A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
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Just perfect...
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
**Possible spoiler ahead** I had the opportunity to see this movie at a film festival last summer and I was blown away. This is so far removed from the usual teen horror stuff that is pumped out by major studios that it should never be compared to them. It was amazingly well done & reduced an entire theatre at Fantasia to tears. The acting was great & the ending heartbreaking, it is by far the best movie I've seen in way too long. In fact, I would love nothing more than to find out the DVD will be available in Canada. Definately a strong 9.5 out of 10.
Without revealing too much or nothing at all, let's just say that the theme is a big classic of the fantasy cinema but we are presented here with a completely new twist and it works so wonderfully; with no money the director chose another road and it's amazing; I saw it at the Brussels fantasy film festival and I should have congratulate the director; and to add even more pleasure to the vision of this movie , we don't have a Hollywood-feel-good-everybody is happy ending, thats so good and different!
Erik is a successful student, who one night is attacked by a gang from school. The next morning, it is like he is being invisible for everyone. He soon realizes that he is dead (I guess he watched "ghost" or something) but sticks around to find out why he was killed and whether the crime will be solved.Most of the movie after that is about the aftermath of the killing between the people involved. It's rather predictable and slow with no surprises whatsoever. I'll give it 2 out of 10.
This film was a complete surprise for me. I expected something nothing like it, rather a normal Swedish film, grey, theatrical dialogue and bad camera, but was I wrong!This film is something very new in Swedish film. It captures the very best of earlier Swedish films but adds something completely new. Not seen in films from anywhere to tell the truth. A kind of magic that sometimes is a component in real life, but seldomly is captured in films. Of coarse this film also contains a lot that is not to be found in ordinary life, at least not as clear as here...It touches something seldom seen in films, the very essence of reality and consciousness. What are we? What is reality? Are we really? And why now? For how long? And for what reasons?Some things is elegantly left out of the pictures, like questions of good and bad, love and hate. The are pictured though, but in a way that needs no further explanation. The film doesn't give any answers, only give rise to many questions...Thomas Hedengran and Tuva Novotny are doing great things in this picture. Academy award quality stuff. Gustaf Skarsgård is okay to, perfectly adequate actually, but the role does not, and should not, give space for larger performances.Highly recommended.First half better than last though.../ino