Mord in Der Mittsommernacht

I caught a screening of this movie at the Gothenburg Film Festival, and I was pleasantly surprised.

I hadn't seen any trailers or anything and didn't know what to expect, except that it was a danish teen-movie. It turned out to be a rather scary little movie, avoiding the worst clichés (although it is nothing new, it twists and turns (except maybe for the ending) and never gets predictable or boring) and it's got beautiful photo and very good music (Carpark North) and sound.

I think the actors did a great job all over - but I can't guarantee anything since that may have something to do with me don't speaking danish... :o)

I would certainly recommend to see it in a theatre with 800 other people screamin' out loud as I did...

It says here this was filmed in Gustavsfors in Värmland but this is actually wrong. It was filmen in Gustavsfors Dalsland (Västra Götaland).

Loved it but not for everyone. The constant electric awkward tension, the brutal lagom, the choreography, dark humour, the set design and artwork, the handclap from literally outerspace, the people doing wtf in the background literally all the time... others will surely let it go right over their heads. If you're down, its has so much to take in it is rich in detail but you need to have the right glasses. The weak points are the supporting American roles but that's ok.

I have just come back from the cinema, where there was a first premiere on Midsommer.

Before the movie I thought that this would be one of the bad teenage horror movies. The trailer gave me the impression that I would expect something like a Friday 13th without the splatter effects. That wasn't what I got.

There was a lot of scary effects, and they worked very well. Thumbs up for the sound editing, as you could hear they had been working a lot on it. The plot was kind of straight forward from what you would expect in a teen horror. In the first scene one of the kids kills herself, and over the movie you try to figure out why.

Where the movie lagged was specially in the ending. It seems that they tried to copy Scream too much in a way. Through the film there haven't been any action scenes, but in the end it all goes too much action, and the plot reveals itself too fast. Also, some of the young actors could have had more experience, but they had chosen a nice lead with Kristian Leth and also Tuva Novotny who plays the mysterious Swede are doing a great job.

All in all not a movie you would remember in some years, but very much entertaining. Should be seen in the cinema, so you don't lose too much of the sound quality and loudness.

Is Kristian Leth the greatest actor I have ever seen? Most probably - he puts people like Alan Rickman, Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner to shame!

The script stinks however, but amazingly Leth holds it all together - such is his brilliance. It certainly won't be too long until someone like Tarantino or Woo snaps this guy up.

Overall I'd give the film 8.9/10. Without Leth it probably would only receive 3.