If you like slasher movies at all, you can skip the review and just go see this. It's a good one. In fact, I's go so far as to say it's the film that Manhunt wanted to be.
If you need more info than that, well I guess I can oblige.
Five friends head out for a day of skiing in a remote part of Norway, far from the crowds of holiday makers. Unfortunately, one of them suffers a fairly serious leg injury, and they are too far from their car to carry him back there before dark. It thus seems a stroke of good fortune when one of them spots an apparently abandoned alpine hotel in the next valley. They will be able to shelter overnight, and seek help in the morning.
Of course, the hotel isn't quite as abandoned as they believe, and as they will discover, the current inhabitant is very, very unfriendly ...
So first things first, yes this film is in Norwegian, so you will need to deal with subtitles. Well, that or wait for the English-language remake. But that's coming from WWE Studios, so I am less than confident about how well it will turn out.
The script is solid, not waiting too long to get things going, and keeping the pace solidly balanced after the killer begins his attack. The characters are sketched out quickly and deftly, and are for the most part generally fairly decent people, which makes the kills that happen - and of course not everyone is going to get out alive - have more impact.
Definitely recommended for fans of the form.
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