Nightwatch (1994)
Directed by Ole Bornedal
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
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When Danish director Ole Bornedal (making his first American feature since 1998's smartly skin-crawling "Nightwatch") gets it right, his know-how of the genre, of the importance of building atmosphere and character over easy, predictable jump scares, recalls a lush, adult-minded style all but missing since the 1970s.
Writers Juliet Snowden & Stiles White ("Boogeyman," "Knowing") follow the same old template, distrusting the 'less is more' approach for sensationalism that goes far beyond anything in the lore and Danish director Ole Bornedal (" Nightwatch ," " Just Another Love Story ") compounds the issue by orchestrating with a sledgehammer.
Like so many horror movies of the past few decades, “The Possession,” directed by Ole Bornedal (“Nightwatch”), starts off well with a smooth and almost elegiac tone, quietly and slowly building tension only to disastrously crumble upon itself in the second half.
A few moments are effective, though, courtesy of the noted Danish director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch), who holds himself to clean, classical filmmaking and prefers creepiness to shocks.
Alas, Bornedal mounted the new version of Nightwatch as a scrupulous remake of the original.