I love Scandinavia... I'm mad about their culture, history and mythology from when I was really a small kid.
And I've been in Norway, I've been on the Jotunheimen and I found everything simply awesome.
Recently I discovered also a really interesting and lively movies scene (Troll Hunter, Let The Right One In, Dead Snow... talking about the firsts that comes to my mind).
And now this Cold Prey.
A group of friends found themselves trapped in an old abandoned hotel after one of them had a bad accident with the snowboard... trapped because they're hunted by someone.
The white, cold and immense Jotunheimen is a perfect place for a thriller/horror like this one and, paired with the big, creepy hotel, become a main character itself inside the movie.
Roar Uthaug and his teams of writers created a solid story (even if not that mind-blowing... you'll guess everything from about the start) and directs a movie where the tension is always high on level and where there's a balanced amount of violence and blood.
It's clear that the main inspiration behind the main evil character comes from movies like Helloween (and it's Michael Myers) and from Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhee. The hunter in Cold Prey is a good one, but there's no match at all against those two legendary horror icons, especially on the charisma level.
All of actors performed at a really good rate and between them, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, already seen in Chernobyl Diaries and Tomas Alf Larsen, already in Troll Hunter.
And I've been in Norway, I've been on the Jotunheimen and I found everything simply awesome.
Recently I discovered also a really interesting and lively movies scene (Troll Hunter, Let The Right One In, Dead Snow... talking about the firsts that comes to my mind).
And now this Cold Prey.
A group of friends found themselves trapped in an old abandoned hotel after one of them had a bad accident with the snowboard... trapped because they're hunted by someone.
The white, cold and immense Jotunheimen is a perfect place for a thriller/horror like this one and, paired with the big, creepy hotel, become a main character itself inside the movie.
Roar Uthaug and his teams of writers created a solid story (even if not that mind-blowing... you'll guess everything from about the start) and directs a movie where the tension is always high on level and where there's a balanced amount of violence and blood.
It's clear that the main inspiration behind the main evil character comes from movies like Helloween (and it's Michael Myers) and from Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhee. The hunter in Cold Prey is a good one, but there's no match at all against those two legendary horror icons, especially on the charisma level.
All of actors performed at a really good rate and between them, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, already seen in Chernobyl Diaries and Tomas Alf Larsen, already in Troll Hunter.
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