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Trust me! This is one of the best swedish movie you can find and it has everything

This film is not like other Swedish movies in the genre. It's a dark, psychological thriller with slices of horror.

When I first saw the trailer for Svart Lucia I thought it was a teenage slasher movie but it sure isn't! The characters that is supposed to be high school students feels more like adults. They are affected by poor home environments and the alienation that every person that have lived in a bigger city have felt.

This, together with the dark Swedish winter season builds up tension and chills. Not through knives and blood but by good acting by non-established actors and nice, cold environments.

Yes, I'm proud that this film is Swedish. It's stylish, it's nerve-racking and chilling and, above all, it's challenging. Not many swedes liked it - not many know about it. They should, though, because this film is one of the finest Sweden has to offer.

There is an edge to it that remains absent in many other thrillers - the tip-toeing around insanity. Most other films go head-on with insanity and crash into it - but this film never really reach it. Chilling, indeed.

Some great shots and fine performance makes this a very good film. Not truly great, but near it.

I found Svart Lucia absolutely wonderful. It has been one of my favorite films since my teens and it still holds despite being made in -92.

The plot is surely important but hardly incredibly unique, what is worth noting in this movie is the use of lights, shadows, sounds, props, actors...everything (including the score) is blended in such perfect harmony it surpasses a low budget thriller and turn into a piece of art. The casting is great, perhaps because I know all the characters since ten years, especially Tova Magnusson in the lead role and Björn Kjellman as the weird excentric boy.

Give it a chance, preferably with candles lit and a glass of wine/cup of tea in your hand.

This movie was an inspiration to me in a time of strugle when I was young an had some personal mental issues. I could identify with the story of impossible love an the feeling of beeing trapped in your own personal nightmare you cannot communicate even to the people close to you. Thank you for making this movie at a time in my life when it Was most needed. Jesper

Sweden, normally known for another type of film(in a stereotypical way) has produced a fine film in the form of Svart Lucia.

Stylish photography, a haunting score and a memorable twenty something cast all make this a compelling treat.

I also genuinely believe that this is the movie that Scream was based on, due to the numerous similarities. Check it out. You might be surprised.

Great acting. Great photography. So early 90's... but that's nothing negative, it's just a fact, but it's fun. Yeah, it's great, it got to me - but the ending is somehow... I don't know what I expected, but maybe it was too... black. But it wasn't. I just... would have wanted more. For it to go on, for more to be said and done.