my-tv-is-dead: Månguden (1988)

enough said

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates : Werner Herzog
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents : Orson Welles
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything : Andy Warhol
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that : Oliver Stone
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema : Serge Daney
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake : Alfred Hitchcock
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are : Robert Bresson
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls : Ingmar Bergman
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance : FrantOis Truffaut
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl : Jean-Luc Godard

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Månguden (1988)

John Vinge is a lonely cop who tries to discover the mysterious killer slaughtering families out at the Swedish forests.

The killer is wearing an African mask, the mask of Moon God.

He tries to confuse police's research while sending them a video with his actions.

John is forced to collaborate with doctor Erland but he doesn't like him at all.

John's father, en ex cop who is not satisfied with John's work and he always yelling on him. He is ill into the hospital and has a secret relationship with the doctor.

John is trying to find more details inviting a museum and asking for help a specialist in African culture and civilization. But the woman working there has a strange guy as an assistant who is looking for the same thing, the mask of Moon god.

Who is the killer and who keeps terrifying secrets about the past?

This cult Swedish film was lost for almost twenty years and this is the reason I couldn't find any trailer.

But it's a cool gem blending Giallo movies genre with slasher and mystery.

2 comments:

Ninja DixonJanuary 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Wow, you've seen this rare movie? Cool. Many in Sweden saw it when they was very young and it scared us to death in 1988. Nowadays not so scary, but a good movie.
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RebusJanuary 24, 2011 at 1:42 PM
I loved it and it took me 2 months to download it but it is so good...it's more into mystery than thriller...I think Swedish movies of the 80s really rocked! and I saw also 'Mannen from Mallorca'...another one that was really cool..especially the scene with the crazy witness..surrealistic situation beyond reality!
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