The first draft of "Frostbiten" was finished in 1998. Ander Banke and Magnus Paulsson had been trying to make a Swedish horror film for years but with little success, until a script by Daniel Ojanlatva was sent to them about vampires showing up in Norrland. Daniel Ojanlatva had grown up in Kiruna and thought it was just right to add vampires. Originally the film was set to be a "Pulp Fiction"-style movie with several stories and characters who went in and out of them. It was going to be called "Something Wicked this Way Comes". Pidde Andersson joined the crew and did some work on the dialog and suggested the new title "Frostbiten". The movie was mostly shot in Kalix in the winter of 2005 and the board scenes were shot in the Ystad Studios. Anthony Lledo, who had worked with Anders Banke before, was selected to write the score. The producers drew inspiration from vampire films such as "The Lost Boys", "Fright Night", "The Fearless Vampire Killers" and Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste".