Nightwatch (1997)
Directed by Ole Bornedal
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
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The Danish thriller Just Another Love Story, directed by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch), has a style like play-school Ingmar Bergman.
The Danish thriller Just Another Love Story, directed by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch), has a style like play-school Ingmar Bergman.
With Funny Games, an update of his 1997 German film of the same name, Michael Haneke joins the shortlist of foreign directors who have remade their own movies for Hollywood, a group that includes George Sluizer (The Vanishing), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge) and Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch).
Screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White ("Knowing") and director Ole Bornedal ("Nightwatch") save Tzadok's flashy exorcism setpiece for the film's climax, leaving the majority of the screen time to alternate between the tepid scares generated by Em's antics and the thinly sketched drama of Clyde and Stephanie's broken marriage.
Directed by Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal (1997's "Nightwatch") and produced by Sam Raimi , "The Possession" offers a few small-scale scares, but it's not quite clear if the Brenek family is Jewish, so the idea of belief and true faith is never part of the equation.
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.
Danish director Ole Bornedal, who previously directed a horror classic called Nightwatch (as well as its poorer American remake), uses sound to brilliant effect and also clamps down on gore, focusing instead on scary stuff.
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There are single moments in The Two Towers of unadulterated power that suck us in, as when Saruman’s (Christopher Lee: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Sleepy Hollow) toady Gríma Wormtongue (Brad Dourif: Nightwatch) is stunned by the impossibly grand designs of his master.
Alas, Bornedal mounted the new version of Nightwatch as a scrupulous remake of the original.