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Prey (2007)
Decent animal attack movie..
Judging from the reviews here, I didn't expect much so I was somewhat pleasantly surprised. In a cold winter evening in Sweden it can be pretty nice to see a movie set in the beautiful South African landscape. The story is not much to say about. It's basically "Cujo" but with lions instead of a St Bernard Dog. By far not a great movie, but a pretty entertaining and exciting 90 minutes. Seen to the budget the movie looks pretty good. The acting is also OK, but it could have been a better movie if the script would have been more believable. But that is often the case with this type of movies and it didn't bother me that much.
Ils (2006)
It was actually scary!!
I thought this movie was great! I really enjoy horror movies but it's not too often I actually get scared, but this one worked for me. The story is pretty simple and you've seen it before (Some innocent people living in a remote location gets terrorized by evil people), but what made it so great was the direction and the actors. It's a very well-made and well-acted movie! The french couple were also very likable, so you could really feel for them when the nightmare began. Simply put: They didn't deserve it! And the question hanging in the air all to the end is why? And yes! We do get an satisfying explanation. Can't complain about much really. It was short (77 minutes) but effective. The only reason i don't give it a ten is that you only give ten to classics. It's a great little movie, but probably not a classic.
Frostbiten (2006)
Well-made but terrible script
This horror-comedy about vampires in a northern Swedish town has it's qualitys. It has a nice look and the music is also good. Unfortunately the script is pretty bad and the actors even worse. The movie starts off pretty good with a background-story set in Ukraine during world war 2. Scandinavian SS-soldiers are being attacked by vampires while taking shelter in a cottage. When the story after that moves to Sweden today it's just plain silly. Neither the humour or the horror works. But I must say i was pretty impressed with the look of the movie. Swedish movies usually looks like crap but this didn't. Maybe the makers of this movie can make something really good if they have a decent script next time.
Kraftverk 3714 (2005)
Bizarre low budget
Well I must say that this is one of the most bizarre Swedish movies ever made. The budget is very low but it's still a very interesting and pretty well-made movie.
Johanna is returning to her hometown, only to find out that things have changed in a bizarre manner. People are behaving strangely, people are disappearing and so on. Everything that happens seems to be connected to the old power-plant by the river. The movie is not really a horror movie but more of a surrealist art-movie with horror-elements. It has a lot in common with the work of people like David Lynch. On the downside it's a bit long with it's 136 minutes and the low budget is sometimes a bit too apparent in picture and sound-quality. The direction, cinematography and editing is however great. It would be really interesting to see what these guys could do if they had a more normal budget.
Not to be missed if you're into low budget experimental cult-movies!
Crash (2004)
Good but not perfect.
I must say that I'm a bit surprised by so many people and critics giving this movie such rave reviews. Although it's a good movie it has some major flaws in the script and in it's characters. First of all it's hard to believe that so many coincidental events and meetings ever could occur in such a big city as LA. It's as if the message of the movie (Everyone is a racist and a jerk, but even racists and jerks have good sides and people who seem to be good and who are not prejudice can do terrible things and so on..) was more important than making the movie and it's characters believable. Then I find it a bit annoying with all the comments about race in the movie. Some of the dialog about the race-issue is for me as a swede hard to find believable.
The good thing with the movie is that it's a good story. I did care about the people and wanted to know what would happen with them. The direction is very good and so is the acting.
Not a major disappointment but a small one.