WINTERKILL

by Xavier T. Jefferson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 9, 1979

Grossly amateurish and insensitive melodramatics--as a large group of winter vacationers at a Minnesota ski lodge endures a five-day blizzard in which the wind-chill factor hits seventy below. Actually, many of the vacationers are scattered around at cabins owned by the lodge. But before it's over, 19 are dead, and we follow them death by death as ""the great white shark""--the blizzard--cuts them down, assisted by a mass killer stalking the countryside with a rifle and drilling everyone. The characters are dull-edged clich‚s one and all, and aside from the discovery and identification of corpse after corpse, there's little action: a lady doctor fights for the courage to amputate her boyfriend's wounded leg, and also has to deliver a baby, but both of these events conveniently take place offstage. The high point by default: when a dozen lost college students strip naked at the blizzard's peak intensity and have sex to stay warm, Slush.

Pub Date: Dec. 9, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Ashley

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1979

Categories: FICTION