of her friends are dead. As she walks through the dark corridors, she thinks she is left alone. But the nightmare isn't over yet.
Director: Mats Stenberg | Stars: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Marthe Snorresdotter Rovik, Kim Arne Hagen, Johanna Mørck
Votes: 9,931
7. Cold Prey III (2010)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
Takes place in the 80's where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
Director: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose | Stars: Ida Marie Bakkerud, Julie Rusti, Kim Falck, Pål Stokka
Votes: 4,574
8. Dead Snow (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeppe Beck Laursen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Geir Vegar Hoel
Votes: 69,976 | Gross: $0.04M
9. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,105,159 | Gross: $44.02M
10. 30 Days of Night (2007)
R | 113 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
Votes: 189,230 | Gross: $39.57M
11. Let the Right One In (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Votes: 226,651 | Gross: $2.12M
12. Ravenous (1999)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
Votes: 43,217 | Gross: $2.06M
13. Dead of Winter (1987)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ
Votes: 4,671 | Gross: $2.41M
14. Peopletoys (1974)
R | 88 min | Horror
After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
Directors: Sean MacGregor, David Sheldon | Stars: Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall
Votes: 1,893
15. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,259 | Gross: $61.28M
16. My Little Eye (2002)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five people are offered one million dollars to spend six months together in an isolated mansion, with cameras watching their every move.
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: Sean Cw Johnson, Kris Lemche, Stephen O'Reilly, Laura Regan
Votes: 12,890
17. Whiteout (2009)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.
Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short
Votes: 40,811 | Gross: $10.28M
18. Frozen (I) (2010)
R | 93 min | Adventure, Thriller
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Director: Adam Green | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, Kevin Zegers, Ed Ackerman
Votes: 80,672 | Gross: $0.24M
19. Black Mountain Side (2014)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
At a cold, desolate, northmost outpost in Canada, an archaeological discovery is made. A specialist arrives Nov. 1. Strange things happen. All contact with the outside world is down.
Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj | Stars: Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams
Votes: 6,190
20. Wind River (2017)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wildlife officer, who is haunted by a tragedy that happened because of him, teams up with an FBI agent in solving a murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation and hopes to get redemption from his past regrets.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene, Kelsey Asbille
Votes: 280,301 | Gross: $33.80M
21. Blood Glacier (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife.
Director: Marvin Kren | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Santos, Hille Beseler
Votes: 4,116
22. Wind Chill (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Director: Gregory Jacobs | Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Ned Bellamy
Votes: 24,961 | Gross: $0.02M
23. A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne, Vic Perrin
Votes: 1,080
24. The Colony (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Director: Jeff Renfroe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan
Votes: 47,099
25. Devil's Pass (2013)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of students go to the location of the infamous Dyatlov pass incident to make a documentary, but things take a turn for the worse as the secret of what happened there is revealed.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, Luke Albright, Ryan Hawley
Votes: 27,614
26. Unnatural (2015)
R | 89 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A morally ambiguous corporation experiments with genetic modification resulting in the creation of a man hunting creature. When it escapes, a group of unsuspecting cabin dwellers become its prey in a horrifying game of cat and mouse.
Director: Hank Braxtan | Stars: James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn, Ron Carlson, Ray Wise
Votes: 2,169
27. Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011 Video)
R | 93 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to deformed cannibals.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene, Tristan Carlucci
Votes: 27,949
28. Knuckleball (II) (2018)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12-year-old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Director: Michael Peterson | Stars: Michael Ironside, Munro Chambers, Luca Villacis, Kathleen Munroe
Votes: 1,948
29. Blood Tracks (1985)
Unrated | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
Directors: Mats Helge Olsson, Derek Ford | Stars: Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick, Naomi Kaneda, Brad Powell
Votes: 688
30. Harbinger Down (2015)
R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
While studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and its crew uncover frozen Soviet space shuttle and unintentionally release a monstrous organism from it.
Director: Alec Gillis | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Camille Balsamo, Matt Winston, Reid Collums
Votes: 6,853
31. The Lodge (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage
Votes: 57,755
32. Let It Snow (2020)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
Separated from her fiance after sneaking onto a restricted slope, Mia, a free-riding snowboarder, must survive not only against nature, but also the masked snowmobile rider in black who is out for her blood.
Director: Stanislav Kapralov | Stars: Ivanna Sakhno, Alex Hafner, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Mariam Sulakadze
Votes: 1,718
33. Werewolves Within (2021)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Feature adaptation of the video game where werewolves attack a small town.
Director: Josh Ruben | Stars: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Sarah Burns
Votes: 25,076
34. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.
Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East
Votes: 24,251
35. Slash/Back (2022)
86 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In Nunavut, four girls who like horror and alien movies, love their phones and even their poor elders who believe in shapeshifters because "they didn't have the internet" realize local disappearances are linked to a shapeshifting alien.
Director: Nyla Innuksuk | Stars: Kristian Bruun, Shaun Benson, Troy James, Nalajoss Ellsworth
Votes: 1,944
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