Fritt vilt
Tags: dark, murder, violence, cult, flashback, romantic

Plot synopsis:
The film opens in the 1970s. A young boy with a birthmark across his eye is running frantically through the snow. As he tries to escape what's chasing him, he falls into a ditch. His pursuer isn't seen as the boy is bombarded with snow, helpless to escape being buried alive.During the opening credits, the police question the boy's concerned parents as to where he had gone and if he may have run away. They tell him he wouldn't have run away and has never gone missing before.In present day, couple Janncike and Eirik have invited their friends Mikal, Ingunn, and Morten Tobias to go snowboarding with them. While listening to the radio announcer warn skiiers and snowboarders to be prepared for crowds, Janncike tells them that they won't be dealing with that because Eirik always finds the best remote spots. Mikal and Ingunn make out in the backseat much to the discomfort of Morten who is obviously the fifth wheel. When he asks Jannicke and Eirik if they plan on moving in together Eirik replies "yes" while Jannicke replies "no". The mood becomes awkward.The friends arrive at the mountain and begin climbing up. Jannike asks Ingunn if she's in love with Mikael and she embarrassingly confesses that she does.Everyone reaches the peak and begins to snowboard down. They all seem to be enjoying themselves until Morten takes a bad fall and breaks his leg. Jannicke is able to set it but realizes they can't walk him back to the car as it's getting dark. No one has cell service and they begin to search around for shelter. Jannicke comes across a ski lodge and the group agrees to carry Morten there.They quickly realize it's abandoned and break in. They put Morten on a couch in the lounge as they search for something to mend his leg. Jannicke finds a box under the front desk that holds a tube of super glue and a single shotgun shell. She tosses the shell aside and uses the super glue to fix Morten's wound. After things settle down, Eirik, Ingunn and Mikal begin to search for the generator and Jannicke stays behind with Morten and reads the guest book.Eirik finds the generator in the basement and gets it working. Meanwhile, Mikal and Ingunn find a guest room that has been burnt to cinders and a spot on the wall where an axe is missing.Back in the lounge, Jannicke reads entries from the guest book that suggest that the lodge shut down in the 70s and owners of the lodge had lost their son. Jannicke finds and passes around a picture of the parents with their son, obviously the boy with the birthmark from the beginning of the film.The group makes the best of their situation by playing records and drinking what's left of the booze. Eirik apologizes to Jannicke for assuming she wanted to move in together and says they'd probably get sick of each other anyway. They cuddle up to go to sleep as Morten watches, forlornly. Mikal and Ingunn head into a empty guest room and get into bed. As Mikal begins to get aggressive about having sex, Ingunn pushes him off. He calls her a tease and storms out.Morten wakes up and has Jannicke and Eirik take him outside to pee. Mikal storms into the lounge to get a drink and turns the music back on. Meanwhile, Ingunn hears a strange noise and peeks into the hall. When she sees nothing she decides to grab her clothes and go find Mikal. On her way out of the room, she drops her locket. As she bends to pick it up a figure appears behind her and trips her with a pick axe. Ingunn screams and is stabbed in the arm but manages to roll out of the way as the figure tries to impale her again. She runs down the hall screaming, but is drowned out by the music. She makes it to the stairs leading up to the lounge as the figure catches up to her. She calls out as she sees Mikal but is finally stabbed to death and dragged away by the pick axe as the music fades.Jannicke returns to the lounge to find Mikal sadly sitting at the bar. She asks him to tell her what's wrong and he complains that Ingunn is cold. She tells him that Ingunn is a virgin and she's just nervous. Mikal feels ashamed for how he acted.The next morning, Mikal heads back to the guest room with a breakfast tray to apologize to Ingunn. When he gets there the door is shut and she doesn't respond, so he walks back to the lounge. Meanwhile, Eirik prepares to head back to the car to go get help. Jannicke puts her house keys into his pocket, indicating she wants him to move in. She kisses him goodbye and he walks out of the cabin. As he rounds the corner, he sees blood on the ground. He ventures forward and finds Ingunn's body lying in the snow. He rushes over to her as the blunt end of a pick axe strikes him in the head.Jannicke and Mikal decide to explore the lodge and return to the basement. They find a door by the generator and open it, revealing a hidden back room. Inside are shelves filled with modern gadgets and clothing as well as empty cans of food. Jannicke freaks out because the lodge closed in the 70s and most of the things in the room were invented well after that. They rush back to the lounge where she tells Mikal she'll go talk to Ingunn. Mikal sees that Morten is missing and goes upstairs to the kitchen to look for him.Jannicke tries to coax Ingunn out of the room. When she doesn't answer, Jannicke opens the door to find the room covered in blood. She rushes out and heads back to the lounge.Mikal reaches the kitchen door to find a dark, red substance running out from underneath it. He enters to find Morten lying on the floor, having tripped while trying to open a can of beets, hence the red substance. They laugh as Jannicke bursts into the room. She takes them to the guest room. Mikal finds Ingunn's locket in a puddle of blood. When Morten exclaims that they are the only people there, Jannicke and Mikal look at each other, realizing that there must be someone living in the basement. As they turn to run out the front door is heard opening and a cold rush of air flows through the hall. Jannicke pushes them back into the guest room and barricades the door. They hold their breath as someone crashes against it. The barricade holds and the person on the other side leaves.Mikal panics and tells Jannicke they should climb out the window and run. Jannicke points out that Morten can't run on his leg. Mikel tells her they should leave him behind and Morten begins to cry. Jannicke refuses to leave and Mikal climbs out by himself. Jannicke runs to the window and watches as he hides in a tool shed. The figure suddenly reappears outside. He's a looming Mountain Man with a large beard wearing goggles and covered in animal hides. He makes his way to the shed where Mikal is hiding. Inside the shed, Mikal tries to hide behind a pile of skiis. When he makes a run for it he steps into a bear trap and crawls out of the shed. Jannicke watches from the window as the Mountain Man breaks Mikals neck.Jannicke grabs Morten and stashes him in the pantry. He panics so she gives him a can and tells him to memorize the label. She's going to the shed to finds a sled to get them out. She begins to leave when Morten begins to confess his love for her and she interrupts him to tell him that she knows.Jannicke makes it to the front door when she sees the Mountain Man coming. She hits the floor just as the door opens and she watches as Mikal's body is dragged into the lounge. She sneaks out to the shed where she finds skis and a sled, but it's too big to be moved. In her frustration she collapses on top of it only to gaze up at a shotgun on a shelf. She grabs it and heads back to the lounge to find the shell she had tossed aside earlier. Once she retrieves it, she heads back to the pantry where she tells Morten she has a plan.She and Morten head to the basement where they turn the generator off to alert the Mountain Man of their whereabouts. She gives Morten a flashlight and tells him to flick it on and off when the Mountain Man is coming. Then she'll shoot him. Morten finds a box cutter in a pile of junk and puts it in his pocket. As Jannicke goes to hide she sees her house keys lying on the floor. Venturing further into the back room she finds Eirik tied up and alive.Morten sees the Mountain Man coming and flicks the flashlight on and off. Jannicke can't move Eirik in time so she tells him to be quiet and runs back to her hiding place. The Mountain Man walks into the back room holding a flashlight and Jannicke bursts out and points the gun at him. Just as she's about to shoot he turns his light off, engulfing them in darkness. Morten turns his flashlight on and Jannicke slams the back room's door shut and barricades it with a piece of wood. The Mountain Man bashes against the door but it holds. Morten tries to get Jannicke to run but she tells him they can't go because Eirik is in the back room too. Morten asks what they should do and she tells him to open the door so she can shoot the Mountain Man. Morten lifts the piece of wood and the door bursts open. Jannicke fires but Morten realizes the Mountain Man is using Eirik as a human shield and knocks her gun out of her hands, sending the bullet astray. The Mountain Man impales Eirik with his pick axe as Jannicke screams. Morten tells her to run and picks up the gun. Jannicke runs out as Morten tosses the useless gun and tries to defend himself with a saw. He cuts the Mountain Man's leg but it's no help and he's impale by the pick axe.Jannicke runs to the shed and straps on a pair of skis. She runs blindly through the darkness with her flashlight. It briefly falls on the figure of the Mountain Man just before he knocks her out.Jannicke awakes to find herself lying on the sled and buried under the bodies of her friends. She sees the box cutter in Morten's pocket and pulls it out. As the Mountain Man reaches his destination, a deep ravine, he begins tossing the bodies over the edge. When he grabs Jannicke's foot she stabs him in the neck with the box cutter. She then grabs the pick axe and begins swinging it at him but misses. He grabs it by the other end and they struggle. He eventually pushes her to the edge of the ravine and raises his axe to stab her. As the same moment she rips the goggles from his face revealing a birthmark across his eye. Startled, the Mountain Man misses and the axe hits the ice. Jannicke pulls herself up and retrieves the axe. She swings it at him over and over, pushing him further towards the edge of the ravine. When he's finally reached the edge she gives a final swing stabs him in the stomach with the pick axe. As he falls over the edge, the Mountain Man flashes back to himself as the boy at the beginning of the film. As he looks up at his pursuers we see the image of his parents, intentionally burying him alive in the snow as he screams at them to stop.The Mountain Man hits the bottom of the ravine with a crash, surrounded by the bodies of Eirik, Mikal, Ingunn and Morten. Jannicke collapses by the edge of the ravine, exhausted.End.

Review: While snowboarding in the ice mountains with Jannicke (Ingrid Bolse Berdal), her boyfriend Eirik (Tomas Alf Larsen), Mikail (Enfre Martin Midtistigen) and his girlfriend Ingunn (Viktoria Winge), Morten Tobias (Rolf Kristian Larsen) has an accident and breaks his leg.
However on the next morning they find that they are trapped in the hotel with a psychopath killer, and they have to protect themselves trying to survive."Fritt Vilt" is an engaging thriller that has a predictable story but entertains.
I have visited the theater for basically every new Norwegian film, with high hopes and a wanting to like what they show, and every time I walk out disappointed and with less hope for our present generation of filmmakers.
I went to the premiere of Fritt Vilt expecting a nice slasher film, and I walked out 95 minutes later, with hope restored and a nice smile on my face.
The look and feel of the hotel and the isolation is all there, and the evil that is lurking sure is creepy.Roar Uthaug does a few neat tricks early in the movie, which makes you sit at the edge of your seat through out the film, and his direction is good.
After reading the other user comments about how good this movie was I have to give it to you people straight, the movie is okay but we serious horror fans have seen it all before.The story starts with a couple of guys and girls heading for Jotunheimen(a big ass mountain)to snowboard.
And of course as in any other horror movie we ever seen there is always a bright guy saying: "Hey wanna check out the rest of the hotel?" Whats very fascinating though is that one of the couple end up in room 237,guess these guys haven't seen "The Shining" yet?
or something like that AND (pause) the killing spree begins.."Fritt Vilt" has borrowed a lot from movies like "The Shining","I know what you did last summer" and a kind of "Hills Have Eyes" beginning, mostly cheap scares but some good ones to.
Like I said, the movie is good but we have already seen a lot of this stuff before, as a Norwegian movie its a step in the right direction but if you wanna see a horror flick beyond this see: Villmark.
with "Fritt Vilt" ("Cold Prey"), another winner.This film really revives the slasher genre.
Okay normally i'm not really into subtitled movies, but when I came across this little gem the other day and after all the rave reviews that I read about this on web, well I just had to see what all the fuss was about, and I was pleased with the result.The Plot = Five people decide to take a snowboarding trip in the Norweign mountains, but one of them falls and breaks his leg, then they find refuge in an old abandoned ski lodge cabin, this where the terror begins.Okay It's a generic plot but that doesn't matter and in no way makes this a bad movie whatsoever, It's however one of the many strenghs of this movie that brings a certain realism to it's surroundings and characters.
Okay It's a slow burner at first it takes about 40 minutes for the first murder to happen, but when it does it really kicks in and in the meantime we get to know the main cast and it always keeps you interested all the way through.The eerieness and tension are all there in this, the ski lodge was a geniue creepy place and when they start exploring the place and finding information and the killer works really well since he's just a regular guy geared up to handle the cold weather, so his face is naturally covered by material to keep himself warm.
The movie just shows that even if you have a predictable and clichéd story you can deliver a decent watch.The cast were all top notch = Ingrid Bolso Berdal who plays the main heroine Jannike hit all the right notes, she was fantastic and really stood out, her emotions and logical thinking made her a very likable character too root for.
Tomas Alf Larsen (Erik) was also another interesting addition to cast as was Viktoria Winge (Ingunn) the pretty blonde more than the usual bimbo they usually have in these movies, she actually layers to her character and Endre Martin Midtstigan (Mikal) who also played the asshole role pretty well.All in all a decent slasher that hails all the way from Norway, that actually brings realism and an interesting set up and beautiful scenery a definite must see the best slasher in years..
Well for starters, in a world overdosed on allegedly scary slasher movies this Norwegian film actually delivers with a terrifying atmosphere and genuine suspense.
This is an outstanding movie within the slasher genre and a sterling example of Norwegian horror..
Après Ski. Above average slasher which means not a very good movie per se, but tolerable.The setting comes up trumps as well as the unusually likable character portraits and solid performances.
It's midwinter.Five youngsters are heading for the Jotunheimen mountain area to go snowboarding.On the slope,one of them has a bad fall and breaks a leg.There is no sign of any other people around and their mobile phones are out of range.They catch sight of a mountain hotel in the distance and decide to find shelter there.The hotel lies emtpy and silent,obviously closed down years ago.The phone lines are dead and the youngsters realize they have to spend the night in the hotel.Unbeknownst for them there is somebody else in the building-somebody thirsty for their blood...Pretty eerie Norwegian slasher with truly creepy looking killer.The director Roar Uthaug manages to create few moments of suspense and terror.There is very little gore and the motivation of the killer is fairly silly,but if you want to be scared give "Cold Prey" a look..
Set in the snowy landscape of Jotunheimen, Norway, a group of young adventure-seeking boys and girls ends up trapped in a mysteriously abandoned mountain hotel.
They try to enjoy their stay in spite of the circumstances, but after a while they realize that something horrible haunts this else-how so charming (?) old building.As with most horror movies, don't expect anything new, it's just the same old spooky murders in another setting.
Though it was not an English movie it had so many repeat screenplay that we (horror / thriller lovers) had experienced.For instance to tell it had the hotel set similar to 'the shinning' The killer was a Jason type I know what u did psychopath but fails to say what is exactly wrong with him to kill every one.Since the movie has three parts the first one was like an intro so don't expect so many spine chills all are ultimately guessable ones.
Where do i start about this film,its a story of a group of enthusiastic youngsters who are looking forward to a fun vacation but find something terrifying instead with their lives at stake.This is a summary which obviously looks interesting and especially for those who are inclined towards thrillers/horror films,i am one of them,this keeps me on a constant search for such summaries.Many of these so called thrillers turn out to be a low budget trash with bad stories and highly unprofessional approach,but after seeing COLD PREY i assure you that its nothing like the trash i have mentioned b,its a brilliant thriller movie with a perfect score on movie making scale with a simple yet terrifying story making it an appreciable 90 minutes experience...definitely worth watching!!!.
These people must be on serious..and I mean SERIOUS..hallucinogens.This was the most SCARY, SUSPENSEFUL, WELL-FILMED horror movie I've seen in about 10 years.
Norwegian movies are on the rise and Fritt Vilt is proving this big time.Five people are snowboarding in the beautiful mountains of Norway when one of the guys break his leg and they are forced to spend the night at an abandoned hotel far away from everything.
The acting wasn't really that good and the story is the same thing we have seen in every mediocre film before.
This is and will be a never forgotten movie, Im sure...So, the plot: Some teenagers goes snowboarding in the mountains, but when one of them break a leg they have to find safety at a abandon hotel.
The entire movie starts out boring and bad, and we are introduced to characters that are in fact too similar to the typical Norwegian movie setting.The fact that the language is Norwegian and the typical characters are the only things that is noticeable Norwegian in the movie, it could just as well have been a low-budget Hollywood film.There have been a great many good Norwegian films the last three years, among them are movies like "Reprise", "Den brysomme mannen", "Uno" and "Hawaii, Oslo".
I especially liked Jannicke (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), she is such a strong and smart character.The movie is very suspenseful despite the fact that it's kinda predictable.
Group of twenty somethings seek refuge in an abandoned hotel and get picked off one by one, it really couldn't be more clichéd.Cold Prey isn't bad at all, it's just yet another generic slasher flick and I'm surprised it has two sequels.
Fingers crossed that they figured out something in the follow ups to set them apart from the other million movies of its ilk.The Good: Great setting Solid cinematography The Bad: No originality at all Things I Learnt From This Movie: Superglue in Norwegian sounds like super lube, this could end in disaster!.
There's not a great deal of story for the film, which isn't a surprise and director Roar Uthaug seems keen to focus on the killings, which is obviously the reason why most people will watch this film.
For any reason(better technology or better international distribution of films),on last years,a lot of filmmakers around the world decided to do horror films in their countries(mostly,European countries).From the slasher sub-genus,we have seen French films(like Promenons-nous dans les Bois),German(like Der Tod feiert mit) or Swedish(like Strandvaskaren).Mostly of the horror films of that nationalities are crap.So,I did not have high expectations with the Norwegian film Fritt vilt.But,I took a surprise because the film resulted to be pretty good and a lot better than I expected.The film does not loose much time for showing us the story and the bloody scenes are more intense than graphic.There's a lot of blood in this film,but it puts more attention to the suspense and the tension than the blood.The performances are very well and they can transmit the tension of the characters.The fail I found on this movie is that the story is not new;it's the same than a lot of slasher horror films and the film has some clichés and predictable elements.But Fritt vilt is a very fun horror movie with a lot of blood and intensity..
At first, it may have seemed like you were going to get the typical format slasher movie, where a group of youngish people, (not exactly teens I didn't think) get stranded in an abandoned or derelict building, even better that in this movie, it's an abandoned ski motel on a snow covered mountain!
And no silly attempts at injecting annoying humour to irritate when it crops up in silly places, (ok, "Frostbite" had humour, but at least it was reasonably clever humour, but then I'm not reviewing that one, although I did enjoy it, but not as much as I enoyed this one) and what was unusual also, is that in "Cold Prey" one could really care about the characters and want them to escape, unlike in some movies where you don't care one way or the other what happens to them and might even sympathise with the killer.
Beside the kids act pretty stupid at times and the whole boring "5 kids to kill in 90 Minutes" theme is wrapped in a real lame plot that barely covers there is absolutely nothing new to this movie except its norwegian.
It's nice thought to see a setting like this, Norwegian snowboard enthusiasts driving down the mountains in loose snow, having and accident, and they have to take in for the night on a abandoned mountain hotel.
They find out that this hotel was closed for many years due to the disappearance of the managers son who is still missing.I liked this movie very much because of the plot and the story of it and because of the nice images of Jotunheimen.
Now I do like a good horror movie almost as much as the next seventeen year old, although I prefer when they are atmospheric other than in-your-face blood and gore.
They are not alone.Now, I have watched a lot of halfway norwegian movies in the last couple of years.
"Fritt Vilt", or "Cold Prey" as it was called in English, is a Norwegian horror movie from 2006, directed by Roar Uthaug.Five young friends are on a snowboarding trip in the Norwegian mountains.
They soon discover that someone has been living in the hotel since it was closed down in the seventies, killing anyone who trespasses."Fritt Vilt" is one of the best horror movies made in recent years.
Sweden has a lot to learn from Norway when it comes to making horror movies.The acting is quite good for a slasher.
Scariness would be 7.5/10 so still decent.Really if you enjoy a good slasher and haven't seen this do yourself a favor and watch it.
It takes a while but finally they confront the guy, and in the end we do learn something about the stranger.Cold Prey is a boring but well made slasher lacking violence, gore, nudity, interesting characters, and a story.
This has been my first taste of Norwegian Horror, and I must say I liked it!Frit Vilt is a classic Slasher with a fairly common background story - youngsters go on ski vacation (to a far and desolate place, obviously), one of them gets injured, they find an "abandoned" cabin and use it for shelter, enter Slasher, let there be blood.
So I finally decided to check them out and im glad I did but not as impressed as I was told I to would be.As "Cold Prey" starts you get the feeling you are watching the same thing you have seen in countless other slasher films, and that feeling is correct.
The fact that it takes place in the snow was interesting but its not like this is the first horror film to do that.The main things a slasher flick needs to be great is a good killer, like-able characters, and a nice pace.
"Fritt vilt" is a horror film filled with predictable situations, bad written characters and the classics clichés we've already seen out there.
I liked the snowy setting that makes this a OK winter slasher but the movie is completely unoriginal and downright dumb most of the time.
It looks like they had a decent budget for this movie, the gore effects were good but the kills were nothing new, and with the winter setting the movie is watchable but it is way too basic for me..
'Fritt vilt', or 'cold prey' does to you what a horror movie is supposed to do: it glues you on your seat from start to finish.This film doesn't start as a horror story, though.
it actually has everything you possibly want out of a horror film: group of adults going on vacation (ski), force to stay in a remote abandoned "evil" hotel, try to have some s**, discovery its not that easy!
Cold prey was not to bad I was interested to see how the norweigens done it ,and they done it well there was some genuine scares and at least a good effort was made into the movie having a good story line with a twist to the end.The jist of the movie goes like this A group snowboarders take a holiday to the Jotunheimen mountains ,low and behold one of the five friends has an accident ,and the nearest shelter is an old abandoned lodge ,with a storm closing in they take shelter...with very dire consequences .This movie received some decent praise and i thought it done its job well .If you like your horrors and slashers and don't mind subtitles check it out its above the recent Hollywood standard anyway.I think it might surprise a few.
Cold prey is a great film and I think it is one of the best slasher film ever.It is about a group of friends being stalked by a mysterious killer,in the cold,snowy mountains.The movie has a very good atmosphere.An old abandoned hotel,wind blowing and loneliness everywhere.The killer has a great weapon to kill and the way he murders is riveting.Cold prey is a descent slasher and if you are bored with the same Masked killer stuff watch this one.It is indeed a ride of fun and horror and a perfect end.
Cold Prey is a Horror/thriller movie that starts out with five friends heading for a nice day skiing and snowboarding.
When one of them becomes injured they have no choice but to seek shelter in an abandon hotel.While this movie was subtitled for me I found the acting good overall, with a strong performance from the lead female.
I would have liked to see a darker atmosphere once in the hotel but it gets along just fine as it is.The plot is is where this movie will break down for some people.
But if your looking for a movie that does everything great and keeps you wanting to see more then you will find Cold Prey a good addition to the genre..
I Especially recommend watching this movie to any one who enjoys the flavor of 80 slasher/horror films.
Norwegian horror film that begins with news reports of weird things going on and people going missing in the mountains.
Good looking and well constructed horror films doesn't really have any scares.