Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining tells the story of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), an aspiring writer and former alcoholic who moves with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and their telepathic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to the isolated Overlook Hotel, after accepting a job there as the hotels winter caretaker. However, Danny soon begins having disturbing visions, while cabin fever and writer's block cause Jack to slowly slip into insanity.
Based on the short story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. and the 1951 film The Thing from Another World, The Thing follows members of an Antarctic research program who find themselves battling a shape-shifting alien life form capable of imitating anyone it infects. The team, including helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell), mechanic Childs (Keith David) and biologist Dr. Blair (Wilford Brimley), set out to destroy "the thing" while also trying to discover who among them is still human.
Based on the cult graphic novel by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, 30 Days of Night follows a small (dwindling) group of residents, including Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife Stella Oleson (Melissa George), in the snowbound Alaskan town of Barrow as they try to fend off a gang of bloodthirsty vampires, led by head vampire Marlow (Danny Huston), who have descended upon the town during a period in winter when the sun doesn't rise for a month.
The Children follows Elaine (Eva Birthistle) and Jonah (Stephen Campbell Moore) as they head to the snow-covered English countryside with Elaine's teenage daughter Casey (Hannah Tointon) and their two young children, Miranda (Eva Sayer) and Paulie (William Howes), to celebrate New Year's with Elaine's sister Chloe (Rachel Shelley), her husband Robbie (Jeremy Sheffield) and their two children Leah (Raffiella Brooks) and Nicky (Jake Hathaway). However, their celebrations take a violent turn when the children mysteriously fall ill and begin to turn on their parents.
Set in 1982 in the snowy Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg and based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (who also wrote the screenplay), Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) tells the story of 12-year-old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant). Oskar dreams of getting revenge on the classmates who bully him and spends much of his time alone... until he befriends his strange, (eternally) 12-year-old new neighbour Eli (Lina Leandersson).
Dead Snow (Død snø) follows Martin (Vegar Hoel), Roy (Stig Frode Henriksen), Vegard (Lasse Valdal), Erlend (Jeppe Laursen), Hanna (Charlotte Frogner), Liv (Evy Kasseth Røsten) and Chris (Jenny Skavlan), seven medical students who travel to a secluded mountain cabin near Øksfjord in Norway for a fun, snow-filled weekend away only to find themselves fighting for survival against a band of Nazi zombies, led by the evil Standartenführer Herzog (Ørjan Gamst).
