Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter (1987) is a frostbitten thriller from director Arthur Penn that you can watch online on iFILM, in which a struggling actress walks straight into a trap.

Katie McGovern, a New York actress with no work, jumps at an invitation to a screen test that could change everything. The drive takes her to a snowbound Victorian mansion deep in the Canadian wilderness, home to two unsettling men. First the phone line dies, then the car won't start — and it slowly dawns on her that there is no audition. She is a prisoner at the center of someone else's blackmail scheme.

Penn, the man behind Bonnie and Clyde, builds tight suspense almost entirely inside one house, with nothing but snow beyond the windows. Mary Steenburgen takes on more than one role, while Roddy McDowall is quietly chilling as the housekeeper's son. An old-fashioned but solidly built chamber thriller for fans of single-location dread. Stream Dead of Winter (1987) online on iFILM.