Jennifer Despite the many bad reviews about this movie, I found it really good.Sara was a convincing acted character who gets herself involved in a rather deep mystery while researching the murder of three students some 100 years before. Eerily, while she is researching this the more recent suicide of a female student becomes entangled in the mystery.I thought that all the actors did a good job and the camera work and music was fantastic. I was sitting on the edge of my seat right to the end - I just had to know what happened! I would recommend this for anyone who is not into a lot of blood and gore but wants to watch a movie because it has a good plot and script.

insomniac_rod Oh come on, this movie ain't bad at all. In fact, it's a slasher flick with an interesting plot, very good acting, a decent score, excellent cinematography, and good direction. Now, where could you find a slasher flick with those characteristics? This one is far better than most American slashers. It has some clichès but it's not as cynical as, for example, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer", or "Scream". The main plot situation is believed to be the revenge of the drowning ghost but the main problem really is that someone is taking his identity for unknown reasons. Who is behind the murders? What does Rebecca's suicide have to do with the whole situation? Watch "Drowning Ghost" and witness that it isn't what it looks. It's more than just a simple slasher.I must admit that the best feature about the movie is the acting. Rebecka Hemse (Sara) delivers a solid performance. She's firm, brave, intelligent, and beautiful. That's my kind of woman! This girl seriously needs more important roles, she has the talents. The rest of the cats also deliver a good performance and do not make fools out of themselves like in many American slashers. Also, the visuals are great. The cinematography really helps to create the movie's atmosphere. This Swedish exteriors are great. "Drowning Ghost" may not be the best slasher film recently but it's a decent ghost story with slasher tones. I would recommend it for people who are not into violence or gore but still enjoy the slasher formula. This movie will keep you interested for it's plot, beautiful lead character, and some situations that are common in the life of a student.

gothic_a666 From time to time, one cannot fail to run into bitter disappointments that shake one's faith in all sacred things such as trust, hope, and, in this case, good film-making. Excuse me this rant, but from my earlier experience with this director (Mikael Håfström), I was led to expect a remarkable movie experience: perhaps not necessarily anything as brilliant and insightful as Ondskan, but still something out of ordinary, original and tactful, as European movies aspire to be.All my expectations were flawed, however, completely destroyed and torn to little shreds of contempt. It seems to the movie deliberately sabotaged itself, opting to follow a by now more than exhausted trend of the America-Teen-Slasher which feels ill at ease in a Swedish setting and, in this adaption of what was not a praise-worthy effort to begin it, fail to follow the thriller-by-number with any amount of narrative coherent or scenic competence.The plot is formulaic: a predictable ensemble of characters set in a prestigious college (the building itself having a great potential for being a new Overlook, but, alas, it is completely wasted in this movie) wrapped up with a "mysterious" murder committed a hundred years ago, a pseudo paranormal demonstration, a suicide and an investigation undertaken by the said characters which, by the way, are nothing but one dimensional personality traits, not even stressed enough to be called clichés, one could say they are underdeveloped ideas.Of course, plot twists abound, none of them strike as fresh or even as surprising. Half-ways through, the movie takes a turn and tries to explore some psychological drama, which makes the final work even more flawed and utterly clueless.*****Mild Spoilers*****It should be stressed that nothing rings original in this mess. The ending is so reminiscent of Friday the 13th that it is nothing short of uncanny, a previous scene is a watered down version of something straight out of Seven, and I am quite sure the list could go on.Lovers of gore be warned, this movie has none. It is, however, peopled with silly to borderline intelligent characters who believe that staring and trying to reason with an armed murderer is quite a plausible excuse to get themselves killed.I truly hope that Mikael Håfström will find his way back to brilliance and quit this emulation of American cinema at its worst.

Be Nice This is the first or at least one of the first "teen hack" productions from Sweden.I've seen a lot of the usual teen hack Hollywood productions such as "Scream" one to three. It is not my favorite kind of genre, I admit to that. The Hollywood productions mostly seems to handle this type of genre well enough. The scripting of these movies are quite good, the acting is often good and the movie elements are quite often timed well enough to create a fairly intense and scary atmosphere. So here we are with the first Swedish production of a teen hack movie.How did it fare you wonder? As you might expect, quite bad, I believe anyways. The story is average, early planting a myth of a ghostly killer on a path of revenge. The acting is quite good actually with a lot of the Swedish young "elite" in the acting ensemble. They perform well I think so a big + to them. The "planting" (the element you plant early in a scene to make the viewer slightly aware that something is awry thereby increasing the tension in the movie and later reap the benefits by creating a scary finish) is terrible. *SPOILER* The first example of this is when a student early in the movie talks to the porter of the school wanting his cell -phone and some stuff from the basement. The student heads down the basement... The killer of the movie now grabs the keys to the basement door. Unnecessary... You already know that this kid is "gonna get it". This kind of planting is not needed at all. And examples like this seems to be "haunting" this movie all the way through. Anyways... Sweden's got a bobsleigh team...