the subtle Scandinavian horror cinema

Walking Dead‘. It moves away from the gore trail of zombie films to present a more realistic story, or as realistic as can be in this highly successful variant of horror films. The movie, debut by Norwegian Thea Hvinstendahl, it is elegant, disturbing and terrifying. It combines well the slow creation of an atmosphere with moments of epidermal horror.

The director takes her time to expose the conflicts. She suggests from strange elements (a fan falling from the ceiling, the car radio that turns on by itself, a general blackout) until drawing the dramatic landscape in which a series of people come back to life. The story focuses both on them and their families. How to accept, between joy and fear, the return of those loved ones who were dead?

‘Rest in Peace’ adds to the strength of Scandinavian fantasy cinema. The film adapts a novel by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist (responsible for ‘Let me in’ and ‘Border’) and also features the protagonist couple of ‘The worst person in the world’, which It wasn’t fantastic cinema, but it was a fantastic film.