The best snowstorm movies and video games to beat the cold

After the holidays, we're as done with it as you are. The 4 o'clock sunsets. The unwieldy jackets and uncomfortable boots. The brutal, biting cold that cuts through your bones, revealing sneaky bodily aches you didn't even know existed. The dominance of root vegetables at every farmer's market. It's too much! And here's a depressing news flash: Winter's not even close to over. We're not even halfway there.

But we can get through it together. Welcome to Dead of Winter, an extra...cool Polygon special issue. This weekend, we're looking back at our favorite video games, movies, and TV shows that convey the horrors of winter. In this collection of lists, essays, and retrospectives, you'll read about the ice levels that froze us out and meet the frosty villains that haunt our nightmares. Kick back and chill. It's gonna be a while.