Nightwatch: demons are forever articles
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever movie review (2024)
Even when Bornedal grasps at big, character-driven emotions, he’s better at upsetting our loaded expectations than at providing closure or any thoughtful kind of emotional follow-through.
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever review: Horror sequel dredges up old wounds
Sequels may be commonplace throughout this summer’s release slate (an evergreen statement), but Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever is probably the least expected. It’s been 30 years since Ole Bornedal’s mortuary thriller kickstarted Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s career, which the Danish continuation acknowledges. Bornedal analyzes trauma as a hereditary infection, much like David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy (for example). It’s hardly revolutionary—grief-laden storytelling permeates the horror...
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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever review – Danish morgue sequel returns from the dead
Ole Bornedal follows up his 90s suspense thriller Nightwatch and goes back to the same creepy buildingThirty years ago, just before the Dogme 95 movement raised the profile of Danish film-making, Ole Bornedal’s suspense thriller Nightwatch was what success for the country’s cinema looked like. Basically a modest but moderately clever genre exercise, it starred a young chiselled-cheeked Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, later cast as Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones, as a student called Martin who gets a...