Nightwatch (1994)

Director
Ole Bornedal

Main cast
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; Kim Bodnia; Rikke Louise Andersson; Ulf Pilgaard; Lotte Andersen

Genres
Horror, Thriller

Description
Nightwatch (original title: Nattevagten) is a 1994 Danish horror thriller film directed and written by Danish director Ole Bornedal. It is a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes.


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