Summary
A law student takes a job as night watchman in a morgue, but instead of just picking up some extra cash and quiet study time, he ends up under suspicion for murder and necrophilia. He must avoid arrest and find the real killer before it's too late, but who can he trust?
Warning! Spoilers ahead!
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Barbara's Rant
This is really more of a hipster detective story, but I'll count it as horror since (a) it's pretty bloody and (b) I watched it. Unfortunately, detective stories don't really do it for me. The law student is played by Ewan McGregor, which I guess is a plus for some people. As you might guess from my unenthusiastic tone, he doesn't really do it for me, either. Although he's a dream come true compared with his idiot "bad-boy" best friend.
The problem I have with thrillers is that the killer's clever plot is almost always full of gaping holes. We're supposed to believe that Ewan is being brilliantly and carefully positioned to take the fall for the murders, and I'll admit that he ends up looking awfully suspicious. But a lot of that is due to his friend daring him to visit a hooker, and then playing a prank at his work that made him look like an idiot, neither of which was controlled by the killer. I guess we're supposed to understand that the killer was watching him and took advantage of the whole hooker situation, but what would he have done if Ewan had told his buddy to get bent and just gone home to sleep with his girlfriend? Without that bit of luck, the killer wouldn't have any physical evidence to connect him with the hooker. Also, I can accept that the killer could have disappeared after he was caught romancing the corpses since they declined to press charges. However, it's beyond stupid for him to work at a very public job right next to the very same morgue. The entire staff still remembers him, and it's again just dumb luck that nobody recognized him.
Of course, the morgue staff doesn't win any prized for swift thinking, either. After they go through all the trouble of covering up for Mr. Necrophilia, they continue to require their security guards to enter the every night on their rounds. Why not set it up like the dissection room, which he didn't have a key to, and just checked through the window? There's absolutely no point in making him walk all the way across the room.
But then, it never occurred our law student hero that maybe a lawyer would be a good step, seeing as how he's under suspicion for murder and all, so really they all deserve each other.
See what I mean about thrillers? I always get bogged down with the plot holes, and then I'm too annoyed to properly enjoy the climactic final confrontation. Maybe the Danish version is more fun.
BARBARA MAY
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