ABOUT THE MOVIE |
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Starring: Petra Nielsen, Grete Havnesköld,
Emma Åberg, Jonas Karlström, Måns Nathanaelson
Rating: NC-16
Year Made: 2004
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SPECIAL
FEATURES |
- Trailer
- Behind the scenes
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TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS |
Languages: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Letterbox
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0/5.1
Running Time: 1 hr 38 mins
Region Code: 3
Distributor: Comstar Entertainment
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SYNOPSIS:
Annika and Saga, a medical doctor and her 17 year old daughter
have just moved to Lapland as Annika is going to work in the
hospital there. The little town with its seemingly endless
polar nights appears to be just as boring as Saga thought
it would be. At her new school however, Saga quickly gets
new friends thru Vega who acts as if she has known Saga for
years. But soon Annika finds out that there’s something
not right at the hospital: the little community is struck
by mysterious deaths and accidents. There is something hunting
in the night...and when the world around you disappears into
a maelstrom of snow, ice and blood, the last thing you want
to hear is that there’s more than a month till dawn…Annika
and Saga, a medical doctor and her 17 year old daughter have
just moved to Lapland as Annika is going to work in the hospital
there. The little town with its seemingly endless polar nights
appears to be just as boring as Saga thought it would be.
At her new school however, Saga quickly gets new friends thru
Vega who acts as if she has known Saga for years. But soon
Annika finds out that there’s something not right at
the hospital: the little community is struck by mysterious
deaths and accidents. There is something hunting in the night...and
when the world around you disappears into a maelstrom of snow,
ice and blood, the last thing you want to hear is that there’s
more than a month till dawn…
MOVIE
REVIEW
A
modern vampire movie set against the seemingly endless night
of Lapland in the polar winter, I was expecting something
gothic, shadowy and bleak. Alas, Frostbite came as a fusion
of comedic preference and horror. Its strong sense of the
absurd might put some people off if they’re not expecting
it – although in some ways it’s quite like Shaun
of the Dead in placing the very ordinary against the very
extraordinary. But while Shaun of the Dead is very much a
comedy with zombies, the gothic style, exquisite score and
the frequently explicit gore scenes make this much more a
vampire movie with comic overcoat.
The
special effects and make-up in Frostbite were extremely convincing
and the
camera doesn’t shy away from close ups of the main vampires
or much of the gore.
In
general aspect, pacing of Frostbite is a bit of a let down.In
the first half of the film there’s too little action,
in between too many scenes of social interaction, to get the
true sense of impending doom that Frostbite needs to make
it really work as a scary film.
To
say it’s a break from the norm is not to say it’s
better than the norm, and I hesitate to wholeheartedly brand
it as a great horror film. I think a lot of people might find
it disappointing, but I can’t help but feel there’s
something likeable about Frostbite’s strange mix of
the shocking, the beautiful and the boring.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
Withstanding the the never ending setting of darkness,i glad
to say, there was a
definate clean transfer and non of the detials were lost.
Standing with a Swedish
Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1, every crunch of snow and gnawing
of flesh can be heared.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The
usual suspect of trailer and behind the scene look will somehow
lap our
appetite, but not without us wishing there were more.
MOVIE
RATING:
OVERALL
DVD RATING :
Review
by Lokman B S
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This
review is made possible with the kind support from Comstar
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