Nightwatch

Name: Nightwatch
Director: Ole Bornedal
Released: 1997

Synopsis

A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

63
TV Guide Magazine
Danish writer-director Ole Bornedal delivers up a stylish thriller whose murky, shot-through-pond-scum cinematography is its most distinctive feature.
50
Austin Chronicle
It's gritty, nasty, predictably meat-and-potatoes suspense, but genuinely gonzo fun nonetheless.
50
Chicago Reader
The filmmakers show habitual thriller viewers some respect by condensing the background story into iconic sound and image bites during the opening-credits sequence, suggesting they know we get the drill; this and the other stylish elements make it all the more disappointing that the movie's mediocre.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a visually effective and often scary film to watch, but the story is so leaky that we finally just give up.
50
Film Threat
It comes off as an amalgam of everything that was cool in 1996, when we first saw the trailer.
50
ReelViews
If not for Bornedal's stylish approach to the material and a couple of effectively chilling sequences, Nightwatch would have been a complete waste of time and effort.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
It's rough when it works and rough when it doesn't. Much of the first hour is made up of slow patches, while the last 20 minutes are ugly and terrifying.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Nightwatch is a horror for reasons that have nothing to do with suspenseful moviemaking.