Nightwatch
1998
While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. The film is long on style, with solid technical execution of the requisite alone-with-corpses scenes. NIGHTWATCH is Danish .. Read more
| Starring | Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte |
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| Director | Ole Bornedal |
| Genres | Drama |
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Nightwatch
While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. The film is long on style, with solid technical execution of the requisite alone-with-corpses scenes. NIGHTWATCH is Danish director Ole Bornedal's English-language remake of his own 1994 thriller NATTEVAGTEN.
| Starring | Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Lauren Graham, Lonny Chapman, Brad Dourif, John C. Reilly, Alix Koromzay |
|---|---|
| Director | Ole Bornedal |
| Studio | WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Jun 2006 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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This is yet another attempt to remake a successful European horror film for the American market that hits the skids. Just as Dutch film-maker George Sluizer ruined his own film The Vanishing in Hollywood, so director Ole Bornedal takes his original 1994 Danish terror masterpiece Nattevagten — about a rookie morgue night watchman suspected of being a serial killer — and replaces the scary tension with formula gruesome shocks. The artful blend of hairy humour and creepy horror that graced the original doesn't quite survive in this good-looking poor relation, and both Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette sleepwalk through their familiar roles. But Ewan McGregor acquits himself well, despite a wavering accent.
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Although it retains its original director, this American remake of a Danish thriller has lost the creepiness that made it memorable.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Boring
It's supposed to be creepy and make you jump. It doesn't, unless you're 14 or younger. Ewan is a bit hit and miss, this is definitely a miss.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Interesting
My friend recommended this to me as being really scary. That I would have to disagree with. Though it is very watchable but nothing new and not really suprising. Ewan does play his role quite well as do the rest of the cast. Worth watching once but I wouldn't buy it.
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While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. ... -