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Koko-di Koko-da (2019)

Koko-di Koko-da poster
Directed by
Johannes Nyholm
Genre
drama film, horror film
Country
Denmark, Sweden
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
16
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 79 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A couple on a camping trip in the woods to repair their marriage after their daughter's death are trapped in a time loop. They are tormented by nursery rhyme characters who appear from a music box they had given their daughter. The couple must find a way to break free from the loop and confront their grief.

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What happens

Koko-di Koko-da is a 2019 Swedish-Danish surrealist dark fantasy psychological horror film directed, produced and written by Johannes Nyholm. The film tells the story of a struggling couple on a camping trip in the woods to save their marriage, after the tragic death of their daughter on her eighth birthday during a vacation in Denmark three years prior, who find themselves in a time loop of agonizing torture, humiliating slapstick, and surreal dreams at the hands of a band of antagonistic nursery rhyme characters depicted on a music box, which they had purchased for their daughter as a birthday gift prior to her death and birthday. The two have to find a way to heal their broken marriage, overcome their grief, and escape the macabre time loop of torture and murder. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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