Original Title: A Cold Night's Death. Address: Jerrold Freedman. Cast: Robert Culp (Robert Jones), Eli Wallach (Enari Frank), Michael C. Gwynne (Val Adams). Duration: 74 minutes .
Symptoms: Scientists arrive at a base in the Antarctic to continue some experiments in observing the response of primates to extreme cold or altitude. Upon arrival they discover that the fellow who had to relieve frozen dead without any apparent signs of violence. Soon feel they are not alone and that a foreign presence hangs over them: doors and windows that open mysteriously, nervousness of the monkeys, appliances stop working ...
Diagnosis: The 70's is, without doubt, the golden age of the genre (fantasy is understood) we find the Most modern classics that have shaped the way we understand the fanta-terror today: Alien, Jaws, Halloween or Star Wars are just some of the most egregious examples, but the list is endless.
we add a great promotion of professionals, without the author's conceit that pollute the young filmmakers of today, who understood the craft of filmmaking as a craftsman and worked without any resort to television, providing worthy products that today would be unthinkable to find on the desktop of any of our chains. In that decade, the word "telefilm" had no derogatory meaning has today and there were frequent flirtations with the fantasy genre. By way of example the two films starring Kolchack , a kind of journalist specializing in the supernatural or Something Evil ( Something diabolical 1972) directed by a very young Steven Spielberg certainly featuring both solid television actor Darren McGavin. "One cold night death part of these more than worthy gender telefilms made with firm knowledge of the facts and, in that sense, is a real rarity and is today almost forgotten title despite having multiple attractions. 
first thing that draws attention to the very beginning of your footage is the context in which we stand: an experimental station away from any inhabited place, where scientists take their cues from other primates in extreme conditions . Space immediately reminds us of the indispensable The Thing (John Carpenter , 1982 ), where a group of scientists were decimated by an external threat. And is that a group of people locked in a confined space, threatened from abroad and unable to get help, has provided encouraging results since Howard Hawks (in fact, no director credited in the first version of The thing ) did masterful River Bravo in 1959. 
Nearly two only actors bear the brunt of the action. Robert Culp (unforgettable agent Maxwell The great American hero) interprets Robert solvency rather than a scientific man of action, since the first time clearly demonstrates his contempt for entrustment and his forced detention. He is the first one seems to realize that there is something strange, indefinite threat grows and seems to corner as the days pass. With him Frank, played by the great Eli Wallach , who represents the perfect scientist, a man who enjoys testing and analysis, all the time denying the existence of any mystery that cast doubt on their rational logic. The collision of two disparate personalities not long in coming as the strange events are occurring. Robert tries to open the eyes of Frank, while this is not only a strategy to force his fellow scientists to evacuate. The latent threat serve as a trigger for the onset of old personal ghosts in the form of mutual recriminations. 
The initial approach is suitable for producing anxiety in the viewer since it has no more data than the protagonists, revealing the strange events at the same pace as them. The problem that prevents the film comes to round the results is, first, the tentative address Jerrold Freedman Tanning television producer here offers a very functional staging, with a flat photograph that fully leverages disturbing possibilities of decoration. On the other hand, it also fails to maintain Freddman account balance during the whole film, slowing too much the solution to the mystery. This means that, once the viewer has already made its own guess, need confirmation of some questions for the narrative forward smoothly and avoid downtime.
However, a disturbing use of sound and music, superb performances of Culp and Wallach and those last fifteen minutes really disturbing, make the balance is decidedly positive. The absence of any effect anything gory and emphatic resolution of the film able to generate in the viewer a true uncomfortable feeling is reinforced at the end where the character played by Wallach seen as its most terrible suspicions (ours in fact) are confirmed.
Robert Culp in search of his mystery
can not miss it: The lover of terror in its most metaphysical.
Refrain: who seek horror and blood in an explicit way.
Sale: not released on DVD. In his day if you came to be released on VHS.
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