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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.

The true horror of the film is that the police believe the insane psychiatrist, and not the very sane, (until this), female protagonist.

Wretchedly ineffective would-be thriller.  Poor Mary Steenburgen.

Awful says it all. Ridiculous plot but Mary S. is pretty good.

And I have no doubt that she would be tried and convicted for three murders, and that her husband did not believe she was other than insane, and committed them. In the last scene, Kate is clearly in shock. She may well not recover from what has transpired. But the fact is, there are three dead bodies to account for, and someone is going to have to take the fall. Does anyone think it won&#39;t be Kate? I was fully prepared not to examine the movie at all, and attend more to the skills of the actors, and the set design and props. BUT then, opening with that absurd minus 40 degrees, in what is supported to be upstate New York - anywhere in upstate New York - and presented as if that was the norm, (which it never would be), and immediately following this idiotic weather report, the viewer is presented with Kate&#39;s husband, clearly a useless, and somewhat aberrant dreg of human, and her equally bland dreg of a brother. To begin a viewing with weather absurdity, plus two out of three characters that should turn most any viewer off, is quite the puzzle, as much as the latter would explain why, even though all signs were against Kate going for the &quot;audition,&quot; who wouldn&#39;t, just to get away from these jerks and her situation, thinking &quot;Anything must be better than this.&quot; And yes. Kate will be prosecuted and convicted, but might get a lighter life sentence in a hospital for the as criminally insane. Viewers can bet on it. Superb acting, filming, set design, set dressing, makeup and costuming.

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Dead of Winter

The lovely and talented Mary Steenburgen&#39;s career was in the doldrums when she accepted the lead in this pathetic, unnecessarily ugly,  would-be thriller, which also marks the nadir of director Arthur Penn&#39;s career. A starving New York actress accepts a mysterious offer to spend the weekend in snowbound New England at the eerie home of an equally creepy gentleman. What transpires is not only predictable but totally devoid of suspense or surprise.  Filled with enough sadism to make any sane moviegoer queasy, this MGM cheapie (filmed in Canada, naturally) was a deserved, long-forgotten flop. Supposedly a re-make of the superior 1945 &#39;B&#39; thriller &quot;My Name is Julia Ross,&quot; you&#39;d do well to catch the original and skip this putrid, pointless mess. Poor Mary Steenburgen had come a long way from her Oscar-winning performance in &quot;Melvyn and Howard&quot;!

Awful says it all. I switched to another channel when the police came and did not take Mary S. with them to the police station and did not try to verify her story. And if she had called 911, they would have been able to trace the call. The movie is ridiculous. Another failed attempt by Hollywood to present a credible storyline. If you think about most movie plots and break them down, they just do not make sense. Pure entertainment and fantasy. I like to be challenged mentally when I watch a movie and more often than not the challenge is to figure out why plot is ridiculous. But many people simply go to movies because they have nothing better or more interesting to do and let the movie makers do their thinking for them. It surely is still a good excuse to sit and eat a big container of popcorn and a Diet Coke with your significant other and friends even if the movie is awful. When you think about moviegoers as educated consumers, you can see why most of what comes out of studios today is garbage. On the other hand, there are enough rare exceptions to keep our interest. This is one of the throw-aways. However, Mary does do a nice job of acting. Her mistake is not throwing the script back at the filmmaker and asking for a rewrite. On the other hand, she probably had fun making the movie and got a big paycheck. But it surely was a waster of talent and money. Also, another reviewer mentioned that the Director took over from a neophyte who got fired. It does seem like a half-hearted attempt by the Director to clean up a pretty awful mess. Of course, he got paid for it, so the only ones who suffered are the investors and the viewers. I had the good sense to switch channels. Fortunately, I did not pay to see this trash in a theater.

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Dead of Winter

The true horror of the film is that the police believe the insane psychiatrist, and not the very sane, (until this), female protagonist.

Wretchedly ineffective would-be thriller. Poor Mary Steenburgen.

Awful says it all. Ridiculous plot but Mary S. is pretty good.

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