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Six friends are about to take their yearly trip to their vacation
house in Sweden, but when it's only two weeks left until they
leave, Christian's sister commits suicide. They decide to go
anyway but Christian isn't over his sisters death yet and when
strange things start happening around the house, he's almost
certain that it's his dead sister who's trying to contact him.
The other four manage to convince him that it's only his paranoia
that's playing mind games with him and that they should have fun
and relax when they're on their holiday so Christian decides to
invite his newfound friend Linn into the party. What he doesn't
know is that by doing that, all he did was put yet another ones
life in danger as the friends have no idea what secrets the dark
swedish forest is keeping from them.
It's almost impossible to do a horrormovie in Scandinavia without
having to bring the crew out in the forest so it's not a big
surprise that this resembles both the Norwegian horrormovie
"Villmark" and the Swedish horrormovie "The Unknown". What makes
this so special is that this was obviously made for the younger
generation since almost the entire cast consists of young and
attractive people.
Another thing this has in common with the other two movies is that
both Villmark and The Unknown had at least one Swedish actor in it,
that's the case for this movie aswell. The trailer for this movie
doesn't tell you much and you get the impression that it's more of
a drama thriller than a horrormovie, which it's not. This is a
very atmospheric and creepy to say the least horrormovie but I
think that they could have written the official plot outline and
trailer a bit better so that you really understood what
you were in for.
Carsten Myllerup decides to use a horror themed movie as his
directorial debut as a feature film director and I think he did
a smart choice. Midsummer looked very professional and Carsten
treats us with both jumps and hide-behind-the-pillow scenes.
At first I had a hard time understanding the Danish that they
spoke but after 10 minutes I didn’t even think of it, I just
had to set my mind for Danish I think as I understood almost
everything they said. It did help that a few Swedish actors were
in it though, it was a nice break for the brain. Tuva Novotny
is a very good actress and this is a perfect example of just
how good of an actress she is as she gives one of her strongest
performances ever in this movie. In fact, the entire cast was
very talented even if Kristian Leth (playing Christian) had a
hard time showing his feelings on screen.
I am very happy that Scandinavia has decided to start making
some high quality horrormovies lately and I hope that this is
just the beginning of a long row of creepy horrormovies to
come out of Scandinavia. Now I'm just waiting for Finland to
produce a horrormovie, well, and Sweden to produce a GOOD
horrormovie, but we'll see about that. Anyway, I really enjoyed
this but it wasn't quite as good as Villmark, still a really
good movie and a perfect way to kill an hour and a half.
Come to think of it I don't think there was even a drop of blood
in here. Well it's a ghost story so I didn't expect too much anyway.
While the depressing pop song that seemed to be used as a main
theme for the movie was good, it was very overused and they could
have used a wider selection of tracks. There was also some creepy
piano music, which was perfect for the atmosphere, I even thought
about pressing the mute button once because it was so suspenseful.
The second creepy horrormovie from the wild Scandinavia this
year. Looking like it's going to be a good year for horrormovies.
Occasionally it was a bit too slow but it all lived up to it in
the end. This is definitely worth a watch and you can already
buy this online from Danish DVD shops, only thing is, I don't
believe it's subtitled.
Review By: AnthroFred
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