all my friends are dead

[chrryblssmninja]

I just finished watching the Norwegian film Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt). It's a pretty standard slasher movie for the the first 2/3, but it fully exploits the situation and puts some fresh ideas to work in the last third. It's not a mindblowing classic, but it's one of the few films that does formula right.

Part of what elevates that last third is that the character Jannicke, played by Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, becomes pretty smart and compelling.

So I looked her up, and I find that she's playing Sergeant Angua in the Going Postal Discworld TV adaptation. I think she's got the Angua spirit. I forgot how much Angua's in that book, though.

haha it's awesome when I look up someone from something random I watched and it turns out they're going to be in a thing I want to see. It's happened two or three times now, I forget for whom. But it's still awesome.


also, earlier I watched another serial killer movie, Crimson Rivers (Les rivières pourpres). Both films are set high up in the wintry mountains, although the people in Cold Prey are much more isolated. Still, lol I did not do this snow + serial killer double feature on purpose


ETA: how could I forget this
I also watched Conan O'Brien last night and his response to the whole late night debacle was great and funny
COCO FTW

Comments

[probing-grays.livejournal.com]

I had no idea they were doing a Going Postal movie! That's one of my favorite Discworld books :D And they're casting Jeff from Coupling as Moist -- that should be, uh, interesting.

[secret-weapon.livejournal.com]

We've been forecast a blizzard tonight. D: Now you tell me there are serial killers in the snow! Aaaargh!

I don't think Angua, or the rest of the Watch are in Going Postal much. I hope the guy who plays Moist is good though.