![]() It's a decent flick though, and my enjoyment might also have been lowered at first by the fact that I was watching a dubbed version rather than my foreign film preference of subtitles. This also shows in none of the kills being particularly impressive. Still, when the killer just stands in front of two characters and lets them have a conversation about which one will escape, he's being pretty lackadaisical about his slashing duties. So obviously the movie works for rewatching. But while letting the movie play through a second time during the writing of this article, the pacing is working better for me. It seemed like he was letting people hang out in his place and wander around too much without letting his presence be known to the audience, making for a lack of stalkery tension and long stretches of nothing much going on. On first viewing, the killer felt kind of lazy to me. As so often happens, this squatter turns out to be a psycho killer, in this case a guy who likes to whack his victims with a pick axe and dump their bodies into an icy crevice. The characters set up house in the hotel, hang out, deal with personal issues, and look around, eventually coming across evidence that someone may be living in there. A lodge that was glimpsed in the prologue and has been closed since 1975. and the closest place is an abandoned lodge. So far from civilization, and of course unable to get cell phone signals, the characters' choices are limited. The quintet arrives at their mountainous destination and get to snowboarding, but their fun is soon cut short when dateless guy wipes out and breaks a leg. It just stood out to me, seeing a guy in a Norwegian slasher taking a swig from a Burger King cup. There's also a bit of unexpected product placement in the car scene. She soon turns out to be very capable at setting compound fractures and fixing flesh wounds (with super glue). It's a standard slasher assemblage of characters, in fact the character types at first seem to be lifted right out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake - there's the couple who are into excessive PDA, the dateless guy who cracks jokes about the others, the driver and his girlfriend, who's instantly the obvious final girl because she gets to ride in the front seat and has a deeper subplot of relationship issues. When we make the jump to present day, we join a group of friends who are on a road trip to the mountains to go snowboarding. The film begins with a short prologue focusing on a young boy who went missing at a mountain lodge, his snowy demise followed by news reports of the many people who go missing in the Norwegian mountains.
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