FRITT VILT (COLD PREY)

Norway, 2006, 97 minutes, Colour.
Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Endre Martin Midtstigen.
Directed by Roar Uthaug.


1.Acclaim for the film as a horror film? In the American pattern? Yet distinctively European? Norwegian? Sequels?

2.The moderate tone compared with American slasher movies? The emphasis on the horror rather than the violence?

3.The Norwegian settings, the beauty of the mountains? The sinister hotel? Interiors? Special effects? Stunt work? Musical score?

4.The title, the opening credits, the collage of information about people who had disappeared? The young boy and his being chased? The five going on the trip? Becoming cold prey?

5.The young adult group, in the car, talk, ribbing each other? The relationship between Ingunn and Mikal? Morten Tobias and his being alone? Jannicke with Eirik?

6.The set-up, tourism, the information about Norwegian skiers at Easter? Settling in? Discussions? Climbing the mountain? The vista?

7.Morten Tobias and his accident, fixing it? Finding the hotel, going in, the search?

8.The atmosphere of the hotel, deserted? The corridors (like The Shining)? The cellars, the rooms?

9.The characters: Eirik and his being the leader of the group, going to find help? Jannicke as being the heroine, strong, surviving? Mikal and Ingunn, the relationship, tentative, Mikal and his abruptness, Ingunn and her being the first victim? Mikal searching for her? His death? Morten Tobias, the injury, waiting by himself, Jannicke supporting him? being pursued by the killer?

10.The mysterious killer, no explanations, his pick, appearance, the killings?

11.Jannicke, the final confrontation, her feigning to be dead, the bodies thrown into the crevasse? Her finding the knife? The confrontation with the killer, her winning out?

12.The popular ingredients – done with an above average attention to the suspense and horror, and a modicum of plot and character development?