Saturday, January 16, 2021

Dead as a doornail

A freshly appointed night watchman of local morgue has plenty of customers as there's a serial killer at large in Copenhagen. Ole Bornedal's Nattevagten (1994) that spawned a Hollywood remake in 1997 (also by Ole Bordedal) is both hilarious and scary featuring future stars Kim Bodnia, Sofie Gråbøl and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Perhaps should look onto the remake as well, tho' doubt even with the cool cast of  Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette and Josh Brolin it can beat this cult classic. There's Nattevagten 2 announced as well.

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