June 15, 2025

🎬 Centigrade (2020) – Review
⭐ Starring Genesis Rodriguez, Vincent Piazza
🎬 Directed by Brendan Walsh
💬 Trapped beneath the ice. Frozen in fear. Tested by love.

Review:
Centigrade (2020) is a chilling psychological survival drama that strips its characters—and the audience—down to the rawest human instincts. Based loosely on real events, the film traps you in a snow-buried car with no escape and no certainty, only the slowly growing tension between two people who thought they knew everything about each other.

Genesis Rodriguez plays Naomi, a pregnant author traveling through Norway with her husband Matt (Vincent Piazza) when they get caught in a brutal snowstorm and wake up buried alive in their car. With temperatures plummeting and no cell signal, what begins as a frustrating delay soon becomes a harrowing fight to survive—not only against the elements, but against each other.

The film’s strength lies in its simplicity. There’s no cutaway, no timeline jumps—just one confined space, two characters, and a slow, suffocating descent into panic, hunger, and desperation. The direction by Brendan Walsh is intimate and relentless, never giving the viewer a moment of warmth or escape.

Rodriguez delivers a powerful performance, portraying not only physical endurance but emotional unraveling. Her character transitions from hopeful to haunted, from tender to terrifying—all while trying to protect her unborn child. Piazza matches her intensity, and their chemistry feels painfully real: loving, tense, accusatory, exhausted.

Claustrophobia becomes a character. The windshield fogs, the windows frost, and the silence is louder than any soundtrack. When they hear snow shifting above them, it’s as frightening as any horror score.

The emotional core hits hardest: what do you do when survival means choosing between comfort and action, between staying together and staying alive?

Quote that lingers:
“This car is our coffin unless we decide it isn’t.”

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.3/5)
Frozen, fierce, and brutally honest—Centigrade delivers icy thrills with emotional heat. A survival film that digs deep into human limits, relationships, and what it means to truly endure.