be we all watch the same movie here . i will admit that scream of a winter night be a great title for a movie and and a sound premise which would eventually be put to good use represent nine or ten college age acquaintance who do not seem to really like or even know each other take a road trip to a summer camp cottage close for the off season where a gruesome mass murder ( oddly heard but not see during the opening credit ) take place 30 year prior . on the way they stop at a local hick cracker gas station operate by what appear to be the evil twin of the beverly hillbilly and who try to warn them off to no avail . so far so good . the problem begin when the kid start sit around tell each other ubran legend ish scary story to pass the time . which would be just fine except that they seem to be tell each other these story because they do not have anything else to talk about . there be no exposition and no character development and and no visible bond exist between them except for one couple who do not even have sex on screen since the movie be only rat pg . then there be john and the knucklehead who organize the road trip . to call him annoy be complimentary . he be insufferable . the idea be to try and portray his character a some kind of a nerd or dork whose family use to frequent the cottage . the film unintentionally do a good job a set him up a a potential lunatic who lure his associate to this setting just to brutally murder them all and but no dice . he just annoy and we do not even get the satisfaction of watch him die in an amusingly ironic manner after be inflict with his presence for an hour plus . the horror anthology angle be interesting though and and all three of the story show have effective moment . the creepshow film be still the modern day king of the horror anthology tradition and one that stretch back to the 1940s with the incomparable dead of night and another classic be mario bava fabulous black sabbath from 1963 and the overlooked h. p. lovecraft collection necronomicon represent book of the dead from 1992. usually a horror anthology have some sort of link story connect three or four segment that each tell their own twisted tale of the macabre . the unique angle this time be that the story be actually populate by the people in the linking segment a sort of alternate identity . which could have be a great idea except that the people be so unlikeable that the story segment do not serve a a reprieve from their company . there one really odd part when the kid start tap and click out a rhythm which slowly build into a cacophony that drive one of the female into a rage . i would have cold cock them all for be so childishly obnoxious . they do not even seem to be drink from the empty beer can they wave around a prop and and john antic of deliberately try to startle the female in the group quickly become unlikely . somebody would have knock a couple of his teeth out for be such a dick and split the scene . it isn not funny and it isn not scary and and the tension that build be not base on fright but a diminishing ability to be patient with him . eventually the film do build to a satisfyingly gruseome supernatural climax that apparently take so much of the movie low budget production cost that the filmmaker appear to have literally run out of money while four of the ten be make a frenzied escape through the wood . the movie end with a freeze frame of them run hand in hand and and i can not help but wonder if maybe the last few minute of intended action be abandon at the film lab when they couldn not afford the processing bill . so again i ask and be we all watch the same movie here . i enjoy low budget regionally make horror movie star no name talent and have a particular fondness for anthology chiller . but the legend surround the film be more interesting than anything which take place on screen . one of the college dorm use for one of the story segment be rumor to be haunt and and maverick wunderkind quentin tarentino have champion the movie and supposedly own his own print which he screen for people who do not know any good than to go do something else just because it quentin tarentino show it . he could show old toothpaste commercial and people would watch in rapt awe . the film be pioneer in the sense that it do beat friday the 13th into theater by over a year with a story of college kid be menace at an off season summer camp . and it also proceed the evil dead with a story of college kid sit around a disused cabin run afoul of some sort of hyperkenetic supernatural force of evil . but since this evil be never explain and the summer camp angle isn not ever explore a a set the result be a null sum gain . they could have be anywhere and the summer camp angle only serve a a device to make it more difficult for them to seek out help when their lamps start run out of fuel . which might be the most frightening aspect of the movie represent be stick sit around in the dark with john and his creepy and disturb sense of humor and not even have a radio to listen to . a college road trip to a disused cabin with no tune . come on . so i just do not get it . my expectation be perhaps a bit high and especially base on the title which suggest a winter time set and horror hijynx involve snow and sleigh and rust shovel and colorful scarf and lose mitten and homicidal christmas elf and maybe a possessed snowman . if you ask me it look like they make the wrong movie . great title though . 4/10 .