There’s an eerie supremacy to the island that challenges the protagonist’s own authority instead, Friend appears a vulnerable observer upon a world with its own terms and whims.Ĭolour is beautifully rendered to emphasize this vulnerability. Harsh Atlantic waves thump perpetually over crags and ridged rock the sparse, volcanic landscape looms impressively through Daniel Aranyó’s sweeping wide angles. Before long, Friend (whose name never really stops raising eyebrows) meets Gruner ( Divergent’s Ray Stevenson): the cantankerous, but hardy lighthouse keeper who is apparently the island’s only other inhabitant. Following the First World War, a young man named Friend ( David Oakes) travels to a secluded island somewhere in the Southern Atlantic, to work as a meteorologist after the previous one has allegedly died of typhus. When Friend loses everything to a fire in an attempt to defeat the creatures, he and Gruner must know work together in the lighthouse to fend off the monsters attacking them each night.Uncovering the Horrors of Dead Space: A Comprehensive Guide to the Beloved Video Game Series Frozen BeautyĬold Skin appears primarily concerned with the fantasy and science fiction genres, which makes sense given screenwriters Jesús Olmo and Eron Sheean are drawing from Albert Sánchez Piñol’s 2002 Catalan novel La pell freda. Little did Friend know that Gruner has kept useful information - like the horde of amphibious, humanoid sea creatures that attack at night.

In this desolate job, there is only one other person on the island - Gruner, the lighthouse caretaker.

He is set to replace the former weather official, but he is nowhere to be found. For the next twelve months, his entire world will consist of a deserted cabin, trees, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea.'Ī young man named Friend is assigned as a weather official in a remote island for one year. He finds no trace of the man he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. On board is a young man who is on his way to assume the post of weather observer and live in solitude at the end of the earth. The summary: 'In 1914, on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, a ship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. I read the English version of the book after the movie so I'll talk about it later in the post. It is adapted from the book originally written in Catalan, La Pell Freda by the Spanish author Albert Sánchez Piñol.

I was looking for new movies to watch and I read about the movie Cold Skin from Caitlin R. For this very reason, we shall never be truly close to those we love.' “We are never very far from those we hate.

La pell freda by Albert Sánchez Piñol