Frostbiten (Anders Banke, 2006)

Frostbite can, I suppose, lay claim to having inspired a Hollywood splatterfest, beyond just being derivative of Hollywood splatterfests. Unfortunately what the scenario of vampires in a dayless Arctic inspired, the following year's 30 Days of Night, proved to be just as uninspired as this. An uneven application of tasteless comedy over a rudimentary plot of teens turning into the ravenous undead in a frozen Lapland town does not do for genre enrichment. Oh, there's also a Nazi connection too, so presumably blame can also be attributed to the director for the germ of the almost as shoddy Dead Snow an few years later...thank God Let the Right One in came along to salvage the whole concept of a Scandinavian vampire flick single-handed. After all, the setting alone should ensure some kind of novelty. This ineptly acted and edited botch-job shows no evidence of that potential, however.

3/10