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If this film were all about surprise, it'd be a miserable failure: any viewer with half a brain knows in the first twenty minutes what the 'twist ending' is going to be. But that's not the filmmakers' focus. The concern here, I think, was with atmosphere (tense gloom broken up by an occasional splash of surprisingly ballsy gore) and character. The characters are rather generic--grumpy father, tens... read more

For the past 20 years, Frank Harrington has grudgingly driven his family to celebrate Christmas with his mother-in-law. This year, he takes a shortcut. It's the biggest mistake of his life: The nightmare begins. A mysterious woman in white wanders through the forest, leaving death in her wake. A terrifying black car - its driver invisible - carries the victims into the heart of the night. Every road sign points to a destination they never reach. The survivors succumb to panic, to madness; deeply buried secrets burst to the surface, and Christmas turns into a living hell.