Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 09/25/2007
SubTitles: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Wellspring Media
Swedish director
Anders Banke's
Frostbite (AKA
Frostbiten, 2006) - a gothic, bloody
horror tale heavily laden with doses of black humor - opens in 1944 Ukraine, when a group of soldiers enlisted in the Scandinavian Volunteer Group of the German army become accidentally estranged from their unit and lost in the wilderness. Seeking asylum in a seemingly vacant house, the men discover that the structure is anything but abandoned when a vampiric creature surfaces and rips one of the men to shreds. The other soldiers band together, kill the demon, and bury it. Flash forward to the present day, in Swedish Lapland, when single mother
Annika (
Petra Nielsen) and her daughter,
Saga (
Grete Havnesköld) settle into their new home.
Annika - a scientist - is appointed to work under the aegis of the well-respected, octogenarian geneticist
Gerhard Beckert (
Carl Ake-Eriksson) in the local hospital.
Beckert, it seems, was one of the soldiers in the cabin. Unbeknownst to
Annika, he has been attempting to create a super-race of vampires for the past sixty years, thus enabling mankind to live forever - a task for which he hopes to win the Nobel Prize. As
Beckert supervises and medicates a comatose patient,
Saga befriends one of her peers, the street-smart troublemaker
Vega (
Emma Åberg), and accompanies her to a party. Several of
Beckert's interns then mischievously swipe the pills that he is administering, and one consumes the medication - which imparts him with a ravenous desire to eat his girlfriend's pet rabbit and to feast on pedestrians. The remainder of the interns then visit the party that
Saga and
Vega have attended and spike the punchbowl with the medication, which turns the occasion into a menacing, blood-soaked vampiric nightmare.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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