10 Best Slasher Movies Since 2000

10. Cold Prey: Resurrection

Norway’s answer to the 80s slasher movies, Cold Prey (2006) followed five snowboarders who took refuge in an abandoned hotel that closed in 1975 when the owner’s son disappeared. Faster than you could say “Jason Voorhees”, a pickaxe-wielding psycho began chasing them through the snow..

In the tradition of Halloween II, Cold Prey: Resurrection offers “more of the same, only set in a hospital.” Having survived being stabbed with a pickaxe and thrown into a crevasse, the killer returns and once he gets his hands on some medical instruments, he goes on the rampage down the dark hospital corridors. Victims include The Rookie Cop, The Young Nurse and The Sympathetic Doctor, but at least the film comes up with an explanation for why the hospital seems deserted – like Precinct 13, it’s being shut down.

Directed by Mats Stenberg, Norway’s answer to Rick Rosenthal, Resurrection is bloodier, more violent and (if possible) more conventional than its predecessor, punctuating scenes of victims wandering around with it-was-only-a-dream false scares. Though derivative in the extreme, it’s still more fun than Rob Zombie’s Halloween II.