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* DoingInTheWizard: Vampirism is explained as a virus. On the other hand, [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelive crosses and prayer weilded by a person with faith and simply tuching said person hurts the vampires]] causing it to kind of fall [[MaymyMagicMaybyMundane between the chairs]]. This can lead to several conclusions:
** (1) The virus is magical, the most likeley explanation.
** (2) The brain is the last part of the body to be infected, completing the transformation. Some people seem to go through serve personality changes while others remain the same, althrough more sinister. This could mean that the effect of religious symbols are simply a part of the psychosomatic problems caused by infection and the characters impression of vampire stories affects how religious symbols hurt them in a kind of YourMindMakesItReal. This is why Vega is not affected by a cross while [[spoiler: Sebastian]] is: she is used to modern vampire tales where the crosses have no effect. The problem with this explanation is that it would be kind kind of weird if the virus would cause a vampire to start to burn if touched by a holy person. It's also important to know that Sweden is a very secular nation. It's possible andd very likley that Saga does not has real faith and because her cross was make shift and not blessed it has nothing more than a geometric form. Note that Saga is the only person to use a cross as a defence rather than conventional weapons. She is simply GenreSavvy.
*** It's worth to note that WordOfGod has said the virus-explanation only was added out of fear of not reciving support from the Swedish Film Institute.
** (1) The virus is magical, the most likeley explanation.
** (2) The brain is the last part of the body to be infected, completing the transformation. Some people seem to go through serve personality changes while others remain the same, althrough more sinister. This could mean that the effect of religious symbols are simply a part of the psychosomatic problems caused by infection and the characters impression of vampire stories affects how religious symbols hurt them in a kind of YourMindMakesItReal. This is why Vega is not affected by a cross while [[spoiler: Sebastian]] is: she is used to modern vampire tales where the crosses have no effect. The problem with this explanation is that it would be kind kind of weird if the virus would cause a vampire to start to burn if touched by a holy person. It's also important to know that Sweden is a very secular nation. It's possible andd very likley that Saga does not has real faith and because her cross was make shift and not blessed it has nothing more than a geometric form. Note that Saga is the only person to use a cross as a defence rather than conventional weapons. She is simply GenreSavvy.
*** It's worth to note that WordOfGod has said the virus-explanation only was added out of fear of not reciving support from the Swedish Film Institute.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Half the cast. The other half where unknows and Petra Nielsen, the only star.
** Swedish comedian Mikael Torving plays a cop. He later got casted as a police in a cop-show.
** Thomas Hedengran, a typical Swedish [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Guy-actor]] has a small role as a
** Grete Havnesköld who plays Saga is most famous in Sweden (and Japan) for playing Lotta in the movie Lotta på Bråkmakargatan from a novel by AstridLindgren. She is more famous for playing Saga in other countries now.
** Mån Nathanielsson as Sebastian's friend. He has appeared in numerous Swedish films and televison series.
** Per Löfberg from EvilEd plays the villian.
** Comedian Anders Johansson voices a dog.
** Linn Bülow, Isidor Torkar & Carl-Åke Eriksson from MysterietPaGreveholm appears.
** Nour El-Refai as Sebastian's girlfriend.
** Swedish comedian Mikael Torving plays a cop. He later got casted as a police in a cop-show.
** Thomas Hedengran, a typical Swedish [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Guy-actor]] has a small role as a
** Grete Havnesköld who plays Saga is most famous in Sweden (and Japan) for playing Lotta in the movie Lotta på Bråkmakargatan from a novel by AstridLindgren. She is more famous for playing Saga in other countries now.
** Mån Nathanielsson as Sebastian's friend. He has appeared in numerous Swedish films and televison series.
** Per Löfberg from EvilEd plays the villian.
** Comedian Anders Johansson voices a dog.
** Linn Bülow, Isidor Torkar & Carl-Åke Eriksson from MysterietPaGreveholm appears.
** Nour El-Refai as Sebastian's girlfriend.
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* GenreBlind: The coroner.
** The police officer Jacob also at first, but later he and the other police officers start to put the pieces togheter... FreakOut ensues.
** The police officer Jacob also at first, but later he and the other police officers start to put the pieces togheter... FreakOut ensues.
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* DrFeelgood: Not Sebastian actually but [[spoiler: doctor Beckert]].
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* SuperpoweredEvilSide / ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: This is what happens to all of the vampires.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, writer Daniel Ojanlatva intended the three storylines in the film to play out separatly rather than intercut between each other. That way no one would understand fully the evil plot of the villian until the very end of the film.
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* ArnTheKnightTemplar: Sebastian has all the books in his shelf.
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* TruthInTelevision: All the details about the Swedish soldiers fighting for the Nazis actually adds up the real life facts. Frostbite is not only Sweden's first vampire film, but the first (and only) film to actually bring up this topic. Mayby averted case of PoliticallyCorrectHistory.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampirism in the film is caused by a (appearently) demonic virus and there are three diffrent vampires in the film. First, there are the regular vampires who have all the typical vampire traits, pale skin, super streangh, super senses, sleeps in coffins, hurt by garlic and holy objects, no reflextion, orange/yellow eyes that turn red when bloodthirst is awaken. Then there are the modified vampires who are much like the original ones only that they turn rather demonic when attacking their victims. The third kind is the super vampire, which is able to swift in age at will and does not have pale skin or yellow/orange eyes(they do turn red when bloodthirst is awaken) and are able to transform in a completely demonic form which is physically stronger than the other vampires and harder to kill.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampirism in the film is caused by a (appearently) (''supposedly'') demonic virus and there are three diffrent vampires in the film. First, there are the regular vampires who have all the typical vampire traits, pale skin, super streangh, super senses, sleeps in coffins, hurt by garlic and holy objects, no reflextion, orange/yellow eyes that turn red when bloodthirst is awaken. Then there are the modified vampires who are much like the original ones only that they turn rather demonic when attacking their victims. The third kind is the super vampire, which is able to swift in age at will and does not have pale skin or yellow/orange eyes(they do turn red when bloodthirst is awaken) and are able to transform in a completely demonic form which is physically stronger than the other vampires and harder to kill.
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* UnreliableExpositor: Beckert gives Annika some exposition of the nature of the vampires in the film. While it seems to be legit in some aspects of it, but in others such as the vampire's abillity to talk to dogs and aversion of blessed objects it seems to fall apart. [[spoiler:Considering that Annika is a doctor and disbelives his claims aboout vampires he could just tell her what she "wants" to hear. Also, Beckert would probably try to give her as little information as possible to not loose the upper hand]].
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* BreakThemByTalking: The Shape does this to Annika. She has him on the ground, ready with a stake and hammer to kill him if he tries anything. But as soon as he discovers that Annika does not realise that she is becoming a vampire he bullies her into stepping away from him in fear of what she will become and letting her guard down enough for him to attack.
* BreakThemByTalking: The Shape does this to Annika. She has him on the ground, ready with a stake and hammer to kill him if he tries anything. But as soon as he discovers that Annika does not realise that she is becoming a vampire he bullies her into stepping away from him in fear of what she will become and letting her guard down enough for him to attack.
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* GenreSavvy: Saga's first reaction whenever she meets a vampire is to throw a punch or pick up a weapon.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Saga is quick to realise that her new friends are vampire and by logic uses the first anti-vampire tool she can put her hands on: two sticks which she uses to form a cross. Unfortunaly, she is not genre savvy enough to know that [[ReligionIsMagic she needs faith for that to work]].
** By extension, this makes Vega DangerouslyGenreSavvy
** And the Shape too, as he has made his chest strong enough. He knows impaling the heart can kill him so he has made modified himself so that his chest in his transformed state can withstand such attacks better [[spoiler:althrough it weakens him]].
** By extension, this makes Vega DangerouslyGenreSavvy
** And the Shape too, as he has made his chest strong enough. He knows impaling the heart can kill him so he has made modified himself so that his chest in his transformed state can withstand such attacks better [[spoiler:althrough it weakens him]].
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* IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore: Dr. Nilsson says this when he talks about the bite marks on Sander's throat.
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Written four years before the ''30 Days of Night'' comic and released a year before [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight the movie]], the first Swedish vampire film shows a crazy Nazi-vampire (yes, Nazi-vampire) living up in the frozen north of Sweden where the sun does not show up for a month. The arrival of medical doctor Annika and her teenage daughter Saga unleashes the worst bloodbath Sweden has witnessed since the Vikings, where everything from cute little bunnies to waffen-SS gets torn apart by vampires.
This horror-comedy received mixed reviews in its homeland and failed at the Swedish box office, but proved to be a hit in Russia and was sold for distribution to over 40 nations. It won the grand prize at Fantasporto 2006.
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Written four years before the ''30 Days of Night'' comic and released a year before [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight the movie]], the first Swedish vampire film shows a crazy Nazi-vampire (yes, Nazi-vampire) living up in the [[GrimUpNorth frozen north of Sweden Sweden]] where the sun does not show up for a month. The arrival of medical doctor Annika and her teenage daughter Saga unleashes the worst bloodbath Sweden has witnessed since the Vikings, where everything from cute little bunnies to waffen-SS gets torn apart by vampires.
This horror-comedy received mixed reviews in its homeland and failed at the Swedish box office, but proved to be a hit in Russia and was sold for distribution to over 40nations.nations, hitting cinemas in UK, Japan, the Philippines, Turkey and Thailand and being relead on DVD in USA, Germany, Spain, Greece, Finland and France among others. It won the grand prize at Fantasporto 2006.
This horror-comedy received mixed reviews in its homeland and failed at the Swedish box office, but proved to be a hit in Russia and was sold for distribution to over 40
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** The villian is not wearing pants or any underware for the last third of the movie. We only see his but twice.
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* OneWingedAngel: The villian transforms into a creture that kind of LooksLikeOrlok. And is naked.
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* TruthInTelevision: All the details about the Swedish soldiers fighting for the Nazis actually adds up the real life facts.
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* DarkestHour: At the end of the film. Both symbolicly and litterary.
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-->''"Don't worry. This will soon be over. Dawn is... just a month away."''
Written four years before the ''30 Days of Night'' comic and released a year before [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight the movie]], the first Swedish vampire film shows a crazy Nazi-vampire (yes, Nazi-vampire) living up in the frozen north of Sweden where the sun does not show up for a month. The arrival of medical doctor Annika and her teenage daughter Saga unleashes the worst bloodbath Sweden has witnessed since the Vikings, where everything from cute little bunnies to waffen-SS gets torn apart by vampires.
This horror-comedy received mixed reviews in its homeland and failed at the Swedish box office, but proved to be a hit in Russia and was sold for distribution to over 40 nations. It won the grand prize at Fantasporto 2006.
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!!''Frostbite'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AstridLindgren: Grete Havnesköld who plays Saga started her carrier playing the lead in 2 Astrid Lindgren adaptations.
* BarrierBustingBlow: The Shape bursts a door, despite it not being locked.
* BlackComedy: Throughout most of the film
* BigBad: The Shape aka [[spoiler: Gerard Beckert]]
* ClassicalMovieVampire: The jock vampire John dresses kind of like Bela Lugosi.
* CircleOfEvil
* CityWithNoName
* CuriosityKilledtheCast: Most of the deaths are caused by this.
* DarkSecret
* DeathGlare: After being turned into a vampire and killing dozens, the brief and hard to notice look on John's face before he notices Saga is in the room is best described as utterly soulless. In a good way.
* DiscretionShot: The worst violence happens offscreen and we only see the aftermath.
* DisappearedDad
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The evil nazi-vampire is dead and his sinister plans have been stoped. The problem? Annika has been turned to a vampire and John, Joel and the other teen vampires spreas the infection beyond possible control of the police. Oh, and there is still several weeks until dawn.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Without spoiling to much, this film takes "Drugs are bad" to a completely new level.
* EnemyRisingBehind: The vampire Joel
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The big bad Nazi-vampire prays for the soul of one of his victims after killing him and is shown visibly distressed for having killed his friend.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most of the vampires.
* EnforcedMethodActing: This film had in no ways the money to shot the outdoorscenes in a studio with fake snow. It was actually shot in the northern part of Sweden during winter, but not during the polar night against the director's wishes. It was so cold that actress Grete Havnesköld, who played Saga, started to cry, the actors playing the vampires had to walk around covered in blood during freezing rain, said freezing rain created a layer of "ice armour" of all of the film equipment and the cold caused the cameras to break down.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold
* EyeScream: A vampire bites out a girl's eye.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Depending on how you read the ending. One can read it as either that Saga will be turned into a vampire ''or'' that she will live to tell the tale of what happened; Saga is the Norse goddess of storytelling; her name means "the one who sees", alluding to the fact that she will tell others what she saw.]]
* {{Geek}}: Joel and Robert
* {{Ghostapo}}
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* GreenEyes: With the exeption of Cissi, who is black, ALL of the vampires original eye color was green.
* HauntedCastle: The town hospital is pretty much a haunted castle.
* HunterofHisOwnKind: [[spoiler:Beckert kills the vampires he has created to keep the population under control.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: Maria has little love for her Nazi-vampire father. [[spoiler:Probably it's due to him keeping her in the hospital basement and experimenting on her.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Vega]] is impaled on a garden gnome.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Vampire killed by impalement on garden gnome. Nuff said.
* KickTheDog: After being turned into a vampire, the medical intern Sebastian does not kick the dog, he eats it! Earlier, he takes a bite out of the pet bunny belonging to the brother of his girlfriend.
* KubrickStare: Vegas does while delivering her one line that is not funny or charming, but scary as s**t.
* LargeHam: The Van Helsing of the film, Gerard Beckert, hams it up.
* Leitmotif: **The "Vampire Theme": The main theme of the film. A classical horror theme with diffrent variations for each character because [[spoiler: Every character becomes a vampire at the end]]
** "Saga's Theme": A beautiful piece that is completely diffrent from the brutal main theme because [[spoiler: Saga does not became a vampire at the end]].
* LesbianVampire: Vega shows an intense (and possibly sexual) intererst in Saga.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The Shape, the main villain.
* LovableJock: John, until he turns
* MadScientist
* MamaBear: Annika
* {{Metalhead}}: Joel and Robert
* NightmareFace: A certain type of the vampires has their face transforming when in "attack-mode". Ironically, this takes away the much creepier human look they have otherwise.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A twisted version; vampires don't cause the absence of sunlight, but they take advantage of the fact that it's naturally absent for the month.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: When chased by the vampire John, Saga slips on a corpse and this saves her from him.
* NorseMythology: Character named Saga, after the godess of storytelling
* OhCrap
* OnlyOneName: We only get to know the last name of 4 characters.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampirism in the film is caused by a (appearently) demonic virus and there are three diffrent vampires in the film. First, there are the regular vampires who have all the typical vampire traits, pale skin, super streangh, super senses, sleeps in coffins, hurt by garlic and holy objects, no reflextion, orange/yellow eyes that turn red when bloodthirst is awaken. Then there are the modified vampires who are much like the original ones only that they turn rather demonic when attacking their victims. The third kind is the super vampire, which is able to swift in age at will and does not have pale skin or yellow/orange eyes(they do turn red when bloodthirst is awaken) and are able to transform in a completely demonic form which is physically stronger than the other vampires and harder to kill.
* PaintTheTownRed: John paints his own house red with his own guests.
* ParodyRetcon: Averted. The film has been accused of this from time to time, but the documents about the film that was sent to the Swedish Film Institute BEFORE the film was made makes it clear it was intended as a horror-comedy from the get go. A reason for this was that the trailers made it seem like a straight horror film, only showing the scary scenes.
* PerkyGoth: Vega again
* PlayingAgainstType: ''Frostbite'' is the one Swedish film with a target audience above 12 that does not take a turn to be dark and depressing but rather cheerfully shows all the teens meeting eighter brutal death at the hands of the unholy demons or losing their immortal souls becoming said demons.
* PoliceAreUseless: Guns and authority proves useless against vampires, especially when the vampires you are facing rebeling teens.
* Really700YearsOld: The Shape appears to be 60, but must be over 100 years old. Maria looks about 10 but is really about 70–80.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some Swedish critics complained that the accent of many of the cast members sounded like typical Swedish northern. Many of the cast members where actually born and raised in Norrland. The actor playing John is from Pajala, a Swedish town famous for being a small town located in far north in the middle of nowhere who of any one should have a heavy accent, talks with such a hardly noticeble accent it's hard to tell if he just added a few streaks for realism.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Before the identity of the head vampire is revealed, in one scene we see his eyes get a streak of red in them for a moment.
* RedRightHand: [[spoiler: Gerard Beckert]] has a scar on his face which he recived when fighting for the nazis.
* ReligionIsMagic: Religious faith is the best weapon against these vamps. Even saying grace before dinner drives them off.
* ScienceIsBad: [[spoiler:Gerard Beckert]] made the uncurable demonic vampire-virus even worse using science.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
* SnowMeansDeath
* SpecialEffectFailure: The digital demonic faces some of the vampires get when extra bloodthirsty looks pretty silly, ironic since the traditional make up effects are quite terrifying. Also, at one point you can see wrinkles in the costume the actor playing the Shape wears.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:Saga is forced to kill her friend Vega to save herself.]]
* SuperSenses
* TakeOvertheWorld: As simplistic and dull as the villian's motive can get
* TearOffYourFace: In the film's prologe, a nazi platoon find a victim of one of the vampire who has had his face ripped to shreds.
* TeensAreMonsters: Litterary.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The villian [[spoiler:is a professor who wants to create a masterrace of vampires.]]
* TimeshiftedActor: Young Beckert is played by Swedish explotation star Per Löfberg.
* TownwithaDarkSecret
* UndeadChild: Maria
* UnEvilLaugh: The vampire John delivers a demonic laugh. With a helium voice.
* VampireApocalypse: [[spoiler:Basically, the ending.]]
* VampireBitesSuck: The newborn vampire rips up faces and necks, and rips off limbs to get to the blood.
* VampireHunter
* WallCrawling: These vampires love climbing on walls.
* WhatHappenedToMommy: [[spoiler:Saga gets a bad surprise when Annika shows up at the end as a vampire.]]
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Written four years before the ''30 Days of Night'' comic and released a year before [[Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight the movie]], the first Swedish vampire film shows a crazy Nazi-vampire (yes, Nazi-vampire) living up in the frozen north of Sweden where the sun does not show up for a month. The arrival of medical doctor Annika and her teenage daughter Saga unleashes the worst bloodbath Sweden has witnessed since the Vikings, where everything from cute little bunnies to waffen-SS gets torn apart by vampires.
This horror-comedy received mixed reviews in its homeland and failed at the Swedish box office, but proved to be a hit in Russia and was sold for distribution to over 40 nations. It won the grand prize at Fantasporto 2006.
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!!''Frostbite'' provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie
* AstridLindgren: Grete Havnesköld who plays Saga started her carrier playing the lead in 2 Astrid Lindgren adaptations.
* BarrierBustingBlow: The Shape bursts a door, despite it not being locked.
* BlackComedy: Throughout most of the film
* BigBad: The Shape aka [[spoiler: Gerard Beckert]]
* ClassicalMovieVampire: The jock vampire John dresses kind of like Bela Lugosi.
* CircleOfEvil
* CityWithNoName
* CuriosityKilledtheCast: Most of the deaths are caused by this.
* DarkSecret
* DeathGlare: After being turned into a vampire and killing dozens, the brief and hard to notice look on John's face before he notices Saga is in the room is best described as utterly soulless. In a good way.
* DiscretionShot: The worst violence happens offscreen and we only see the aftermath.
* DisappearedDad
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The evil nazi-vampire is dead and his sinister plans have been stoped. The problem? Annika has been turned to a vampire and John, Joel and the other teen vampires spreas the infection beyond possible control of the police. Oh, and there is still several weeks until dawn.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Without spoiling to much, this film takes "Drugs are bad" to a completely new level.
* EnemyRisingBehind: The vampire Joel
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The big bad Nazi-vampire prays for the soul of one of his victims after killing him and is shown visibly distressed for having killed his friend.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most of the vampires.
* EnforcedMethodActing: This film had in no ways the money to shot the outdoorscenes in a studio with fake snow. It was actually shot in the northern part of Sweden during winter, but not during the polar night against the director's wishes. It was so cold that actress Grete Havnesköld, who played Saga, started to cry, the actors playing the vampires had to walk around covered in blood during freezing rain, said freezing rain created a layer of "ice armour" of all of the film equipment and the cold caused the cameras to break down.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold
* EyeScream: A vampire bites out a girl's eye.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Depending on how you read the ending. One can read it as either that Saga will be turned into a vampire ''or'' that she will live to tell the tale of what happened; Saga is the Norse goddess of storytelling; her name means "the one who sees", alluding to the fact that she will tell others what she saw.]]
* {{Geek}}: Joel and Robert
* {{Ghostapo}}
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* GreenEyes: With the exeption of Cissi, who is black, ALL of the vampires original eye color was green.
* HauntedCastle: The town hospital is pretty much a haunted castle.
* HunterofHisOwnKind: [[spoiler:Beckert kills the vampires he has created to keep the population under control.]]
* IHateYouVampireDad: Maria has little love for her Nazi-vampire father. [[spoiler:Probably it's due to him keeping her in the hospital basement and experimenting on her.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Vega]] is impaled on a garden gnome.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Vampire killed by impalement on garden gnome. Nuff said.
* KickTheDog: After being turned into a vampire, the medical intern Sebastian does not kick the dog, he eats it! Earlier, he takes a bite out of the pet bunny belonging to the brother of his girlfriend.
* KubrickStare: Vegas does while delivering her one line that is not funny or charming, but scary as s**t.
* LargeHam: The Van Helsing of the film, Gerard Beckert, hams it up.
* Leitmotif: **The "Vampire Theme": The main theme of the film. A classical horror theme with diffrent variations for each character because [[spoiler: Every character becomes a vampire at the end]]
** "Saga's Theme": A beautiful piece that is completely diffrent from the brutal main theme because [[spoiler: Saga does not became a vampire at the end]].
* LesbianVampire: Vega shows an intense (and possibly sexual) intererst in Saga.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The Shape, the main villain.
* LovableJock: John, until he turns
* MadScientist
* MamaBear: Annika
* {{Metalhead}}: Joel and Robert
* NightmareFace: A certain type of the vampires has their face transforming when in "attack-mode". Ironically, this takes away the much creepier human look they have otherwise.
* TheNightThatNeverEnds: A twisted version; vampires don't cause the absence of sunlight, but they take advantage of the fact that it's naturally absent for the month.
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: When chased by the vampire John, Saga slips on a corpse and this saves her from him.
* NorseMythology: Character named Saga, after the godess of storytelling
* OhCrap
* OnlyOneName: We only get to know the last name of 4 characters.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampirism in the film is caused by a (appearently) demonic virus and there are three diffrent vampires in the film. First, there are the regular vampires who have all the typical vampire traits, pale skin, super streangh, super senses, sleeps in coffins, hurt by garlic and holy objects, no reflextion, orange/yellow eyes that turn red when bloodthirst is awaken. Then there are the modified vampires who are much like the original ones only that they turn rather demonic when attacking their victims. The third kind is the super vampire, which is able to swift in age at will and does not have pale skin or yellow/orange eyes(they do turn red when bloodthirst is awaken) and are able to transform in a completely demonic form which is physically stronger than the other vampires and harder to kill.
* PaintTheTownRed: John paints his own house red with his own guests.
* ParodyRetcon: Averted. The film has been accused of this from time to time, but the documents about the film that was sent to the Swedish Film Institute BEFORE the film was made makes it clear it was intended as a horror-comedy from the get go. A reason for this was that the trailers made it seem like a straight horror film, only showing the scary scenes.
* PerkyGoth: Vega again
* PlayingAgainstType: ''Frostbite'' is the one Swedish film with a target audience above 12 that does not take a turn to be dark and depressing but rather cheerfully shows all the teens meeting eighter brutal death at the hands of the unholy demons or losing their immortal souls becoming said demons.
* PoliceAreUseless: Guns and authority proves useless against vampires, especially when the vampires you are facing rebeling teens.
* Really700YearsOld: The Shape appears to be 60, but must be over 100 years old. Maria looks about 10 but is really about 70–80.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some Swedish critics complained that the accent of many of the cast members sounded like typical Swedish northern. Many of the cast members where actually born and raised in Norrland. The actor playing John is from Pajala, a Swedish town famous for being a small town located in far north in the middle of nowhere who of any one should have a heavy accent, talks with such a hardly noticeble accent it's hard to tell if he just added a few streaks for realism.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Before the identity of the head vampire is revealed, in one scene we see his eyes get a streak of red in them for a moment.
* RedRightHand: [[spoiler: Gerard Beckert]] has a scar on his face which he recived when fighting for the nazis.
* ReligionIsMagic: Religious faith is the best weapon against these vamps. Even saying grace before dinner drives them off.
* ScienceIsBad: [[spoiler:Gerard Beckert]] made the uncurable demonic vampire-virus even worse using science.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
* SnowMeansDeath
* SpecialEffectFailure: The digital demonic faces some of the vampires get when extra bloodthirsty looks pretty silly, ironic since the traditional make up effects are quite terrifying. Also, at one point you can see wrinkles in the costume the actor playing the Shape wears.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:Saga is forced to kill her friend Vega to save herself.]]
* SuperSenses
* TakeOvertheWorld: As simplistic and dull as the villian's motive can get
* TearOffYourFace: In the film's prologe, a nazi platoon find a victim of one of the vampire who has had his face ripped to shreds.
* TeensAreMonsters: Litterary.
* ThoseWackyNazis: The villian [[spoiler:is a professor who wants to create a masterrace of vampires.]]
* TimeshiftedActor: Young Beckert is played by Swedish explotation star Per Löfberg.
* TownwithaDarkSecret
* UndeadChild: Maria
* UnEvilLaugh: The vampire John delivers a demonic laugh. With a helium voice.
* VampireApocalypse: [[spoiler:Basically, the ending.]]
* VampireBitesSuck: The newborn vampire rips up faces and necks, and rips off limbs to get to the blood.
* VampireHunter
* WallCrawling: These vampires love climbing on walls.
* WhatHappenedToMommy: [[spoiler:Saga gets a bad surprise when Annika shows up at the end as a vampire.]]
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