They go largely unsaid, until the very end when Jannicke gets to have a Han Solo moment in response. She is dating Tobias’s best friend, yet that doesn’t stop him from having quiet, understated feelings for her. Jannicke’s friendship with Morten Tobias is also very sweet. I’d have happily watched a film with only these two characters in it. Sadly, Ingunn doesn’t make it very far into the film at all, although her death scene is definitely the stand-out in terms of both tension and emotion. I would really have liked to have seen Ingunn lasting a little bit longer into the film, as I think it would have been great to see her and Jannicke facing down the threat together. The two female characters have a really sweet and touching friendship, where they are mutually supportive of each other. I just have this strange feeling that the girl with the gun might survive. When you’re placed at the front of the poster, and you get to pull a bad-ass monster-fighting face in the picture, I think your survival is pretty much a given. The poster of the film makes it fairly apparent that “Jannicke” is going to be our final girl. I really loved the characters in this film (other than Mikal, but I get the feeling that we’re not supposed to feel endeared towards him anyway) and I was especially fond of the two female characters, Jannicke and Ingunn. It works with child actors too, if Let The Right One In and The Fall are anything to judge by. It may also have been aided by the subtitles – when I can’t understand what’s being said, it makes it seem more natural. In Cold Prey I wasn’t annoyed by the characters’ introductions, largely because the characters themselves weren’t complete douches for once. I often find the first half hour or so of slasher flicks to be dull, bordering on annoying, as we are introduced to unlikeable characters and forced to endure banter that seems obnoxiously forced.
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