WATCH: Serial killer film The Snowman looks scary as hell

Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke
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Anyone who has read Norweigan crime writer Jo Nesbø’s best-selling novel The Snowman will know it’s sleep-with-the-lights-on-after-reading kind of scary.

And now the, er, chilling serial killer tale is making its way to the big screen, with the first trailer dropping today. Check it out above!

Ah, because walking alone in a deserted carpark is gonna turn out well. Source: Universal
Ah, because walking alone in a deserted carpark is gonna turn out well. Source: Universal

The film follows troubled detective Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) as he tracks a vicious murderer targeting women around the city of Oslo.

Never has anybody been less pleased to see a snowman. Source: Universal
Never has anybody been less pleased to see a snowman. Source: Universal

Leaving a calling card of a snowman outside victims' houses, it soon transpires that he is toying with Harry and his colleague Katrine Bratt (Rebecca Ferguson), drawing them into a cat and mouse game as his killing spree escalates.

They can't show the dead body's head because the killer, er, removed it. Bye, never sleeping again! Source: Universal
They can't show the dead body's head because the killer, er, removed it. Bye, never sleeping again! Source: Universal

The trailer is full of creepy imagery, like deserted houses in the snow, Fassbender screaming, and the killer chucking snowballs at his victims before he attacks.

We'd scream too, Fassy. Source: Universal
We'd scream too, Fassy. Source: Universal

Nope, nope, nope!

We don't know what this is and we don't wanna know. Source: Universal
We don't know what this is and we don't wanna know. Source: Universal

Nesbø’s novels have sold over 30 million copies worldwide and have been tranlsated into hundreds of languages.

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Though The Snowman is the seventh book in the Harry Hole series, it was the international breakout novel for the author.

The film is released in Australia on October 19.

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