I don't even recall why or how me and my lady started watching this movie on HBO. It started off slow but when it got going it got going hard. Then we forgot about it with half an hour left and finished it weeks later. That happens sometimes when between the two of us we watch a lot of TV and such. This movie is about this lady named Barb (find that out way later) that is heading out to this old fishing hole that she and her late husband used to go to and had their first date. She is driving and the weather is ass and she spots a place to ask for some help. She sees a guy and notices that there is blood on the ground after asking for directions. When she leaves and finds the fishing hole she sees this young girl with her hands tied trying to get away from the dude. He snatches her and leaves.
Barb heads back to the cabin and hears the dude talking to a woman. Barb leaves a message on the basement windows glass that she will come back to help the girl but leaves her damned glove behind. The guy is listed as Camo Jacket and the lady who is his wife is Purple Lady. Purple finds the glove and is pissed at her husband. They find the fishing hole and Camo falls in because Barb set a trap. Barb gets to the girl and can't free her but turns on all the water and dumps a bunch of meds into it. The couple return with Camo freezing his ass off and Purple mad at everyone. Purple spots Barb and shoots her in the arm. Barb is Rambo and John Wick. She sews the wound closed after getting back to her truck and seeing that the couple had ripped the wires out. Purple goes searching for Barb while Barb heads back to the cabin and uses Camo's radio for help. He finds her and they start scuffling and she ends up stabbing the fuck out of his foot. He is like “Look. That woman is my wife and she works at a hospital. She wants to harvest the young girls liver to save herself and its cool because the girl tried to kill herself.” Barb lets him go but says he needs to go to the police before a hospital. He agrees to that and leaves but bumps into Purple on the way. He dead.
Barb blows her truck up to get attention and finds some hunters who drive her back to the cabin. They are two of the dumbest ass people. They end up getting shot and killed by Purple as Camo's body sits in the car. Barb shoots Purple in the leg but gets knocked out and wakes in the basement tied up with the girl. Barb gets herself free and is immediately caught by Purple. Purple makes Barb drag supplies to a tent set up on the ice. Her plan is to have some shady surgeon come and do the transplant. Barb loosely ties the young girl down and tells Purple this shit not gonna work. They start tussling and a fire breaks out. Barb and Purple are going at it on the ice fighting for a gun as the young girl with damn near no survival instincts finally frees herself. Barb handcuffs herself to Purple's leg, says a final goodbye to her late husband, and pulls herself and Purple under the ice water and releases her husbands ashes. The young girl finds an old photo of Barb and her husband at this lake on their first date. I am not sure how to rate this movie. Even as I am typing I haven't made a score yet. The movie starts very slow and you just watching this lady prep to go somewhere in the snow and it seems to take forever but its done in a weird way where it didn't make me want to stop watching the movie. I think this would have been better in a theater in the dark perhaps.
Emma Thompson as Barb
Gaia Wise as Young Barb
Judy Greer as Purple Lady
Cúán Hosty-Blaney as Young Karl
Marc Menchaca as Camo Jacket
Laurel Marsden as Leah
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