![]() The bleak majesty of the local Icelandic countryside only adds to the atmosphere. there is something intrinsically atmospheric about 'ghost towns'. There is also the question of whether the people in the remote house are seeing things that are really there are just imagining it due to the somewhat creepy nature of the location. There are elements of a mystery as we are invited to wonder who caused the dead woman's scars and what happened to the two children. This is a solid chiller doesn't really fit into one genre. Lif, head to a remote abandoned village, where they hope to convert one of the houses into a guest house they soon start to feel that they aren't alone. In the other story a couple, Katrin and Garðar, and a friend. she was also taking an interest in his son who vanished three years previously. As the case is investigated links are found to other deaths and the disappearance of a bullied child fifty years previously. It looks like an obvious case of suicide but she has numerous crosses carved in her back suggesting abuse. In the one a psychiatrist, Freyr, is brought in when a woman is found hanged in a church. This Icelandic chiller is effectively two stories in one. Reviewed by Tweekums 8 / 10 I Remember You I did quite like the ending, though - just not as much as I had hoped - or expected. ![]() They are adequate, but don't really convey much of a sense of menace indeed their incubi cease to be curious and intriguing and start being just a bit soap-ish their undercooked characterisations start to rob the film of any potency. Sadly, I thought the acting was a bit too over-reliant on the ambience. The cinematography helps enormously, the bleak scenario adds loads to the mystery. Might the two be connected in some fashion? Both the threesome starting their business and the doctor have their demons, personal and professional and Óskar Thór Axelsson gently teases these out and interweaves them, quite intricately, into the gently spooky plot. Simultaneously, the local doctor is trying to assist the police with a mysterious death. A couple and her best pal decide to set up a B&B (not quite sure who for in this rather moonscape-like environment, but anyway.) only to discover that they think the site might be haunted. Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10 Interesting light horror.Įssentially two parallel stories that gradually morph into one, this is quite a decent drama set in rural Iceland.
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