Jannicke is brought to a nearly empty, soon-to-be-closed hospital in Otta to recover, while the five corpses are placed in the basement morgue. It begins almost exactly where Uthaug’s ended, with sole survivor Jannicke (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) discovered wandering in a traumatised daze near the crevasse which had become the resting place for her four friends and their crazed mountain man assailant. The same is true of Mat Stenberg’s sequel, which, as a slasher, is merely serviceable, but comes with its own particularities of local colour to distinguish it from the competition (already dwindling by the Noughties). In truth, Roar Uthaug’s ‘original’ Cold Prey (Fitt Vilt, 2006), with its combination of co-eds, an isolated setting and an unstoppable killing machine, was not particularly original at all – but its location in the spectacular, snow-covered mountains of Norway’s Jotunheimen set it apart from the type of American slasher whose conventions it was otherwise wholeheartedly appropriating. Yet what it shows is that locals yearn for films that reflect their own life and environment, even as genre audiences long to see well-worn tropes defamiliarised through relocation. Even when one accounts for the film’s massive marketing campaign, this is extraordinary, not least for a slasher sequel. Watch Cold Prey 2: Resurrection online in the UK: Shudder UKĮvery other weekend, our resident horror obsessive Anton Bitel delves into Shudder’s selection of horrors to handpick a Friday night fright.įirst things first: in its native Norway, Cold Prey 2: Resurrection sold 101,564 tickets for its opening weekend – substantially more than than any other domestic film in the country’s history. Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Marthe Snorresdotter Rovik, Kim Wifladt, Fridtjov Såheim, Johanna Mørck, Mats Eldøen, Rune Melby
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