Thale (2012)

Guess what .. again no time :) I've picked "Thale" on length criteria, because it did seem a good option at less than 90 minutes (despite the IMDb rating which seems more and more irrelevant as time goes by).

The setting: Two guys, one weirder than the other, employed by a cleaning firm have the task to clear out a cabin in the middle of the woods after the owner died. Surprise, there's still something lurking there. Or somebody ...

"Thale" is not a horror as it's labeled and the way the trailer might suggest. Yeah, well .. it might have some scenes that are more tense, but it's far from my scary movie definition ... As a reference is as much as horror as "Dreamcatcher". Only that here as aliens we have the "hulders". If you're not an expert in Scandinavian folklore check-out Wikipedia (it's the way I did).

The Norwegian movies are cold. "Trollhunter", "Hodejegerne", "Pioneer", I don't remember watching anything made in Norway that didn't have a specific coldness. It's interesting that the Swedish films are not the same. And it's not the snow. Complicated to describe. "Thale" is not an exception ... And still, this time the so cold "horror" has a key moment. When we find out why the guy weirder than the other guy is so weird. I don't know why but somehow from this results in the end the warmest cold movie I've seen shot in that country ... still a weird one :)

Rating: 3 out of 5