Vicious (2019)

Four teenage girls get snowed in at a remote cottage. When one of them disappears, their friendship is at stake and deeply buried secrets are laid bare.

High school friends Kim, Abby, Feline and newcomer Pippa agree to spend the last few days before their final exams at a remote cottage in the Ardennes. What was meant to be fun girls’ weekend soon turns into a living hell. After a party with three guys from a nearby cottage, Feline disappears into thin air. Due to the heavy snowfall the girls are trapped with no phone signal. Someone appears to be after them and the atmosphere grows more and more sinister. Do the girls know everything there is to know about one another? How much viciousness can a friendship sustain?

Vicious is based on a bestselling book by the award-winning Dutch author Mel Wallis De Vries and is adapted for screen by Alexandra Penrhyn Lowe and directed by one of the most successful directors of the Netherlands, Dennis Bots. Bots has a successful track record of making family and coming of age movies with a wide appeal, among which many have been selected and awarded at major festivals such as TIFF Kids, Giffoni, Buster, BUFF and Cinekid.