Norwegian Slasher FRITT VILT (COLD PREY) Returns For Round Three!
It's hard to over state the importance of Roar Uthaug's Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) to the current wave of Nordic genre film. The first ever slasher movie to come out of the region Uthaug's picture was a huge success, proving to producers and financiers that their audiences were hungry for something other than just arthouse fare and so the door opened wide for a string of quality genre pictures from the region in the years that followed.
And among those pictures - of course - was a sequel to Uthaug's trailer blazer. Less successful critically but still a big hit at the box office, Fritt Vilt 2 carried on the franchise with a new director at the helm but continuing the story from exactly where the first left off. And now they're back for more. Or are they?
More would imply a continuation but it appears that they're content to leave their hulking killer dead in the present within this franchise, choosing not to stretch credibility any farther by bringing him back from the dead a second time. So, what are they doing? Let the news clippings of years worth of disappearances tucked away throughout the first films be one hint. Let the backwards-rolling teaser for the third be another. But there's no need for hints, really, because the title of this one pretty much says it flat out: Fritt Vilt 3 is subtitled Begynnelsen which translates to English as Beginning. We're getting an origin story, one due to arrive in October of 2010.
And among those pictures - of course - was a sequel to Uthaug's trailer blazer. Less successful critically but still a big hit at the box office, Fritt Vilt 2 carried on the franchise with a new director at the helm but continuing the story from exactly where the first left off. And now they're back for more. Or are they?
More would imply a continuation but it appears that they're content to leave their hulking killer dead in the present within this franchise, choosing not to stretch credibility any farther by bringing him back from the dead a second time. So, what are they doing? Let the news clippings of years worth of disappearances tucked away throughout the first films be one hint. Let the backwards-rolling teaser for the third be another. But there's no need for hints, really, because the title of this one pretty much says it flat out: Fritt Vilt 3 is subtitled Begynnelsen which translates to English as Beginning. We're getting an origin story, one due to arrive in October of 2010.
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