01/27/2026

Putting off putting on your snow pants & boots so you can go trudge around the driveway for an hour? Check out some of these winter classics to delay freezing your toes off a little longer.

 

Hundreds of Beavers (2024) dir Mike Cheslik

A drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

The poster for the movie Misery, featuring an ominous snowy cabin in the mountains.

Misery (1990) dir Rob Reiner

Novelist Paul Sheldon does not remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes, a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner, forever.

Batman Returns (1992) dir Tim Burton

Set during Christmas in Gotham City, the film follows Batman as he confronts corrupt businessman Max Shreck and deformed crime boss Oswald Cobblepot , whose bid for power threatens the city. Their schemes are further complicated by Shreck's former secretary Selina Kyle who seeks revenge against him as Catwoman.

 

The movie poster for Batman Returns with headshots of Batman, Catwoman, and The Penguin
The movie poster for The Thing featuring a hooded figure with light pouring from where his face should be.

The Thing (1982) dir John Carpenter

Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.

Wind River (2017) dir Taylor Sheridan

When wildlife officer Cory Lambert discovers the body of a young woman on Wyoming's Wind River Native American reservation, FBI agent Jane Banner is sent to investigate. After Banner hires Lambert as her tracker, the two must brave the isolated winter terrain and local criminal underworld in order to crack the case. 

The poster for the movie Wind River featuring a man armed with a rifle walking through a snowy field with his back to us. A woman and man's faces are half shadowed on either side of the poster.
The poster for the movie Groundhog Day featuring Bill Murray stuck in a clock on a windowsill as Andie MacDowell looks on.

Groundhog Day (1993) dir Harold Ramis

A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where it is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, but then he realizes that he might be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people, and doing the same thing every day.

Fargo (1996) dir Joel & Ethan Coen

A struggling car salesman pays two losers to kidnap his wife so that he can swindle the ransom money from his father-in-law.

The poster for the movie Fargo, featuring a needlepoint car flipped over in the background with a body laying in the snow in the foreground.
The poster for the movie The Empire Strikes Back featuring Han Solo, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, C-3P0, R2-D2, Chewbacca, and Darth Vader over an icy space background.

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir Irvin Kershner

Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the malevolent Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Alliance, led by Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. As the Empire goes on the offensive, Luke trains to master the Force so he can confront the Emperor's powerful disciple, Darth Vader.

 

The Shining (1980) dir Stanley Kubrick

Jack Torrance is a writer who, along with his family, comes to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel. He is the off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before, but maybe he has. The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.

The poster for the movie The Shining, featuring a grinning Jack breaking down the bathroom door with an axe while a terrified Wendy brandishes a knife.
The poster for the movie Dead Snow featuring a man from the elbows down holding a chainsaw as zombies dressed as Nazis rise from the snow behind him.

Dead Snow (2009) dir Tommy Wirloka

A group of medical students take a ski vacation to a remote cabin in the Norwegian Alps, where they uncover a dark secret from WWII. This discovery results in the resurrection of a battalion of uncontrollable, unstoppable and extremely undead Nazis. What follows is a blitzkrieg of bloodshed, body parts and action-packed zombie carnage.