Dead of Winter

Christa joins a tour group bound for the snowy Rocky Mountains, hoping the trip will let her lay the ghosts of her past to rest. A fierce snowstorm cuts the outing short, and the group takes shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. The quarters are cramped and the temperature keeps falling, but Christa believes they can sit out the weather safely.

She is wrong. During the night the tour guide disappears, and in the morning his severed head is found impaled on a tree outside the cabin. The storm has isolated the group completely, and one of the strangers inside kills for sport and has no plan to stop.

This is a horror thriller set in a single remote location, with a closed circle of suspects and a body count that rises as the storm worsens. There is no relief: the cold, the confinement and the suspicion between strangers drive everything, and the violence is graphic from the first morning.

Christa has to work out whom she can trust before the survivors are picked off one by one. The mountain offers no way out, and the cabin may be where she dies.