![]() ![]() I feel like it’s important to note that Mountain Man has been impaled through the chest with an ice axe and thrown at least sixty feet down into a crack in a glacier where he has remained in arctic temperatures for at least six hours. The doctors manage to resuscitate the mountain man. In the process of removing the many layers of the mountain man’s clothing, he begins breathing again and goes into convulsions. She is taken to the hospital where she tells her story to the police and the bodies of her friends and the homicidal mountain man are removed from the crack in the glacier where she left them and taken to the morgue. Upon investigating the scene he finds our heroine Jannicke wandering half-frozen down the road. Camilla’s (one of the doctors) policeman boyfriend Ole goes off to investigate the abandoned car left by the group of people from the first movie. “Where do you want me to put Chekov’s box of murder implements?”Ĭold Prey 2 opens on a soon-to-be-closed hospital as the few doctors remaining on staff go about their daily routine. Everything I’ve read tells me that Cold Prey 2 is better than Cold Prey so is it? Still, it’s very watchable and I can’t say it’s a bad movie it just lacks ambition and charisma which is something fixed easily enough. The movie was beautifully shot, the characters were all three dimensional and real, and there was a great mystery surrounding the killer.īut three dimensional characters can’t discover their potential by just filling the same purpose as sad lazy slasher film archetypes, a unique setting isn’t so interesting when you spend the majority of the film wandering through the same under-lit hallways, and a mysterious killer doesn’t work when the mystery turns out to be so easily solved that someone watching would think the giant obvious clue as to the explanation is misdirection because it’s so blatant. The setting was something different, not a lot of horror movies take place in the snow which is a shame as its desolation makes for an eerie atmosphere and an interesting play on the “people get lost in the wilderness” model. I found it watchable but it made no mark on me. That is the nicest thing I can say about it, which doesn’t sound so bad but is actually the most damning form of praise in existence. I had heard pretty much nothing but positive things about Cold Prey and I’m always up for a good horror movie from another country so I sat down to watch it. I wanted to familiarize myself with the characters and setting so I would know what to expect going into Cold Prey 2 and be able to compare this movie to its predecessor as I know that anyone who is a fan of either movie is going to want to have done. I first watched Cold Prey three months ago in anticipation of this review. But when she wakes up in the hospital, the building is dark and deserted… and she soon realizes that her nightmare is not yet over. Having survived the hideous ordeal in the Jotunheimen mountains in which four of her friends were murdered, the badly injured Jannicke is brought to the local hospital, along with the body of the vicious mountain man whom she’d killed. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Robert Follin, Marthe Snorresdotter Rovik, Kim Wifladt, Fridtjov Såheim The non-union Norwegian equivalent of Halloween 2. ![]()
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