No-Do or
The Haunting (2009),
directed by Elio Quiroga.
Kinda melodramatic ghost story - dark, a little too little tension, with an ominous mansion and spontaneously appearing / disappearing ghosts, slowly revealing secrets from the past... There we have some links to Catholic regime (even a neat reference to No-Do films), but again - for me it's more like a drama than a horror.
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Originally Posted by urgeok2
don't know it but i'll look for it now.
the nordic people seem to be able to marry humour to dire situations in a really organic and effective way.
I know american film and TV try to do it .. but they don't find the same mix.
There is no joy in the american way of doing it .. i cant articulate it properly...but the sense of dread is never lifted .. it's just heavy gallows humour..
in the swedish film it just felt more real. hard to explain
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Yes, I agree. It's like... sad / tragic and funny at the same time. There are many funny movies from Scandinavia, not to mention
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) based on a best-selling book by Jonas Jonasson, or
En ganske snill mann (which is
A Somewhat Gentle Man, I believe) (2010), if you like Stellan Skarsgård.
