Frostbitten (2006)

Vampires terrorize a city in Norrbotten.

Director:

Anders Banke

Writers:

Daniel Ojanlatva, Pidde Andersson (contributing writer)

Stars:

Petra Nielsen, Carl-Åke Eriksson, Grete Havnesköld

6 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Petra Nielsen	...	Annika Wallén
Carl-Åke Eriksson	...	Prof. Gerhard Beckert
Grete Havnesköld	...	Saga Wallén
Emma Åberg	...	Vega (as Emma T. Åberg)
Jonas Lawes	...	Robert
Niklas Grönberg	...	John
Gustav Johansson	...	Joel
Linnea Jonsson	...	Cissi
Nour El-Refai	...	Cornelia
Jonas Karlström	...	Sebastian
Måns Nathanaelson	...	Lukas
Mikael Göransson	...	Jacob
Anna Lindholm	...	Mona (as Anna Lindholm Rosendahl)
Malin Levanon	...	Ukrainian Vampire (as Malin Vulcano)
Sara Arnia	...	Kajsa Falk (as Sara Arnia-Bredefeldt)

Storyline

After Annika, a medical doctor, gets work at the local hospital, she and her 17-year old daughter Saga move to a small town in northern Sweden. Annika is keen to work with her idol, geneticist Professor Gerhard Beckert. However Beckert's sinister past in the Waffen-SS soon catches up with him when a couple of pill-popping interns mistake an experimental vaccine for party drugs. Mayhem ensues as the town's teenagers succumb one by one to the mysterious virus.

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Plot Keywords:

lapland sweden | eastern europe | professor | small town | teenager | 

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Taglines:

Cretures of the night, without curfew

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Genres:

Horror | Comedy

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Was a commercial failure in Sweden due to not being able to find Swedish distributors. The biggest distributor in Sweden did not want to give it a big release and did not give it much promotion thinking it was too low quality. Ironically it was by far the most popular Swedish movie in international markets that year.

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Goofs

In the final battle, Joel can be seen walking towards Jacob like a zombie in the background when Jacob asks if Saga is alright. The camera cuts to Saga for a brief moment. When it cuts back to Jacob Joel is not there.

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Quotes

John: Come in!
Saga: We haven't meet but...
John: I know. You're Vega's mystery date! Glad to see you. My name is John.

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the credits the following message appears: No animals were harmed or maltreated during the making of this film. In fact, the live animals appearing in this film were treated better than most of the actors (and crew).

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Connections

References Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

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Soundtracks

Double Decker
Written by Michael Sellers
Performed by The Langhorns
Courtesy of Bad Taste Records

User Reviews

Where did the 21 big salmons go

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bad focus from time to time. Lack of creativity.

EDITING: Pretty good considering the cinematography.

ACTING: Various

LIGHTING: Nice but i prefer fog and mist-lighting effects in horror movies.

MUSIC: Very well written and performed. Almost too good to work effectively together with some of the scenes. Gets too melodramatic at times, like the old silent films that scared the crap out the audience a long time ago.

DIRECTING: ?

VAMPIRES: Super nice! Realistic make up and CG.

SCARE: Bad timing in editing and bad choice of camera angles. If the movie tries to make the audience jump out of their seats with fear, we jump with laughter.

HUMOUR: Funny situations appear in the story. Maybe the next Swedish film project.

OPENING SCENE: Boring and not quite convincing.

SCRIPT: Correct thinking in structure but unfortunately, some of the characters feel superfluous. Vampire-Sebastian would be a lot more fun idea for a movie.

OTHER COMMENTS: They have overseen some of the best opportunities to capture beautiful and scary scenes involving white snow, fog and blood. Desipite the fact that the action is taking place in the middle of the cold winter, this wasn't used as a physical problem for the characters. I believe it was much colder for the slow working film crew than what was captured in the final result of the film. Where did all the money go?

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Sweden] Official soundtrack site

Country:

Sweden Russia

Language:

Swedish German Finnish English

Release Date:

24 February 2006 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Frostbitten

Filming Locations:

Långön, Norrbottens Län, Sweden

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$125,010

Company Credits

Production Co:

"Ulitka" Studio, Cinepost Studios, Cinestar Production AB

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1