Release Date
September 26, 2025 (Limited)
Digital Date
October 21, 2025
Director
Brian Kirk
Writer
Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, Dalton Leeb
Cast
Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Gaia Wise, Cuan Hosty-Blaney, Dalton Leeb, Paul Hamilton, Lloyd Hutchinson, Brian F. O’Byrne
Studio
Running Time
97 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for violence and language
What is Dead of Winter about?
Hit by a blizzard, a grief-stricken loner (Emma Thompson) gets lost among backroads near a Minnesotan lake and stops for help at a remote cabin in the woods. Here she discovers a young woman (Laurel Marsden) kidnapped by a desperate couple (Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca) who are armed and intent on murder. Isolated and without cell service, this unlikely hero realizes she is the woman’s only hope of survival.
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In Dead of Winter, Emma Thompson plays a geriatric heroine when she stumbles across a kidnapped teenager being held prisoner by a sadistic Judy Greer, showing her true colors, in a remote cabin. You guess the season.
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