Lake of the Dead

Plot

The film takes place 20–23 August 1958. Crime Author Bernhard Borge and his wife Sonja, psychoanalyst Kai Bugge, magazine editor Gabriel Mørk, lawyer Harald Gran and his fiancée Liljan Werner are six Oslo people who will visit Bjørn Werner (Liljan brother) in his cabin deep in the Østerdal forests. But, when the guests arrive, Werner is missing and his dog is found dead at a pond nearby. It's not long before they begin to ponder the old legend that is associated with the place: a man is said to have killed his sister and her lover and then drowned himself in the lake. It is said that everyone who stays in the house—the murder's cabin—would be possessed by a strange attraction: They would be forced to drown themselves in the pond. The company decides to solve the mystery, but soon it appears that they are exposed to the mysterious, fascinating powers that are tied to the lake.

Cast

Production

The movie is based on the 1942 novel by the same name, written by André Bjerke, the movie is shot all Black-and-white.

Reception

Lake of the Dead was nominated as the fourth-best film of all time in Norway in a test developed by Dagbladet in 1998, were 101 movie critics gave Norwegian movies points. Lake of the Dead is in strong competition with Villmark for the title of the best Norwegian horror movie of all time. Both movies take place by a lake. A DVD was released October 14, 2009, with an English subtitled feature. Before that, the movie was hardly known outside of Norway.