Körkarlen (1921)

AKA: The Phantom Carriage

Film details

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Year1921
CountrySweden
GenreFantasy
TypeMovie
Runtime100m
CastVictor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander, Lisa Lundholm, Tor Weijden, Einar Axelsson, Olof ås, Nils Aréhn

Review

"The Phantom Carriage from Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was originally released way back in 1920 and has long been revered as a classic example of early supernatural cinema. Said to have been an early inspiration for Ingmar Bergman, the film is a haunting tale based around a legend that the last person to die on New Year's Eve is fated to become the spectral driver of the titular cart, travelling the land for a year and collecting the souls of the newly departed... Far more than mere music, the score throbs and whispers, flowing eerily and menacingly throughout, complementing the images and bringing them to sinister life. No longer slow, the action takes on an almost hypnotic quality." - James Mudge, Beyondhollywood

Ranking history

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