A Cold Day in Hell

2011
2.1| 1h35m| en| More Info
Released: 05 January 2011 Released
Producted By: Barnholtz Entertainment
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Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.

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witster18 Granted, I try NOT to watch terrible movies, so I'm sure there's worse out there.Where to start? I guess the opening credits. There's some train shots that would look like a 1974 promo clip for the Smokey Mountain Railway, with font and music that makes one ponder if anyone involved has ever done anything in the movie industry. Of course the promo-clip analogy was doing it justice, as the train sequence has many obvious toy train images. Fresh with Astroturf.Of course, Michael Madsen's on the cover. He's barely in the film, but just go ahead and dupe-us by putting him front and center on the best thing about the movie, the cover.The acting here is beyond terrible. It's like a Saturday night live skit, fresh with actors reading off cards, only add-on wooden faces and no enunciation. It's truly dreadful. I could make a better film than this. I'm broke, have no professional experience in front of or behind the camera, but IM CERTAIN I could make a better film than this.The few action sequences are as embarrassing as the rest of the characteristics.Avoid at all costs - unless you're just trying to see one of the worst movies of all-time. Some films are so bad they're somewhat entertaining(Birdemic, The Thing with Two Heads, etc), but this one is just bad bad. It hurts. Not a scene goes by where you don't shake your head and wonder if these people even knew they were actually live and shooting this.8/100 easily my lowest rating. Makes Master of Disguise, Glitter, Gigli, Pluto Nash, Room, Birdemic and Leonard Part 6 LOOK DECENT. Seriously!
razosuper as a filmmaker myself, I respect that they went out there and got it down. It's hard making films, getting everybody together. With that being said, this was bad. Acting is horrible, production value is bad, even low budget westerns out there now are not this bad. Badly written, characters are stale and no actors. This is what I did in high school and my first year of college. It's a student film and it's a bad student film. If you are a director, actor, writer, you should know what's good and what's bad. If you don't, you come up with a project like this. All bad. I think all filmmakers out there should watch projects like these to learn what not to do. This is suppose to be a movie but doesn't look like a movie. It was shot on "HI Def" video but looks low Deff. It needs to look cinematic but looks like it was shot by my 60 year old uncle with a VHS C camera. I don't want to hate on this but there are so many things wrong with this "movie" and as an artist you can't help to think, what are these so called "filmmakers" thinking when they put this project up? It's sad
be-bop-795-4205 This movie was apparently made by an amateur would-be filmmaker who loved watching westerns so much he tried to make one himself actually. As such it is not bad at all. Just should be kept in the family and not copied onto DVDs.But if judged by pro standards, the movie is a disaster in almost every respect you can think of. First off, it is a disaster in casting. I saw a silent question of 'what am I doing here?" in the eyes of quite a few actors appearing on the screen. Michael Madsen is NOT in a leading role, and his repeating cameos are so unnecessary for the... plot (OK I'll put this word) it makes YOU wonder what is he doing there anyway. Actors' performance (Madsen included) is as cheesy as is the dialogue. The rule here seems to be, the smaller is the role the more it's tolerable. Silent roles go best and even show some skills. The plot is an epic disaster. Epic in a sense that there are so many lose ends and episodes leading nowhere, you soon start feeling like you're in the middle of season two of something. I actually smelled the rat as soon as 5 minutes into the film when a mass killing of children was used just to show how bad are the bad... The camera work is even more awful than everything else except for those few citations from classic examples that look meaningful thanks to the originals. And and if you're in for some beautiful scenery, look elsewhere. Some reviewers hated the music too, I'd say it is more weird than bad, and at least there's some measure of individuality to it. Directing... what the hell?..I'd like to stress there's no evil in making amateur movies, or low budget movies, or home camera movies, or one-man movies as such. But what I'd expect from these is some originality, some sharpness, some cleverness, some acquired taste, some feeling of purpose. You don't really find it here. It's just a 'me too', and a very weak one. I sincerely hope the filmmaker is young and willing to learn. Make him a favour (and Michael Madsen too) - don't ever watch 'Cold day in hell'.
zikarro Just watch the trailer and you can see this is an awful movie. Cheesy sound track, bad acting, and it looks like it was filmed using a digital camera. This "movie" looks like something someone made to put up on YouTube. Micheal Madsens name at the top of the cover...really? He's barely in the movie. Madsen is an accomplished actor. I do hope this movie is not an indication of where his career is headed. If so, he needs to switch managers. The other actors in this movie sound and look as if it's their first time in front of a camera. Reciting lines. Terrible movie. Hardly worth the time it took to write this review. Spend your money on some other form of entertainment, not this drivel.