Frostbitten (2006)

A Swedish teen vampire comedy horror film isn't a huge genre, and it is always good to find something that tries something a little out of the ordinary.Sharing certain similarities with '30 Days of Night', the main thrust of this film reveals what happens when a group of teens mistake pills of what appears to be condensed vampire blood for narcotics. Instead of getting high, the teens develop vampiric tendencies.A film involving 'teens' usually scares me more than any monster, with relentless memories of the cat-walking petulant pouters often found being sliced by Freddie Krueger (or similar) over the years. But these Swedish juveniles are an appealing group, with little of the overbearing bravura of their Hollywood counterparts. The character of Sebastian, in particular, creates effective mayhem when visiting his girlfriend's parents after having taken a tablet, and is trying to make a good impression whilst fighting off the effects of his increasing vampirism (her father is a Priest, which doesn't help).In the end, the vampires appear to be running rings around the increasingly outnumbered police force, and remind them that here in Lappland, dawn is a whole month away, a reference to Sweden living in permanent darkness half the year round – perfect conditions for the undead.

A nurse moves with her teen daughter to wintry northern Swedish town, where strange goings-on - particularly at the hospital - soon point to the horror buff's favorite fanged bunch of blood suckers... Fresh, freakily fun take on the vampire genre that winningly and highly entertainingly admits that it's not going to take itself seriously. Surprisingly well-written (well, a few loopholes and an ending that does take a very easy way out) with a nice WW2 background story, good teenage lingo and many humorous nods to the genre that will safely elevate this up on a cult shelf. The cross-cutting between the date-dinner-at-parent's-house and the teen party scenes is great! And as Swedish movies come in this genre, it's reliably acted and really colorfully and convincingly made! As an interesting comparison with "Let the right one in", guess what? - I honestly enjoyed this one more...6 out of 10 from Ozjeppe.

This horror-comedy about vampires in a northern Swedish town has it's qualitys. It has a nice look and the music is also good. Unfortunately the script is pretty bad and the actors even worse. The movie starts off pretty good with a background-story set in Ukraine during world war 2. Scandinavian SS-soldiers are being attacked by vampires while taking shelter in a cottage. When the story after that moves to Sweden today it's just plain silly. Neither the humour or the horror works. But I must say i was pretty impressed with the look of the movie. Swedish movies usually looks like crap but this didn't. Maybe the makers of this movie can make something really good if they have a decent script next time.

To think I was once avoiding horror movies because I thought I was chicken. Hell, I now believe the real reason's cause there are so many bad horror movies out there, that it's just not worth the time and money to watch them on the big screen. This Swedish movie unfortunately, is one of them.Frostbiten started off promisingly, with a link back to the horrors of WWII, where soldiers were being cut down in size by the enemies. They stumble onto an unused hut, but before they can get a good night's rest, they realize that there is something mysterious about the entire place, and got attacked by strange creatures. It's quite an extended scene before the opening title, but we get fast forwarded to today.Mother and daughter Annika (Petra Nielsen) and Saga (Grete Havnesköld) come to a new town to start life anew, but before they get settled down, it's a mixed bag of incidents which see Annika uncovering a deep dark secret in the hospital she works in, and Saga's teenage friends getting high on an experimental drug without their knowledge, and get turned into vampires. So begins a battle on both fronts as they fend off vampire rejects from Underworld.The story is nothing to shout about, being very weakly made up of lame excuses just to feature the vampires in various fang-sinking-into-necks opportunities. Plenty of things went wrong, right up until its ending, which tried to be too intelligent for its own good with a suggestive open ended ending, and it doesn't make much sense. At times, the movie's littered with humour, but in cheesy ways as it wasn't able to decide whether to be funny, or dead serious with the antics. It's nothing scary, but there were copious amounts of blood used to up the gore factor.Come to think of it, certain production aspects turned out quite childish with its lack of attention to continuity issues, although there were some sparks of brilliance in its special effects department. Other than that, if you really want to experiment with a foreign language horror movie, just wait for the discs to arrive.