5 Movies to Make You Forget the Heat...

Hot town, summer in the city...it's really F*ing hot here in the U.K. and I hear there's a heat wave in the U.S. too. Here's five movies that will, hopefully, make you forget the heat...there will be a lot of snow involved.

Let The Right One In
Brilliant, moving, surreal, moody Swedish film that just happens to have a vampire in it. It takes place during winter. There's a lot of snow...and blood.
Oh and the title comes from a Morrissey song.








The Thing

Takes place in the Antartic, so there's lots of snow...and blood. Horror master John Carpenter's masterpiece sci-fi/horror about an alien in a research station. It stars Kurt Russell and has some really cool special effects.

30 Days of Night
Another vampire movie...but these vampires don't sparkle, they are feral, almost rodent-like pack animals. As it's set in Alaska, there's a lot of snow...and blood. And Josh Harnett isn't too annoying.








The Shining

Dad goes mad as the winter caretaker of The Overlook Hotel. There's lots of snow...and blood. Check out the Wikipedia page..there's a lot of theories about this movie...oh and the film 'Room 237'.








And now for a non-horror movie, though the story is horrific and brave.

The Great White Silence
This is a docementary about the Terra Nova Expedition between 1910-13, from which Robert Falcon Scott and four others never returned. It's about the Antartic so there's a lot of snow...no blood this time.
We had the Scott Expedition Exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London last year and it was breath-taking.

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