Cold Meat (2023) (Film Review)

Cold Meat (2023) This film is a little like Duel (1971) and Cold Road (2024), which is itself influenced and inspired by Steven Spielberg’s film. Or maybe not ! Cold Road is an entirely Aboriginal thriller. Here too, the film is set in the coldest part of winter. And this time we’re somewhere in the American Rockies.

But, alas, Cold Meat is not a good film like the two I mentioned. There’s certainly an excellent start and the actors are more than decent. Then the film takes a direction, but there’s a rather quick turnaround that I clearly didn’t see coming. And it took me a while to work out what was really going on.

After that, the film takes on the feel of a closed-door film set in a car. And one of the characters disappears.
Unfortunately, we also end up sinking into a certain boredom, despite some interesting dialogue.
The film loses interest. We’re hoping for an incredible ending. The fantastic touch spoils everything. I’m glad we’re talking about native legends, but we were going for a thriller in the first place. Not science fiction.

Well, we’ve learned that chloroform doesn’t work in real life in the same way as it does in fiction.
In various works, chloroform is often used by criminals to put their victims to sleep. Such use is not credible. Firstly, because chloroform takes several minutes, not seconds, to take effect, theoretically giving the victim time to struggle, bite or call for help. What’s more, its effect is not long-lasting. Anaesthetists who used it had to regularly renew the dose to keep their patients unconscious.

Rumours of criminals putting their victims to sleep with chloroform hidden in a bottle of perfume, which they would then spray on their targets, are no more credible. Chloroform is far too volatile a gas to remain so concentrated in the air as to make someone faint.

We also learn that stabbings don’t kill like they do in the movies either. That death was slow and that several blows were required.

Yes, you’ve guessed it, this is a real psychopath film. The very last scene is excellent… albeit over the top. Just to give us a jump scare we won’t soon forget.

My Rating