Forget everything you think you know about Scandinavian cinema.
Yes, there are art-house masterpieces and Nordic noir crime dramas. But beneath the surface lies another world: haunted hospitals, revenge angels, stop-motion racing epics, bumbling master thieves, Cold War paranoia in the Arctic, package-holiday comedies, underground crime sagas, and some of the strangest cult films ever produced in Northern Europe.
In Polar Darkness, Johnny Rewind explores twenty essential cult films and television productions from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. These are the movies and shows that shaped national cultures, launched legendary careers, terrified audiences, inspired filmmakers around the world, and proved that Scandinavian cinema is far stranger and more diverse than its international reputation suggests.
