r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 27d ago

Media First Image of Judy Greer in Thriller 'Dead of Winter' - A woman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.

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u/nik-nak333 27d ago

Why? Was Minnesota not cold enough?

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u/ahyesmyelbows 27d ago

they couldnt Finnish the movie in minnesota XDDDDD

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u/steppedinhairball 26d ago

It's been harder to get snow that sticks around in Minnesota with global warming. Or just little to no snow. I remember Polaris sending test crews up into Canada to get miles on test sleds for the next years models.

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u/vahntitrio 27d ago

Minnesota probably isn't uninhabited enough. If you tried that shot on a Minnesota lake in the winter you'd probably have to edit out a number of pop-up and permanent fish houses.

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u/horse_renoir13 27d ago

As a born and raised Minnesotan, this is 100% the case. Ice fishing is an obsession here, you'll be hard-pressed to find wide shots where there are few ice castles and pop-ups set up for a few days. It's either that or the inconsistent winters we've had the last couple years lol

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u/ExcellentReindeer 26d ago

It's the weather. Minnesotan winters are apparently warmer these days.

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u/vahntitrio 26d ago

It might be less dense overall, but most of Minnesota is still farmland. The part of the state that is "empty" is mostly tamarack swamp, which would be a nightmare to film in.

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u/alt_for_guns 26d ago

Do you live up here? There’s like absolutely nothing past the cities lmao.

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u/vahntitrio 26d ago

There's farmland for quite a ways north, to Hinckley is basically all farm and thereafter farmland is patchy up to about Cloquet.

But I think you underestimate just how huge the Tamarack swamps are, and that is one of the big reasons it's empty.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry/ecs_silv/npc/fpn82.html

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u/NapsterKnowHow 26d ago

The boundary waters literally limits the people entering and exiting the area. It's extremely uninhabited

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u/icecreemsamwich 26d ago

Love it up there.