Cold Prey (2006) poster
2006 · horror · thriller

Cold Prey

Directed by Roar Uthaug1h 37m2006
ElsewhereIMDb6.220kTMDB6.2468
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When one of them breaks a leg, five friends snowboarding in the Norwegian mountains take shelter in an abandoned ski lodge and soon realize they’re not alone.

Our read · Cold Prey (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want lean Norwegian slasher terror in snowbound isolation tonight.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 18attention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if slasher gore, pickaxes, or jump scares will ruin your night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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