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[[File:Necronomiconbookofthedead 1993film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Promotional poster for ''Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993 film)'']]

"The Cold" is a segment from the anthology film:  ''[[Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993 film)]]''

==Summary==
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In a loose adaptation of "[[Cold Air (fiction)]]", reporter Dale Porkel is suspicious of a string of strange murders in Boston over the past several decades. Confronting a woman at a local apartment building, he is invited in only to find the entire place is very cold. The woman he has confronted claims to suffer a rare skin condition which has left her sensitive to heat and light. Demanding the truth or his story runs as-is, Dale is told the story of Emily Osterman's arrival to Boston twenty years before, and her strange and doomed romance with a scientist obsessed with the cold.


==Details==

* Release Date:  1993
* Country/Language:  USA, English
* Genres/Technical:  Anthology, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
* Starring:  [[Jeffrey Combs]] et.al.
* Director:  Shusuke Kaneko ("The Cold")
* Writer:  [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (original short stories), Kazunori Itō ("The Cold")
* Producer/Production Co:  Takashige Ichise, [[Brian Yuzna]]
* View Trailer:  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTkcIaZHyI link])
* IMDB: ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107664/ link])

==Ratings==
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* Rated:  R (Adult Content, Sex and Nudity, Violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SSs__ (Two and a Half Tentacles: Lovecraftian)

The anthology's component stories vary in how faithfully they are adapted from Lovecraft's work from recognizable adaptations, to misguided pastiches.  In this case, it's a very loose adaptation of one of Lovecraft's less "Lovecraftian" stories, with a whole bunch of extra (and even less Lovecraftian) stuff tossed in.

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===
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* [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]:  "The Cold" is a bit of a mess:  it takes "[[Cold Air (fiction)]]" as a starting point, adds a romantic subplot, a serial-killer subplot, a newspaper investigation, and ends up with a whole that feels like a bit less than the sum of its parts.  (The ''[[Cool Air (1971 short)|Night Gallery]]'' treatment of the same story, which also adds a romantic subplot, is superior in almost every way....)


==Synopsis==
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THE COLD:  Reporter Dale Porkel is suspicious of a string of strange murders in Boston over the past several decades. Confronting a woman at a local apartment building, he is invited in only to find the entire place is very cold. The woman he has confronted claims to suffer a rare skin condition which has left her sensitive to heat and light. Demanding the truth or his story runs as-is, Dale is told the story of Emily Osterman's arrival to Boston twenty years before, and her strange and doomed romance with a scientist obsessed with the cold.


===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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==Associated Mythos Elements==
* Fiction: "The Cold" is (loosely) based on "[[Cool Air (fiction)]]"


==Keeper Notes==
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