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Nightwatch
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1hr 44min
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1994
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Anchor Bay
Synopsis: The debut feature from Danish director Ole Bornedal, Nattevagten is a psychological thriller starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. While a serial killer is on the loose, brutally murdering several prostitutes, college-student Martin (Coster-Waldau) takes a job as the night watchman at the local mortuary in order to pay his law-school tuition. As it turns out, the bodies of the victims are being stored at that very mortuary. When Martin takes a bet that involves tampering with the bodies, he suddenly finds ... Full Synopsis
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Nightwatch may remind viewers of George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988), in the sense that both are stylish European horror/thrillers that the same director was hired to remake as a Hollywood studio picture, with vastly inferior results. It's easy to see why Ewan McGregor was chosen to play Nikolaj Waldau's role in the American version, since the two could be brothers, if it weren't for the fact that ... Full Review
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