The Vertical Entertainment thriller DEAD OF WINTER is set to make its SVOD debut next month, arriving on HBO Max on February 20th, 2026. The film world premiered at last year’s Locarno Film Festival before launching in US theaters on September 26th, 2025. It hit VOD and digital platforms on October 21st, 2025.
Dead of Winter is directed by Brian Kirk and written by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb. It stars Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, and Laurel Marsden.
In the film, a widowed fisherwoman, traveling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl’s only hope.
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