Review of Frostbitten

Frostbitten (2006)
5/10
Young girl moves to Nothern Sweden with her mother and finds herself invited to a party that turns into a feast of blood when a vampire epidemic strikes the small town.
6 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I honestly don't know how to review this Swedish vampire spoof. Is it supposed to be funny? Is it supposed to be taken seriously? Or was the initial intention on the film makers' part to make a scary vampire movie(in the true sense of the word), which the opening scene suggests, but somewhere along the way this idea was abandoned (well, in that case rather quickly and brutally)? So what is Frostbiten? Comedy? Horror? Amateur Evening Night in Kiruna? Or have I just been watching another horror turkey? Like many horror fans out there I was hoping for a real scare, the buzz around the FDIC might have fooled me. However, when dogs start to speak, you can throw those expectations out the window. Don't sweat, you say to yourself, just lean back and go along for the ride. This could go in any direction. And it does. Horribly. Experienced film actors struggle desperately with lines, that would have made Staffan Hildebrand blush, while the young actors are left completely on their own. The dialog scenes are awful, poorly directed like the director and the cinematographer walked away from the set and hoped the camera in some mysterious way would instruct the actors. There is a plenty of gore but who really cares when those damned dogs start to speak. What the hell were they thinking? But don't get me wrong! I had fun the whole time. In some of the scenes the comedy works for the film(when one of the leading actors is impaled by a garden gnome, you come to think that if the whole movie lived up to that ingenious gag, this would be a masterpiece in the horror-comedy-genre). Sorry to say this isn't a Swedish Lost Boys (which I hated by the way) or An American Werewolf in London (which I love). This is Amateur Night in Kiruna. Butit sure was an entertaining one.
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