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Director : Kjersti Helen Rasmussen
Cast : Eili Harboe, Herman Tømmeraas, Dennis Storhøi, Preben Hodneland, Gine Therese Grønner, Siri Black Ndiaye & Peter Førde
DOP : Oskar Dahlsbakken
Year : 2022
Country : Norway
Audio : Norwegian
Subtitles : EN / FR / NL
Running time : 100′
Genre(s) : horror, psycological
If A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and ROSEMARY’S BABY had a baby, it would probably look quite a bit like Mona’s sprout here, born out of the darkest nightmares…
Barely 23 and already happy owners of their own little cocoon. Congratz Mona and Robbie! OK sure, that cocoon hasn’t quite burst into a beautiful butterfly yet. In fact in its current state it’s much closer to a frizzled and faded moth on the brink of dying. The floor’s crooked, the 70’s wallpaper’s peeling off and rain pours through the ceiling. Robbie, always the youthful optimist, thinks they’ll be able to fix up the place together. Except he’s also a jolly yuppie in a tech start-up, working days and nights and weekends. So basically, Mona is on her own. Robbie also wants a child, Mona is less sure. And the older couple with the constantly screaming baby across the hall is not a very glamourous commercial for motherhood. Even less so after she sees the mother jump off the balcony a couple of days later. And then come the nightmares, frightfully real and recurring nightmares that feature Robbie. At first, he just seems a little bit more wild than usual, but he’s quickly getting darker and more threatening… with real-life consequences like stress, sleepwalking, hallucinations, self-mutilation… and a baby?
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and especially ROSEMARY’S BABY come to mind, but Kjersti Helen Rasmussen’s debut feature is very much her own child. Carried by a powerful performance by Eili Harboe (THELMA), the film digs deep into the darkest crevices of the human mind, where personal demons weave the most sinister nightmares into reality…