Though still best known around the world as Michael Haneke's regular editor, Andreas Prochaska stepped behind the camera a couple years back as both writer and director of Dead In Three Days (In 3 Tagen Bist Du Tot), a lean and effective slasher film - a rarity in his native Austria - that went on to become a major box office hit. How big a hit? Big enough that it played to good reviews on the festival circuit all around the world and a sequel got the immediate greenlight, a sequel that has just gone before cameras.

In the summer after Nina¹s graduation, her life changed forever. Three of her best friends became victims of a psychopath, herself and her best friend Mona just barely escaping death. Nina has now only one wish: to forget. She leaves her home town, breaks off all contacts and moves to Vienna to start a new life.

Now, a year and a half later, only terrible nightmares remind her of the past. A disturbing and terrified call in the middle of the night from Mona, breaks her exile. Thinking it another dream, she tries to contact Mona, but she seems to have disappeared. Her cell phone number no longer exists, and the gas station which Mona¹s father had run has mysteriously closed down. The only remaining trace of her friend leads to Tyrol, to Mona¹s place of birth, and finally, to a lonely inn in the snow-covered mountains. The villagers avoid the place. They don¹t like the inn-keepers and numerous rumours circulate about the woman living there with her three grown sons. Despite all warnings, Nina heads for the mountains alone. It¹s her only chance of finding her best friend. However, what Nina finds at the inn is far more terrifying than the rumours suggest, plunging her into a new terror amid the inhospitable freezing snowscapes of the Austrian mountains.

One of the things that made the first film so effective was the way it fused American slasher sensibilities with distictly Euro flavor and it looks as though the sequel will continue in that vein. Like minded Norwegian slasher Cold Prey also has a sequel going before cameras at the end of this month and between the two we should have some very strong material to look for in early 2009 ...