""Stranger Things" heartthrob Joe Keery has a long history of fighting aliens in the American Midwest, and "Barbarian" breakout Georgina Campbell knows a thing or two about renting spooky spaces in a horror movie. But as co-workers in " Cold Storage," a jumpy new sci-fi comedy from director Jonny Campbell set inside a public storage unit in Kansas, the leads offer more than the sum of their resumes."
"From StudioCanal, this surprising crowdpleaser isn't strictly speaking a rom-com, despite arriving in theaters on February 13. The presence of Liam Neeson as a grizzled government scientist firmly nudges David Koepp's script more toward horror- action than horror-r omance, but flirty banter is still an essential linchpin in the screenwriter's simple, effective adaptation of his own graphic novel. The result is a single-location gross-out adventure that finds its best beats in Keery and Campbell's fizzy chemistry,"
"Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell) are night-shift employees at a storage facility built on top of an old U.S. military base. That's an impressive indictment of poor zoning restrictions, and when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel, sealed by the government long ago for obvious reasons, rising temperatures wake the microorganism from a deep sleep. What follows is a quickly escalating mess of mutation that smartly expands zombie mythology, while keeping its own world grounded and small."
Cold Storage is a jumpy single-location sci-fi comedy set inside a public storage unit in Kansas. Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell play night-shift employees whose flirty banter anchors the film while Liam Neeson appears as a grizzled government scientist. A parasitic fungus, sealed in a sublevel of the facility atop an old U.S. military base, awakens as temperatures rise and begins possessing victims' minds before causing their bodies to explode. The screenplay adapts David Koepp's graphic novel into a gross-out adventure that expands zombie mythology through clever mutation and grounded, small-scale worldbuilding. The tone leans toward horror-action with effective crowd-pleasing elements.
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