Nightwatch (1994)

Original title

Nattevagten

Directed by

Ole Bornedal

Genre

horror film, thriller film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

16

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 328 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A student takes a job as a night watchman at a forensic institute. He must walk past where the dead are kept while police investigate murders of women in the city. Strange things start happening during his rounds.

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What happens

Nightwatch (Danish: Nattevagten) is a 1994 Danish horror film written and directed by Ole Bornedal. The film involves Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who gets a student job as night watchman at the Forensic Medicine Institute. When making his rounds he finds he must go to where the deceased people are kept. At the same time, a series of murders occur among women in Copenhagen, while mysterious and unexplained things happen in the medical department. Nightwatch was a success in Denmark and was shown at the Fantafestival in 1995. An English-language remake of the film was released in 1997, and a sequel in 2023; both were also directed by Bornedal. The original Nightwatch was included on a list of the top 100 Danish films as chosen by Kosmorama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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