The Sacrifice (1986)
Dec 3, 2003Praying Back the Nuclear Holocaust
Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, a slow and weighty meditation upon questions of faith as one man prays to turn back a nuclear holocaust
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Next Door (2005)
Sep 21, 2014Strange Apartment Neighbours/Reality Blurring
Brilliantly twisted Norwegian film in the vein of Roman Polanski's Repulsion and The Tenant about a man whose dealings with two girls living in the apartment next door starts blurring and shifting into some genuinely surreal and out there, not to mention perverse, territory
Frostbite (2006)
Aug 15, 2010Swedish Vampire Film
Swedish film about vampires at a smalltown hospital that is made with an uneven sense of black humour
Deliver Us From Evil (2009)
Dec 13, 2009Danish Backwoods Brutality Film
Danish film that is largely an uncredited remake of Straw Dogs (and a far better effort than the official remake a couple of years later). This has a dark, unrelenting bite that savagely indicts a racism at the heart of modern Denmark
Babycall (2011)
Aug 19, 2024Reality Blurring/Haunted Baby Monitor
Pål Sletaune is a Norwegian director who deserves more attention for his reality-bending surrealism. Here mother Noomi Rapace moves into new apartment where ghostly screams come through the baby monitor and she soon finds that she cannot be sure what is real
Aniara (2018)
Feb 1, 2021Spaceflight Goes Off Course
Film based on a full-length Swedish SF poem that concerns the despair, emptiness and strange societies that emerge among those aboard a spaceship that is thrown off course
Handling the Undead (2024)
Dec 8, 2024The Resurrected Dead
A film adapted from a book by the writer of Let the Right One In concerning the resurrected dead, this goes some way to divorce itself from the zombie film and develops its horrors with striking slow burn effect