![]() ![]() ![]() This leads to a great shot where Eirik breaks an upstairs window and the camera pulls back ever-so-slowly to reveal more of the shadowy interior. Inconveniently out of cell phone range (of course) and in need of medical attention, they find a run-down ski lodge where they decide to take shelter for the night. Our protagonists are out snowboarding on a particularly remote mountainside (where people have been going missing for decades, I might add), when Morten breaks his leg in an accident. Instead of just establishing future victims, the film takes the time to get to know our characters before killing them off. And, yes, this is a slasher, but in the slow-burn, Carpenter's Halloween kind of way. One thing that caught me by pleasant surprise was that all the characters were actually likeable, unlike the usual slasher fare of characters who are just there to add to the bodycount. The first act of Cold Prey ( Fritt Vilt in its native Norwegian) has us meeting our main characters: main couple Jannicke and Eirik, PDA couple Mikal and Ingunn, and quippy friend Morten. I know there's a lot of virulently anti-dub folks out there, but I didn't mind too much because the dub was, in my opinion, pretty well-done (and after an adolescence spent watching Godzilla movies and localized anime on TV, I can take it.) The malfunctioning air conditioner, the hastily-patched-up hole in the living room window and the Texas-in-July heat have all combined to make this a hotter-than-usual Sunday evening, so what better way is there to beat the heat than to spend a couple hours in an abandoned hotel somewhere in Norway? Oh, sure, there's a crazed killer around, but that just adds to the charm!įirst things first, I watched the dubbed version of it, since that was what was on Netflix Instant when I watched it. Thanks to Stacie Ponder for the selection.) (This is part of the Final Girl Film Club series of reviews. ![]()
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