A very Eastern European response to the Hollywood slasher films of the 1980s, Wolf Chalet takes the requisite vacationing-teenagers-in-peril plotline and turns it into a typically Chytilovian fable of authority, repression, and morality. Here, carefree youth are in constant danger from repressive adults so foreign as to be literally out of this world. Eleven teens find themselves at an isolated ski resort, forced to do the angry bidding of a trio of mysterious autocrats who enjoy setting them against one another, preferably to the death. Encouraging the teens' constant threats to kill one another, the three seem so inhumane as to be almost unhuman. Chytilová jazzes up her Friday the 13th material with enough wild zooms, freewheeling handheld camerawork, and atonal white noise to lose all intended truths, and thereby to suggest all possible meanings.