This is unexpected but exciting news -- a sequel to
the 1994 Danish classic horror flick Nightwatch is happening, with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
reprising the role that proved to be his big breakout. Well, sort of -- most people would say that it wasn't until
Game of Thrones that he broke out and they'd technically be correct, but it was
Nightwatch in my eyes because I saw it (and more specifically
his jaw-dropping nude scene) and I paid attention to him from there on out! And then a couple of years later
he played tongue-hockey with Clive Owen in
Bent and I was fully lost. Anyway if you've never seen the original
Nightwatch it's absolutely ace -- far better than the 1997 remake with Ewan McGregor.
This 30-year-later sequel is called
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever and is from the same director as the original, Ole Bornedal. And the sequel co-stars Bornedal's own daughter Fanny Leander Bornedal, who's playing Nikolaj's daughter and which sees her sucked into the same nightmare that plagued her pops three decades earlier. That said it's been awhile since I watched
Nightwatch so I'll refrain from sharing more details, mainly because I don't want to read any more of the press release before re-watching the original myself. Thankfully both movies are dropping thanks to Shudder on May 17th. When we get a trailer I will share it but for now just enjoy
looking at Nikolaj in 1994, truly a special-effect of a human being:
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