![]() ![]() It doesn’t descend into rock music video territory until the closing credits–that was kind of disappointing, as if the movie farted at me–and it’s thankfully short of shaky-cam techniques. It’s definitely not the usual Count Chocula music. The music is atmospheric but also original-sounding. This characterization also elevates Cold Prey above the frozen thriller Frozen. And Morten is the funny guy, who has sweet chemistry with Jannicke, which makes things a bit awkward since she’s dating Eirik. She’s dating Mikal, the cool guy who has something of the Ashton Kutcher about him, circa That Seventies Show. Ingunn is the bubbly blonde, so you know what’s going to happen to her but you like her enough to not want it to happen. Plus, she knows that super glue can work in a pinch to close flesh wounds. She’s sensible but still manages to be fun. The characters do follow some slasher tropes but still manage to be likeable. The movie was full of beautiful shots of the isolated landscape, to emphasize how far from help the five friends are. The attention to photography was really good. There are some things that set this movie apart from other slashers. It’s a fairly standard slasher movie that follows certain slasher protocols but it still manages to be fresh and scary. They take shelter in an abandoned hotel that may or may not be as abandoned as it seems. It’s a compound fracture worthy of Frozen. It’s all fun and games and briefly like a Mountain Dew commercial until Morten–who I’ve mentally renamed as Ron Weasley because he’s a funny ginge–breaks his leg. ![]() Jannicke and Eirik, Ingunn and Mikal, and Morten are friends out for a day of remote snowboarding fun. ![]() It’s nice to think about that in the 90+ degree weather in the one room in my apartment with air conditioning. Not only was the movie actually good, it was set on a frigid, icy, isolated mountain. This month’s assignment was the Norwegian slasher-pic Cold Prey. It wasn’t all lounging in heart-shaped hot-tubs and taking pictures in giant champagne glasses, though, I brought my Final Girl Film Club homework with me. All in all "Cold Prey 3" isn't a particularly bad film, as a stand alone it would have been pretty good, it just lacks the brilliance the first two, so I hope it's now come to an end.And, I’m baaaack! Back from my Poconos vacation. With the little development we're given for each person, it leaves us with little reason to care whether they'll somehow survive through the ordeal. Speaking of characters, none of them are likable, in my opinion. Another complaint is that this one is set in summer time which kinda defeats the object of being called "Cold Prey" There's even a clichéd scene where some of the characters decide to go skinny dipping in a lake, which seems to be some sort of requirement in backwoods slashers for some odd reason. I was hoping the third would somehow capture both positive aspects of each film, but sadly, Cold Prey 3 turned out to be your pretty standard backwoods slasher that we've seen several times before. Okay the beginning opened up quite well, when we finally get to see what happened to his parents and the way they treated him, but that was over in 10 minutes and then it cuts to a group of teens camping in the nearby woods. I am a big fan of the first two and wrote glowing reviews for them rating them 10 and 9, but this one I only rate 5, because quite frankly I was really disappointed. When I first heard that they were making a third "Cold Prey" movie, which pre dates the first two showing a back story on the killer, I was actually quite pleased, as we only saw glimpses in the first two. ![]()
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