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‘The Home’ Review: There’s No Rest at the Rest Home in Spooky Swedish Thriller
Mattias J. Skoglund’s second feature ekes chills from the low-key, matter-of-fact treatment in its story of an elderly mother whose near-death experience provides entree to a malevolent spirit.
Joining such recent efforts as “The Taking of Deborah Logan,” “The Manor” and “The Rule of Jenny Pen” is “ The Home,” a Swedish-language chiller in which a stroke victim moves into a care facility — but not alone, as unfortunately the few moments she spent clinically “dead” enabled a malevolent spirit to return with her from “the other side.” Unlike movies where the “demon” or what-have-you emits a stream of stock blasphemies and profanities, Skoglund’s script (co-written with Mats Strandberg, who authored the source novel) hands it cruelly precise, personal comments designed to inflict maximum psychological pain. That extends to the ominous ambient score by Toti Guonason, and the way that initially cheering institutional paint schemes in Vera Theander’s production design gradually develop their own off-putting qualities in cinematographer Malin LQ’s atmospheric imagery.
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