A group of teens are invited to a skiing workshop run by Daddy (Miroslav Machácek) and his helpers Dingo (Tomás Palatý) and Babeta (Stepánka Cervenková) somewhere deep in the mountains pretty much cut off from the outer world - and once there, Daddy notices there's one participant too many, meaning someone has sneaked in, and he and Dingo and Babeta try to make the teens pretty much betray the one surplus member, but the teens decide to stick together - and frankly doubt there's one who's not on the list -, even if that means reduced rations for everyone. Soon enough, our teens take part in all the usual winter camp hijinks, and if it wasn't for the watchful eyes and punishing attitudes of Daddy and company, it would be a camp like any other. But our teens soon find out that there's something wrong with Daddy and friends, very wrong - and we're talking about that sort of wrong that Daddy, Dingo and Babeta might not be actually human and might want to enslave the teens or even feed on them. Problem is, our young heroes are really cut off from the outer world, and Daddy and co are much better equipped for the snowy terrain, so running away is not an option ...

Now there's an interesting movie indeed: It's part your usual summer camp movie, part slasher (though with a low body count) - but also part political metaphor, as the whole thing can also be understood as an allegory for the police state, which rather hit home given the political situation of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. And add to that some typically Czech humour and that people's predilection for the macabre and you've got ... not a perfect movie, it stays too close to teen camp and slasher mainstays for that, but a very interesting historical document - made up as a shallow horror flick.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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