Fantastic film !

Seriously? I had the opposite thing happen. Based on how good the reviews were on the box, and how they seemed to be from at least semi legit horror movie sources, I expected this to be a fantastic slasher.

Instead we get a movie that only has 4 people, so there goes the mass-slashing/tongue in cheek route. Now we have the build tension/mental scares to work with, seeing as how a huge slash and gash is out of the question. But there was NO suspense built, the characters are boring and cliche, the acting is a joke, the death scenes are lame, there's no blood, no back story for the killer, and everything in this movie has been done before, and a hundred times better. I know 99% of things have been done already, so if you're gonna do what's been done, you have to do it extremely well, and on that level this movie is a huge failure...

Not bashing your tastes, everyone like different things, just saying heads to some people expecting this movie to be great...it's pretty lame...

"Look, it's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care..." - Peter Gibbons

I'm gonna agree with the OP on this one. I personally thought the movie was about as close to being the "ideal" slasher as any movie has in a long, long time. Well, not too long; I'd say All the Boys Love Mandy Lane was pretty close, too. At any rate...

I thought all of the things the second poster mentioned worked to the film's advantage, personally. I don't know what you were expecting (that wasn't a jab at you, I really mean that), but I personally got just what I wanted out of it; a good time. I wasn't expecting a huge slice-n-dice parade, but rather a more understated amount of gore and characters that were at the very least tolerable, along with a cool killer.

I will agree that most of it has been done before (well, all of it). I think that throwing around a bunch of cliches in a film can either blow up in a film's face and make it terribly boring, or it can work to a film's advantage. I think Cold Prey fits into the latter category. I think the film pulled off the standard cliches brilliantly, which made the film that much more enjoyable. Let's face, it the cliches are cliches for a reason -- they work, if they're done right. In Cold Prey, they worked.

Of course, it's all a matter of opinion, but I thought this film was great.

Everyone is dying to be with her. Someone is killing for it.

i agree, watched it last night, impressed with it overall, few little things that could have improved it a bit IMHO;

the intended 'audience jump out of your seat scenes' were, for me, slightly off target, i normally jump just like the next guy with a well deliveerd jump scene, but each and every one that there was, and there were a few intended, missed the spot, whereas other films i have seen, which i have liked far less, and have been less engrosses in, managed to use that to fuller effect.

i did like the fact that it went against some of my expectations in terms of scenes and survival, i thought that the amarous couple who were always sneaking off to the rooms downstairs, wouldnt make it back to the main area, after one scene, and then no sooner do we see them both back pouring drinks, 'safe' with the others.

great movie, and jannicke, the female lead was terrific, great character depth for me, especially considering this was a slasher.

8/10

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