Bag det stille ydre (2005)

A young couple and their daughter move into an old house hanted by spirits.

Director:

Martin Schmidt

Writer:

Dennis Jürgensen (screenplay)

Stars:

Anne Birgitte Lind, Jakob Cedergren, Rebecca Løgstrup

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anne Birgitte Lind	...	Signe
Jakob Cedergren	...	Tommy
Rebecca Løgstrup	...	Bianca
Dejan Cukic	...	David
Andrea Vagn Jensen	...	Marianne
Lykke Sand	...	Sara (as Lykke Sand Michelsen)
Zlatko Buric	...	Drago
Thure Lindhardt	...	Charlie
Jens Okking	...	Politibetjent
Morten Suurballe	...	Anders Svendsen
Jan Hertz	...	Ejendomsmægler
Laura Christensen	...	Jane
Pelle Kastrup	...	Oliver
Albert Bendix	...	Hans Nielsen
Ole Drost	...	Olav

Storyline

When Signe and her workaholic husband Tommy visit a house for sale in Glamstrup, they immediately like it and a couple of days later they buy it. They move with their daughter Bianca and befriend their neighbors Marianne and her husband David that live on the other side of the street. While Tommy is working, Signe notes that weird things happen in the living room, with a black cat appearing, the fireplace firing alone and fruits getting rotten while Bianca plays and talks to her imaginary friend Oliver. Further, she discovers that the siblings Jane and Oliver died three years ago in a fire in another neighborhood in Glamstrup. She decides to call the medium Anders Svendsen to solve the mystery and he communicates with the spirits of the dead that are trapped in the spot and he tries to guide them to another world. When Marianne offers a job to Signe, she hires the teenager nanny Sarah that flirts with David. Meanwhile Tommy travels to Aalborg and meets the structural engineer that ...

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Plot Keywords:

fireplace | supernatural | sacrifice | research | psychology | 

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Danish

Release Date:

27 May 2005 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Almas Penadas

Box Office

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wise Guy Productions, Scanbox Entertainment, Zentropa Entertainments

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the opening scene, all the fire was real. The director and the other crew visited a fire technical station in Helsingør, and received the help of some firemen to make the scene look more realistic, setting fire to additional things.

User Reviews

Great horror movie - Dennis Jurgensen is a genius!

Again Jurgensen shows his genius. The critics will probably not like this movie but it is because they have no sense of humour and don't understand the horror genre. In fact, this is a brilliant horror movie far, far better than recent Hollywood "horror" and on the level of recent Japanese and South-East Asian horror (such as The Eye, The Ring, Dark Water, etc.) Jurgensen is a genius and in this movie he is at the height of his powers. Him and Martin Schmidt clearly knows their stuff. They know the genre in and out and demonstrate how to make a horror movie with integrity and excitement. The dialogue is amazing, for example the one between David and Sarah: "Hvad laver du i din fritid?" "Jeg rider", etc. This is just so funny and brilliant. I don't know what people's problem is when the rate movies like this so low. It must simply be ignorance towards the fundamentals of the horror genre. Let me tell you folks: Horror does not get any better than this! Take it or leave it!