Product Description

Following a gruesome accident, five friends' idyllic snowboarding expedition to the Jotunheimen mountains takes a turn for the eerie when they are forced to take shelter from a ravaging storm in an abandoned ski lodge. Empty and silent, the cavernous lodge seems deserted -- but there are secrets here. These secrets are long buried, thought forgotten and very, very dangerous. Before the night is out, those who survive will have discovered the true meaning of terror and looked into the very face of evil. In the classic tradition of seminal horror films Wolf Creek, Halloween and My Bloody Valentine, Cold Prey is a tense, stylish and viciously unnerving journey into a frozen nightmare.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15880 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: Norwegian
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 97 minutes

Synopsis
Five young holidaymakers soon discover they're about to embark upon the trip from hell. Not long after arriving at an idyllic ski resort, a member of the group is incapacitated and the others soon discover that the altitude renders their mobile phones useless and that they are stranded miles from anywhere. Anywhere that is except for a derelict hotel nearby. Seeking refuge at the abandoned hotel, it's not long before this group of friends realise that they're not alone...

Customer Reviews

superb
This is an excellently crafted film - in fact a bit of a master class in film making overall. Pace, characterisation, plotting, cinematography, soundtrack - 'Cold Prey' has it all.

The old hotel is genuinely creepy. The terror is built up carefully. The characters are human and likeable. And there is a great twist at the end.

Something to watch on a cold winter's night. Brilliant.

Excellent Norwegian Horror
A great horror movie this is. I have to admit, this is the first Norwegian horror I have seen, but it is really great. It is about a group of young people that go skiing way off piste. When one has an accident and breaks his leg, they cannot get back to their car, so they stay at a deserted hotel for the night, but they are not alone.....

This movie is original and has some good scares too. Don't let the subtitles put you off, it is worth it.

Cold Prey - Hot Blooded
Collecting slasher films isn't like many other vices; in the realm of the teen-kill completist, the good stuff is popular for a reason and afterwards there's a barren landscape of trash, crap and pond-scum horror. Every now and then, you'll come upon a film that makes it all worthwhile: Cold Prey is one of them.

The American approach to 'improving' the cut-and-dried stalk n' slash opus is to make it gorier and funnier (see: Hatchet) and self referential (Behind the Mask). Fun as those films are, they do little to involve the viewer any more in what's going on, concentrating too much on the effects work to bother carving out good characters who the audience might, God forbid, care about!

In Cold Prey there are no obnoxious teens with 'Please Kill Me' stamped on their foreheads, no explicitly dumb behaviour and a restrained level of bloodshed. This latter point may disappoint some horror fans but then the more cineliterate/mature viewer will find a lot to like about this bleak, gloomy festival of tension.

The relationships between the characters are more complex here than found in most genre examples and it all feeds well into their eventual fates, as the hulking Jason-like killer (equipped for his snowbound living arrangements) skulks the halls of the abandoned ski-lodge, attacking those who think they are alone. This is a film that maximises the tension of the situation with simple set-ups and realistic reactions as escape plans are thwarted and numbers dwindle until only likeable heroine Jannicke is left.

The finale is great, if not reminiscent of a scene from Hostel, and a 2008 sequel should hopefully recapture some of the edge-of-your-seat nail-biting on parade here. A proper horror film from a genre that's been saturated by comparative rubbish over the last decade, Cold Prey shows us that excellence can be found in simple storytelling.