Archive of films Cold Prey / Fritt vilt

Norway
2006, 97 min

Section: Midnight Screenings
Year: 2007

Five young people on a trip get stranded in an abandoned mountain hotel said to be cursed, with several people having disappeared. After the initial idyll wears off, the new visitors fall one after another into the clutches of a killer with a pickaxe, and the experienced teenage murder-flick buff can guess who will be the last to die.

Synopsis

Five carefree youths set out on a snowboarding trip away from the overcrowded slopes and ski lift queues. Their idea is to conquer a peak in the middle of untouched nature on their own – but instead they find themselves fighting the most frightening serial killer in Norwegian history. When one of the young holidaymakers breaks his leg on the descent they find temporary shelter in an abandoned mountain hotel. They don’t yet know that it is a place people started disappearing from 30 years ago. And they have no idea that the building’s cellar hides a man whose best, or rather only, friend is an axe as sharp as a razor… The cat-and-mouse game the murdering madman plays shows not only who among the frightened visitors has the will to survive, but their true character as well. Cold Prey contains everything that a modern teenage murder-flick should and offers horror fans a skillfully crafted genre spectacle.

About the director

Roar Uthaug (b. 1973, Lørenskog, Norway) made his first killer-with-an-axe film in eighth grade. The fact that his talent for genre films does not lie only in slasher films, however, is attested to by his short western parody A Fistful of Kebab (1998). As a teenager, he tried making music videos for his own compositions. He studied video production in Mediefabrikken in the district of Akershus and in 1999-2002 took a course in direction at the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer. His graduate film was The Martin Administration (Regjeringen Martin, 2002), which was nominated for a Student Oscar. Since the summer of 2002 he has been making a living as a music video and commercial director. Cold Prey is his feature film debut.

Contacts

Norwegian Film Institute
Box 482 Sentrum, 0105, Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 224 745 00
Fax: +47 224 745 97
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.nfi.no

Svensk Filmindustri, AB
Greta Garbos Väg 13, SE - 16986, Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 868 035 00
Fax: +46 871 044 22
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.sfinternational.se

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Midnight Screenings

Director:	Roar Uthaug
Screenplay:	Thomas Moldestad
Dir. of Photography:	Daniel Voldheim
Music:	Magnus Beite
Editor:	Jon Endre Mørk
Producer:	Martin Sundland, Magne Lyngner
Production:	Fantefilm
Cast:	Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Viktoria Winge, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Endre Martin Blindheim Midtstigen, Tomas Alf Larsen
Contact:	Norwegian Film Institute , Svensk Filmindustri, AB

www:	www.nfi.no/film/coldprey

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Stine Oppegaard

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