FROSTBITE (Frostbiten) (DVD Review) - 18/11/07

With the current influx of vampire movies abounding over the last couple of years or so this Swedish Vampire flick had been on my radar to watch for a while. Forget the low budget and the fact it was made in Sweden and not Hollywood and you get a genuinely jumpy thriller with some terrific Special Effects/CGI sequences with vampires that actually look horrific. Unfortunately the script wobbles all over the place and near the end falls apart - Also the large streak of comedy was not to my liking. If they had cut the comedy and tightened the story better I think this could have been a great vampire movie instead of an interesting one. As it is all the cast & crew have made a real effort on this and it is certainly worth a watch and also catching the "Making Of" covering the Special Effects and Background shooting to see the time & effort they put into bringing this all together.

Starting off with a Nazi SS Troop fleeing enemy forces in 1944 across snow-blasted wastelands they end up breaking into a deserted log cabin deep in the forests but something catches up with them. Jumping forward to the present day a mother and her daughter have moved to an isolated town for a new start; with the mother having a research job at the local Genetics Institute. Meanwhile the daughter makes friends with some of the local youths and then things start to fall apart as animals and people start to disappear. . . . . .