Plot by Imdb: "While snowboarding in the ice mountains with Jannicke, her boyfriend Eirik, Mikail and his girlfriend Ingunn, Morten Tobias has an accident and breaks his leg. His friends seek shelter for the night and find an abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere. They discover that the hotel was closed in 1975 when the son of the owners vanished in the mountains. However on the next morning they find that they are trapped in the hotel with a psychopath killer, and they have to protect themselves trying to survive"
Excellent old fashion Slasher that uses the codes of the genre to re-introduce some brutal reality to the "seen a million time" story of a mysterious psycho-killer on a murder rampage. The set is highly original (if you're not Norwegian) and the technical aspect of it all is clearly perfectly handled. The director has indeed understood perfectly that the restraints of the genre are its force, the more you restrain yourself from the pleasure of making "iconic" images, the more likely you are to create some new original ones. Cold Prey is actually doing that, creating a great original boogieman and putting its adolescent cast in terrible and almost realistic situations. As classic as it can be, Cold Prey really delivers, where many fails. I liked it very much, as I did with it's sequel ("Fritt Vilt 2 " aka "Cold Prey 2") that, unfortunately, mimics a little too much Rick Rosenthal "Halloween II".
Enjoy this Nordic scare and remember to put a scarf on or you will soon cough blood, my friend.
Enjoy this Nordic scare and remember to put a scarf on or you will soon cough blood, my friend.
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