Wind Chill is a 2007 supernatural horror film directed by Gregory Jacobs and starring Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes. The film was produced by the British Blueprint Pictures company, and George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's joint company Section Eight Productions supported the project financially. The film opened in limited distribution in April 2007 in the US, was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in August 2007, but went directly to DVD in most other markets. Plot A student ("Girl") at a Pennsylvania university uses the campus rideshare board to find a ride home to Wilmington, Delaware for Christmas. She joins another student ("Guy"), who is driving home to Wilmington. Unusually, he seems to know quite a lot about her. He claims they have a class together, although she never noticed him. They stop at an isolated gas station so Girl can use the bathroom. The Girl says she needs to wait to let her nails dry, but Guy strangely offers her a piggyback ride into the store. She refuses, but he picks her up anyway and carries her into the store. In the restroom, the door becomes stuck, and while she pounds on the door, she hears Guy and the clerk talking about her, but they do not let her out. After she manages to escape the bathroom, she angrily asks them why they didn't let her out. The two boys seem puzzled. Before they leave, Girl hears Guy asking the clerk for directions, although he claimed to have driven the route many times. Guy then leaves the highway saying the route, marked with accident crosses, is a scenic shortcut. The Girl expresses concern but consents. Girl learns that Guy has lied about living in Delaware during the conversation. Girl demands to know exactly what is going on when suddenly Guy has to swerve to avoid a car racing straight toward them. His car ends up buried in a snowdrift. Guy observes that the oncoming car left no tire tracks. While Guy walks back to the gas station, Girl sees a dark bloated figure stagger past the car. She calls out, but it only pleads not to be thrown in the river, and then a fish emerges from the specter's mouth. Guy returns, saying the gas station is closed, but she observes that he had only been gone a very short time. Huddling in the car, Guy admits he