| FROSTBITEN Frostbite |
 2006 – SwedenDirector: Anders Banke
- Reviewed by guest reviewer Matt
This is a fun film; I walked into the theatre, however, expecting horror. With fast pans of the camera and tension-building music leading up to the typical fanged boogie men we are all used to seeing jump out from coffins or dropping in from above, the first 15 minutes of the movie delivered on my expectations as well. But then something wonderful happened: The film setting jumped from the WWII intro to present day and got irreverent. I mean downright goofy at times. The teens at the high school were real, not 28-year-olds speaking like they just read an issue of Sixteen—they were real honest-to-god awkward attention-seeking teens. Throw in a rogue geneticist, some mysterious crimson pills, and a house party wrought with vampirism and you’ve got the making for a belly-laugh filled evening. The director Anders Banke did something marvelous here by making a film that throws our perceptions of what a vampire movie is out the window. Be you a Buffy fanatic or an Anne Rice junkie, you’ll find something in Frostbiten to enjoy. If what the host at our showing said is correct, Frostbiten has received distribution so keep an eye out for it, and enjoy a fun remix on the classic bloodsucker flick. |
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Rolling into a small town in northern Sweden a mother and teenage daughter are looking forward to a new start in a new town. Of course since they arrive at the start of a month-long stint of night they won’t really see the sights that their new home has to offer for a while. That may be a good thing though when your town is also home to vampires.
