Cold Prey Beginning is a 2010 Norwegian horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

, it is the prequel to the highly successful Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt), and Cold Prey 2

Cold Prey 2

Cold Prey 2: Resurrection is a 2008 Norwegian horror film, directed by Mats Stenberg. It is the sequel to the highly successful Cold Prey , and premiered in Norway on 10 October 2008. It was directed by Roar Uthaug and starred Ingrid Bolsø Berdal in the leading role. The film picks up where the...

(Fritt Vilt II). It is directed by Mikkel Brænne Sandemose and starred Nils Johnson

Nils Johnson

-Theatre career:He made his stage debut in 1980 at Nordland Teater, and then worked at Hålogaland Teater from 1981 to 1989 and Trøndelag Teater from 1989 to 2000. From 2001 to 2008 he was the director of Hålogaland Teater.-Movie career:...

 in the leading role.

Plot

Five young friends take a snowboarding trip in the mountains, here lurks a hulking killer. In flashback

Flashback (narrative)

Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory...

's centers the killer's childhood and youth in the 80s.

Cast

Actor	Character
Ida Marie Bakkerud	Hedda
Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen	Anders
Pål Stokka	Magne
Julie Rusti	Siri
Arthur Berning	Simen
Sturla Rui	Knut
Terje Ranes	Einar
Nils Johnson Nils Johnson -Theatre career:He made his stage debut in 1980 at Nordland Teater, and then worked at Hålogaland Teater from 1981 to 1989 and Trøndelag Teater from 1989 to 2000. From 2001 to 2008 he was the director of Hålogaland Teater.-Movie career:...	Jon
Hallvard Holmen	Bjørn Brath
Trine Wiggen	Magny Brath

Production

Cold Prey 3 is set to be a prequel to the first two movies. It was completely shot in Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km² in Southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains. The 29 highest mountains in Norway are all in Jotunheimen, including the very highest - Galdhøpiggen...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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Release

The movie will premiere on 15 October 2010 in Norway. The UK and US release is today unknown.