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Miranda used to
visit her grandmother every summer when
she was a young girl. That is until her older sister
mysteriously disappeared in the woods outside her
grandmothers cabin. Now, her grandmother is dead and
Miranda and two of her friends have come to fix the
house up a bit before they sell it. What they don't
know is that a mythical demon is roaming around in
the woods, waiting to be fed.
Levande Föda (roughly translated into Living Fodder) is a
new Swedish horror movie made for TV. Clocking in at
almost two and a half hour, this horror flick seemed
very promising by the judge of the TV-spots. I was
really excited to check this one out as it's been a
long time since I saw a good Swedish horror flick and
the channel that produced it usually produce quite
high-quality stuff. Unfortunately, Levande Föda is a
poor attempt to bring Swedish mythology into the horror
genre, and Swedish mythology isn't very exciting. The
most exciting horror myth that we have is probably the
one about "Näcken" where a naked handsome man is sitting
in various brooks playing the violin, luring beautiful
women down into the water where they then drown. This
is not what Levande Föda is about.
Instead, the movie revolves around three friends who
go to a cabin in the woods since one of the friends'
grandmother has just passed away and they're going
to fix up her cabin so that they can sell it. The
movie was divided into three parts (shown as a mini
series) on TV and the first part basically didn't
have any horror in it at all. You kind of got the
feeling that it was going to be a Swedish take on
Wolf Creek but I was sadly mistaking. In the second
part we find out that the locals are feeding a
mythical creature (which is very much alive) with
tourists and filming it all. Why? Well your guess is
as good as mine. So what is this mythical creature
anyway? Well it's not a well-known Swedish myth that's
for sure, I've heard of most of them and this creature
was just some random wolf-like monster. Nothing to get
very excited about. Unfortunately.
In the third part things finally start to happen but
unfortunately it's too little too late and in the end
you get the overall impression that you've just seen
a very bad drama thriller (and believe me, Sweden is
the number one country for mediocre drama thrillers).
Furthermore, the TV-channel that produced this didn't
seem to have much faith in it as the budget was
obviously extremely limited. It felt more like a
film students failed experiment than a high quality
horror flick. The acting is very bad and the twists
are so predictable that it's not even funny. Had they
shortened this movie down to an 80min flick (believe
me, it wouldn't have been difficult to do so), I would
probably have given it a slightly higher rating but
the fact is that I just wasted over two hours of my
life on this nonsense. For shame! It's too bad that
Sweden can't seem to get inspired by Norwegian and
Danish horror flicks as they're miles ahead of Sweden
who generally produce much more films than both of
those countries combined every year.
No, nothing worth mentioning.
Extremely annoying strings accompanied by even more
annoying choir music.
For shame Sweden! For shame! This was pathetic. Two
and a half hour of pure nonsense. I'm really disappointed
and I don't get why Sweden can't produce good horror
flicks while Denmark and Norway produce great quality
horror movies. Hopefully this will be a success so
that Sweden will get some faith in the horror genre.
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