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3-> ''"You'll catch your death."''
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5''Cold Prey'' (original title ''Fritt Vilt'', which translates to "open season") is a 2006 Norwegian horror/[[SlasherMovie slasher film]], directed by Roar Uthaug and starring Creator/IngridBolsoBerdal, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Endre Martin Midtstigen and Viktoria Winge. A sequel ''Cold Prey II'' (''Fritt Vilt II'', also known as ''Cold Prey: Resurrection'') was released in 2008 and was directed by Mats Stenberg. This was then followed by a prequel ''Cold Prey III'' in 2010.
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7The trilogy uses a lot of common SlasherMovie [[{{Troperiffic}} tropes and clichés]], while [[SubvertedTrope subverting a few at the same time]]. Although the common tropes make the events that unfold in the films somewhat predictable, the acting, cinematography and genuinely foreboding atmosphere won over audiences and critics.
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9The first film follows a group of five friends - Jannicke, Eirik, Morten Tobias, Mikal and Ingunn - as they drive into the mountains of Jotunheimen for a day of snowboarding. Unfortunately, things turn sour when Morten has an accident, breaking his leg. Miles away from civilization, with the car too far away and realizing that Morten's injury cannot be treated in the wilderness, the group spots a nearby hotel and decide to seek help there.
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11Upon their arrival, they discover that there is no one to be found at the hotel. After treating Morten's injury with supplies found within the building, the group decides to seek shelter for the night, with the intention of going for help in the morning. Eirik, Mikal and Ingunn go off to explore, while Jannicke stays and looks after Morten. The first three discover the electric generator of the hotel. Eirik fixes it, restoring power to the hotel. Afterwards, the three discover some odd things within the building, including a fire axe cabinet (with the fire axe missing), a burnt-out room with a broken window, a bathroom with strange stains in it, and Eirik hears a strange, unidentified noise. Thinking little of it, they all return to the parlor. As they are all relaxing, Jannicke finds the hotel's guestbook and discovers that the last guest checked in sometime during 1975. Under the names of the last registered guests, there is a message reading: "We hope you find your son".
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13What they don't realize, however, is that they are being watched...
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15The second film picks up where the first ended and brings the story to a conclusion. The third film shows the killer doing his thing in the eighties.
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17!!These films contain examples of:
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19* AbandonedHospital: Much of the second film is set within a nearly-empty hospital.
20* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Mountain Man's father Gunnar abused him and forced him to live in the basement. His mother just looked the other way]]
21%% * ActionSurvivor: Jannicke.
22* AgonyOfTheFeet: An arrow is shot through Magne's foot in the third film.
23%% * AxCrazy: Who do you think?
24* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the third film]].
25* BarrierBustingBlow: The killer grabs Magne through a door in the third film.
26* BearTrap: Mikal steps into one in the first film.
27%% * BeardOfEvil: The Mountain Man. Also Jon from the prequel.
28* BigDamnHeroes:
29** Towards the end of the sequel, [[spoiler:Camilla turns up to save Jannicke from the Mountain Man.]]
30** Earlier in the same film, [[spoiler:Ole]] turns up at the last moment to stop the Mountain Man from killing [[spoiler:Camilla.]]
31* BlatantLies: After Morten suffers a particularly nasty breakage in his leg, Jannicke tells him that it's just "a small fracture" to try and keep him calm.
32* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Jannicke delivers one to the Mountain Man, just to make sure he's ''really'' dead this time.]]
33* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: The killer's parents attempted to do this to him in 1976]].
34%% * CainAndAbel: The nice guy Einar and his evil recluse brother Jon in the third film.
35* CameraAbuse: When [[spoiler:Morten]] is killed, blood splatters onto the lens.
36* CannotSpitItOut: Morten towards Jannicke. Towards the end of the first film, he tries to tell her that he loves her, but can't finish his sentence. Jannicke replies that she already knows.
37* CaughtInASnare: The killer catches Officer Kim with such a trap in the second film.
38* ChaseScene: The first film opens with a little boy being chased around in the snow.
39* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The shotgun shell]] in the first film, and [[spoiler:the "box of junk"]] in the second.
40%% * CrazySurvivalist: Mountain Man.
41* CreepyChild: The killer became one after [[spoiler:his parents tried to kill him]].
42* DangerousWindows: The killer attacks Jannicke's company in the police car through its windows in the second film.
43%% * DevelopingDoomedCharacters: First and third film.
44* DisguisedHostageGambit: Jannicke aims the shotgun at a door, knowing that the MountainMan is going to have to come through it. However, when the door opens, he is holding [[spoiler:Eirik]] in front of him. Tobias realizes what is happening to knock the shotgun aside just as Jannicke fires.
45* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: The killer seemingly dies in the first film when he falls into a crevasse. As it turns out, it wasn't quite enough to kill him.]]
46%% * DoggedNiceGuy: Sverre to Audhild in the second film.
47* DontGoInTheWoods: The horror starts in the third film when the main cast decides to spent a night in the woods.
48* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Happens when Jannicke is struggling with the Mountain Man at the climax of the first film.]]
49* DyingMomentOfAwesome: In spite of being mortally wounded, [[spoiler:Ole]] is able to make his way out of the hospital and manages to save [[spoiler:Camilla's]] life by shooting the Mountain Man. He dies of his wounds very shortly after.
50* EurekaMoment: When Einar in the prequel starts going through the papers of the Stenoe Mountain Lodge case, he realizes that [[spoiler:he saw the missing boy's sweater in his brother's home back in 1976 after seeing one of the photo's depicting him]].
51* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The first film takes place over two days.
52* EyeScream: The Mountain Man tries (and fails) to gouge out [[spoiler:Camilla's]] eyes with his thumbs towards the end of the sequel.
53* TheFaceless: The Mountain Man has his face covered most of the time, to protect him from the harsh environment (and because it looks imposing).
54* FanDisservice: [[spoiler:Ingunn]] in nothing but her underwear? Nice. [[spoiler:The fact that she's just taken a pickaxe to the shoulder, is covered in her own blood and about to die?]] ''Not'' so nice.
55%% * FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Jannicke.]]
56* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:The Mountain Man gets two of his fingers blown off with a shotgun in the sequel. This doesn't seem to cause him much pain - it just makes him ''angry''.]]
57* FromDressToDressing: After Morten breaks his leg in the first movie, Jannicke gets Ingunn to pass her her spare shirt from her pack and uses it to splint Morten's leg.
58%% * GoryDiscretionShot: Most (though not all) of the killings in both films fall into this category.
59%% * GratuitousRape: Jon rapes Siri in the prequel.
60%% * GrossUpCloseUp: Done in the sequel when the police are taking pictures of the victims.
61* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: In the car trip to the mountain, Morten mentions (very unconvincingly) that he has a girlfriend and that they have sex several times a day.
62* HandicappedBadass: In spite of not being able to walk properly due to his broken leg, Morten is still willing to [[spoiler:do his best to slow down the Mountain Man in order to let Jannicke escape.]]
63* HealItWithBooze: In the first film, Jannicke uses high proof alcohol to disinfect the compound fracture on Morten's leg where the bone is poking through the skin.
64* HelplessWindowDeath: [[spoiler: Mikal steps into a bear trap and gets killed by the Mountain Man while Jannicke and Morten Tobias watch from a window, unable to help.]]
65* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Morten]] opts to stay behind and fight off the Mountain Man, partly by attempting to bluff him, in order to give [[spoiler:Jannicke]] a chance to escape.
66* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:At the end of the sequel, the Mountain Man is impaled through the chest with his own pickaxe.]]
67* HopeSpot:
68** Einar arrives at Jon's place in third film when Siri is there, but just when she tries to alert him, Jon grabs her.
69** A particularly cruel one happens in the first film. [[spoiler: Ingunn, bleeding and weakened, is ''right'' in the entrance of the parlour - but, as she's too weak to cry out and Mikal is blasting loud music, no-one hears or sees her.]]
70* HospitalHottie: Camilla and Audhild. With the latter, Sverre ''definitely'' seems to think so. [[LampshadeHanging Audhild even admits to Sverre]] that one of the reasons she wanted to be a nurse in the first place was because of the fact that [[{{Fanservice}} some guys like nurse uniforms]].
71* HostileWeather: Strong wind builds up outside the hotel in the first as the cast take shelter there.
72%% * HumanShield: [[spoiler:The Mountain Man uses Eirik as one.]]
73* ImmuneToBullets: The Mountain Man isn't fazed in the second film when he is shot. He also takes two shots point-blank from Simen in the third film, though there is a possibility that he just missed.
74%% * ImplacableMan: The Mountain Man.
75%% * InTheHood: Mountain Man's outfit of choice in the third film.
76* KickTheDog: The Mountain Man (either knowingly or unknowingly) keeps [[spoiler: Eirik]] alive, uses him as a human shield, then stabs him with his pickaxe as [[spoiler:Jannicke and Morten]] can only watch in horror. In the second film, he knocks out [[spoiler:Audhild]], ''just'' so he can drag her to the shower, prop her up, and ''wait for her to wake up'' before he kills her.
77%% * KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor Ingunn... and poor Audhild.]]
78* KneeCapping: Jannicke stabs the Mountain man in the knee in the climax of the first film.
79%% * LeanAndMean: The Mountain Man.
80* MadeOfIron: The second film reveals that the Mountain Man survived the damage done to him in the first film. And then some.
81* [[MadwomanInTheAttic Madman in the Attic]]: [[spoiler:The killer was kept locked up in the basement by his parents when he was little.]]
82* MakeOutKids: Mikal and Ingunn in the first film. They spend the car trip to the mountain making out in the backseat next to an uncomfortable Morten Tobias. Later, when everyone is trapped in the abandoned hotel, they decide to go find a room they can have sex in.
83%% * MirrorScare: There is a build up to one in the third film but it plays differently.
84%% * NeckSnap: How [[spoiler:Mikal]] meets his end, and how [[spoiler:Herman]] meets his end in the sequel.
85* NeverRecycleABuilding: The hotel hasn't been used for over 30 years.
86%% * NiceGuy: Eirik.
87* NightmareSequence: After being sedated in the sequel, Jannicke has a nightmare of the Mountain Man attacking her.
88* NoNameGiven: The name of the killer is never revealed - he is merely credited as "Fjellmannen", which translates to Mountain Man.
89* NotQuiteDead: The Mountain in the sequel. It is also revealed that [[spoiler: he was literally born not quite dead, as he was stillborn for hours before coming back to life suddenly]].
90%% * NothingIsScarier
91%% * NumberedSequels
92* OnceIsNotEnough: [[spoiler:Jannicke]] is experienced enough to know this by the sequel. [[spoiler:After impaling the Mountain Man with his own pickaxe, she grabs the nearby police shotgun, strides up to his body, and blows his brains out.]]
93* PlayingWithSyringes: Jannicke arms herself with a full syringe when things start to go downhill in the hospital.
94* PoliceAreUseless: The local police force's investigative methods have a lot to improve on. Averted, however, in the sense that they do go to investigate the crevasse almost immediately after hearing Jannicke's story.
95* PowerfulPick: The Mountain Man uses a pickaxe as his weapon of choice in the first two films.
96%% * RedRightHand: [[spoiler:The Mountain Man's birthmark]].
97* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The Mountain Man is the little boy from the beginning of the first film and his parents tried to kill him.]]
98* SadClown: Morten Tobias in the first film. He may be the joker of the group, but it's obvious that he is in love with Jannicke, but can't have her as she is in love with Eirik.
99%% * SceneryPorn: It is to be expected when snowboarding is included.
100* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The prequel opens with the killer retaliating on his parents for the attempt on his life.]]
101%% * SerialKiller: The Mountain Man has killed a ''lot'' of people.
102* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:Gunnar is missing his beard]] in the third film.
103* SexSignalsDeath: Averted. [[spoiler:Ingunn, who is still a virgin, refuses to have sex with Mikal as she doesn't feel quite ready yet. She is the first character to die.]]
104* ShowerScene: Audhild in the sequel has one after her shift is over. Interestingly, the scene is set up in a tense fashion, making one assume that she's going to meet her untimely end there. [[spoiler:She doesn't - at that point in time, anyway. To elaborate, she is knocked out by the Mountain Man in the hospital corridor before he actually drags her back into the shower, ''waits for her to wake up'', and then proceeds to smash her head in with a fire extinguisher.]]
105%% * SkinnyDipping: Hedda and Magne in the third film go for a nude swim on a lake.
106* SlashedThroat: The first thing that the Mountain Man does in the second film after waking up is slash [[spoiler: Sverre's]] throat open.
107%% * TheSlowWalk: The Mountain Man is a master at this.
108* ThrowingTheDistraction: In the first film, Tobias throws a spanner at the door to the Mountain Man's hidden room in the cellar to attract his attention.
109%% * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Jannicke, especially in the sequel.]]
110* TrophyRoom: Jannicke and Mikal find the killer's collection of stuff from his past victims in the first film.
111%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: Jannicke and Morten.
112* UranusIsShowing: In the first film, Morten gets drunk and tells Jannicke a story about the first time he got drunk. He as at school and his next class was physics. When the teacher asked him a question about Uranus, he replied "How the hell should I know? I've never seen your anus!".[[note]]He then admits that he made the whole story up.[[/note]]
113%% * TheVoiceless: The Mountain Man. He does [[spoiler:however says a few words when we see him as a kid]].
114* WrenchWhack: Herman throws a wrench at the killer when he meets him.

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