Blu-Ray Review: 247°F

Scout Taylor-Compton, Christina Ulloa, Travis Van Winkle and Michael Copon star as four good-looking twenty-somethings who begin a weekend of partying at a lakeside cabin. However, things take a turn for the worst when three of the residents are trapped in the cabin’s sauna and another goes missing. As the heat gradually increases, we see a primal fight for survival take place.

247°F opens like your traditional teen horror – with the usual sex, alcohol and debauchery, it is when things transport to the sauna that things get interesting. Like many a good horror, 247°F (mostly) sticks to a single location throughout – the sweltering, clammy sauna. This allows Bakhia & Jguburia to amp up the claustrophobia making the feature a tense, and often uncomfortable watch.

Here traditional horror aesthetics are put to good use – including grotesque burning flesh and singeing skin, with the extreme surrounding resulting in characters becoming increasingly tense and overbearing. Lloyd S.Wagner’s screenplay does a reasonable job at maintaining interest and curiosity throughout the under 88 minute run-time and is likely to please fans in need of some quick thrills. However, it is unlikely to be one that viewers would go back to to rewatch.