Thursday 4 September 2014

Försvunnen (Mattias Olsson & Henrik JP Åkesson, 2011)

A woman driving across Sweden to a new life after her brother's suicide is followed and then abducted by an off-the-shelf loon. She manages to escape and is then pursued through the woods, the directors ticking off the genre boxes dutifully from the false dawn when a stranger offers a way out, through the stranger's immediate summary execution and the heroine's unlikely resistance to having lead in her. Storywise, there is nothing in Gone beyond joining the dots and the only points of interest are the relative absence of hysterical screaming and effective use of the austere forest environment, where danger can lurk in any direction.

4/10

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