Saw Cold Prey 2, a Norwegian horror film which picks up shortly after the events of the first film. As in the first film, this one takes its time building the characters and their relationships before introducing the Big Bad. Who the Big Bad is is also interesting by the way. Spoiler alert but they killed the baddy in the first film, so is it his ghost, his family, the surviving female perhaps, gone mad with PTSD? I won't spoil it but its a neat solution which feels clever and earned.
Anyway, the film is very by-the-numbers once it gets going. Fake-out scares give way to plot-relevant scares, adorable moppets are perpetually in grave danger, and doorknobs prove to be the most difficult thing to operate in the world. The film has few real surprises after the first half hour. There's a bit more mythos-building but it's stuff you could almost guess given that this is a horror film (troubled children! Mutilated animals!!)
There's one really nice shot in the rearview mirror of a car near the start that I really really liked, and a late-game fake-out which turns into a genuinely funny joke. Apart from that, very by the numbers.
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