I very much enjoyed this film, and found it a satisfying story. At first I found the two minute epilogue with the explanation by police, confusing, and wished those minutes had been omitted. Then I watched it again, and also re-watched the opening minutes. Everything is there on screen, but you need to be able to rewind and remind yourself.
The party is being stalked before they find the woman's body, not after. Pers goes off alone to get a phone signal and is surprised by a sinister masked man in the dark.
The ill-fated German honeymoon couple had camped in the wood just a month before - not 30 years, as one reviewer says. We don't know if the woman drowned in the icy water or was killed by the gatekeeper, but the suggestion is that the gatekeeper murdered her (the photo at the end reveals him as a stalker, after all). At the end, he's shown as Losse's attacker when Losse returns to the tent to get the abandoned cigarettes
The husband has been driven mad by his wife's death, is wearing her dress, and he certainly murders Gunnar. But we don't know if it was the husband or the gatekeeper who murders Pers. Personally, I thought this ambiguity added to the story rather than detracted from it. But as I said, a person seeing this film at a cinema might find the ending frustrating; really I needed to be able to rewind and review it to get the most from the story.
7/10
The party is being stalked before they find the woman's body, not after. Pers goes off alone to get a phone signal and is surprised by a sinister masked man in the dark.
The ill-fated German honeymoon couple had camped in the wood just a month before - not 30 years, as one reviewer says. We don't know if the woman drowned in the icy water or was killed by the gatekeeper, but the suggestion is that the gatekeeper murdered her (the photo at the end reveals him as a stalker, after all). At the end, he's shown as Losse's attacker when Losse returns to the tent to get the abandoned cigarettes
The husband has been driven mad by his wife's death, is wearing her dress, and he certainly murders Gunnar. But we don't know if it was the husband or the gatekeeper who murders Pers. Personally, I thought this ambiguity added to the story rather than detracted from it. But as I said, a person seeing this film at a cinema might find the ending frustrating; really I needed to be able to rewind and review it to get the most from the story.
7/10