Frostbiten

Frostbiten
Directed by	Anders Banke
Produced by	Göran Lindström Magnus Paulsson
Written by	Daniel Ojanlatva
Starring	Petra Nielsen Grete Havnesköld Jonas Karlström Emma Åberg
Music by	Anthony Lledo
Cinematography	Chris Maris
Edited by	Kiko C.C. Sjöberg
Production company	Solid Entertainment Cinepost Studios Cinestar Production AB Fido Film AB Film i Skåne Filmpool Nord Moviemakers Nord AB Persson-Mothander Film Svenska Stuntgruppen Yggdrasil AB
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 6, 2006 (2006-02-06)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish German
Budget	21,000,000 SEK (about $3,000,000)

Frostbite (Swedish title: Frostbiten) is a Swedish comedy horror film from 2006 directed by Anders Banke.

As well as the horror theme, various parts also have pure humour elements, and it is considered a horror/comedy by some newspapers that rated it. The film takes place in a small town in northern Sweden during midwinter, making the environment perfect for vampires—because there are no sunny hours during the dark and cold Nordic winter days. The vampire clan originate from Ukraine, where Swedish volunteers serving with an SS regiment are attacked by vampires and bring the plague of vampirism home, where an SS officer is later the head of the clan.

During World War II in Ukraine, 1944, the remnants of are fleeing from The Red Army. Using the protection of the woods and the dark, a platoon partly made up of Swedes escapes the massacre. They seek shelter in an abandoned cabin, but as darkness falls they are attacked by vampires inhabiting a hidden crypt under the cabin.

In present-day Sweden, doctor Annika and her teenage daughter Saga are moving to a town in Lappland, so Annika can work close to the famous Swedish geneticist Gerhard Beckert. Since Lappland is located above the Arctic Circle, the polar night has begun. With one month until dawn, there are only a few hours of sunless twilight each day before complete darkness, much to Saga's dismay.

Saga finds a friend in the enigmatic gothgirl Vega, who invites her to a party to be held in few days at her friend John's house. Saga decides to go, having nothing better to do. As Annika starts to work at the hospital, she meets the lousy medical student Sebastian, who has been stealing a can of strange pills with which Beckert has been treating a comatose patient. Sebastian thinks the pills are drugs and tries them. But rather than getting high, he starts to develop acute hearing and improved vision, and is tormented by extreme thirst. Vega shows up at Sebastian's house to pick up the drugs he promised her for John's party. Sebastian tells her he has forgotten to get them, but Vega thinks he is holding out (that is, doesn't want to share them). Sebastian rushes away to his girlfriend Cornelia's house to have dinner with her and her parents. Vega finds the can and steals it, bringing it to John. John, Vega and their closest circuit of friends devour them.