{"id":41006,"date":"2026-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41006"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:32:34","slug":"cold-meat-2024-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41006","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cold Meat&#8221; (2024) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z012126zview_coldmeat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cold Meat <\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> S\u00e9bastien Drouin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>S\u00e9bastien Drouin, James Kermack, Andrew Desmond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Allen Leech, Nina Bergman, Yan Tual.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Outside is dangerous. Inside is deadly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Peterson is driving through a blinding snowstorm when he stops at a diner as it is closing.\u00a0 With most places closed because of the storm, David is glad to get a hot coffee and a piece of pie.\u00a0 As he begins to eat, an angry man enters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He&#8217;s the waitress&#8217; ex.\u00a0 When the man starts to get rough, David speaks up.\u00a0 He cautions the man about his behavior.\u00a0 The man warns David, who calmly replies that if the police are called, it will be the waitress&#8217; and his word about what went down.\u00a0 The ex angrily leaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David finishes his meal and gasses up before heading back into the blinding snowstorm.\u00a0 As he&#8217;s driving on a remote road, he sees the waitress&#8217; ex in a huge truck bearing down on him.\u00a0 David is nearly forced off the road.\u00a0 He speeds up and is able to beat the truck around a corner.\u00a0 David drives off-road and turns off his lights.\u00a0 The truck passes by.\u00a0 David waits until he is sure it is safe to leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only to find his car stuck in the quickly fallen snow.\u00a0 Unable to get his car free, David realizes he may freeze to death before the snowstorm passes.<\/p>\n<p>The blizzard is going to be the least of David&#8217;s worries.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like the set-up of the story.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a nice twist early on.\u00a0 The tension increases throughout the film, but the ending is a bit of a let-down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Cold Meat <\/strong><\/em>(2024) rates 2 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z012126zview_coldmeat2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Meat (2024) Director: S\u00e9bastien Drouin Screenplay: S\u00e9bastien Drouin, James Kermack, Andrew Desmond Stars: Allen Leech, Nina Bergman, Yan Tual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41007,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41006\/revisions\/41007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}