Review of Frostbitten

Frostbitten (2006)
2/10
Good acting!? REALLY!!?
3 October 2007
OK... seeing to comment made by slake09 it's obviously difficult for nonswedish people to judge the acting. Because seriously the acting in this movie is awful, and I actually know why. The makes of this movie are two real horror fanatics. They love horror and gore. So that's what they wanted to do. Sure there is no other Swedish movie in this genre, but this is not a good first. The script is horrible, it has no apparent structure and the main concept get's lost along the way entangled in all the effects, bad acting and quite bad comedy. The main concept is awesome, vampires in a place where it's dark for a whole month. But that timelock is mentioned just once or twice and then lost. You never get the feeling of suspense that premise could bring. This is a disappointment because I really had hopes for this film. As a filmmakerin Sweden myself I hoped that this would be an opening for the Swedish movie business to dare do something different. But sadly it just shows that we still don't have the knowledge to make genre flicks well. We still try to do it the American way instead of trying to find our own way. We don't have the budgets they do, so we have to bring something else into the equation, and "Frostbiten" does not. Quite the opposite, it sets us back, because now it's gonna be a long while before anyone dares to try it again.
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