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The Visitors
Frank, Sara and their two children have recently moved into the house of their dreams on the countryside. Frank is disturbed by mysterious sounds and somebody tears down the wallpaper from the walls. He contacts a ghost-hunter, Allan, to find out the truth.
Release : | 1988 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | MVM Entertainment, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Kjell Bergqvist Lena Endre Johannes Brost |
Genre : | Horror |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Please don't spend money on this.
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Frank (Begqvist) is an ad executive from New York who buys a new house and Sweden and moves his family there. While fixing up the house, strange things begin to happen. While trying to hang wallpaper that keeps falling off the wall, Frank sees footprints in the attic that lead to a locked door. He's sure he is hearing voices on the other side of the door but his wife Sarah (Endre) looks at him like he is crazy. Frustrated, Frank calls in a ghost expert that also runs an occult magazine to help him investigate. The two talk endlessly about haunting's and ghosts but we never see a thing. Sarah gets so annoyed with her crazy drinking husband she leaves him. Frank is stuck with the kids and the implied ghosts. Sarah has a nightmare that makes her run back to her family in time for Frank's final showdown with the ghosts. The problem is what Ghosts? The movie speaks of ghosts it's entire running time, and is on the verge of something happening the entire film and it delivers nothing! 'The Visitors' is flat out boring. With no ghosts, suspense, atmosphere, or chills of any kind this film is completely forgettable. There isn't even any cheap gore spilled, but the American dubbing could be an all time low. The last thing the world needed was a bad boring Swedish haunted house film and that is exactly what this lifeless turkey is.
This Swedish movie is the scariest that ever been watched by my eyes. It is not a patriot thing from me as a Swede, no i am totally honest in my opinion. The Americans tried with "Amityville horror" and "The haunting" but they fall so flat in comparison. Here we have scary camerawork, creepy locations and some good acting from the people involved. Fascinating how soundeffects can be so scary and it has never worked as good as in this movie. Find this movie and you will be aware of a pure horror experience.
This movie is one of my favorites. It doesn't rely on special effects, it doesn't rely on big name actors, at least not by U.S. standards. It doesn't rely on great dubbing, in fact it is quite bad. So what does this movie offer... a scary plot, the movie is slow and cerebral, but very scary. Pacific Heights scary. The main character has to solve a mystery about the house that they just moved into. The movie offers up just enough to keep the guesswork, wallpaper that won't stick, mysterious figures in the windows, a quite entertaining film, which is what this is, a film, not a movie, excellent, I voted a ten...
I remember watching this movie once back in 1992, back then I thought it was amazing (somehow), upon seeing it again I realize that it has a bunch of elements that really stand out, and is worthy of attention. Don't take me wrong, I'm pretty cynic when it comes to Swedish movies, the only one I've ever liked so far is "Mannen Pa Taket" and "Noll Tolerans", however this has nothing to do with any action paced scenarios, but more the realism in it, unlike the ungraspable Hollywood-movies. It all starts out with a series of events in the families new house in a town outskirt, where everything for a start seems to be quite alright (with a couple of flaws of course), then for some reason they start to notice that something is happening to the house, the tapestries start to fall off in one of the rooms, in another nothing 'feels' right, and then it all gets creepier and creepier. I can't say that this movie is very particular in comparison to the great, I just think that this is a missed out movie, may it not be the Swedish quintessence, but a good portion of essence (at least).