Ole Bornedal's American re-do of his own Danish thriller about a necrophiliac serial killer and the hapless morgue attendant who falls under suspicion. In this, Bornedal is following the route of the Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer and The Vanishing, except that as the Bornedal original went uncirculated in America, the remake escapes comparison. It retains a foreign, a European, a Teutonic, a Kafka-esque flavor, for all its conventionality. ("It's just like one of those movies on the USA network," the hero himself points out. ) It isn't bad -- measured, sinister, spooky, unsettling -- but one would hate to think that the self-plagiarizing filmmaker could never imagine doing better. Steven Soderbergh worked on the script. Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Alix Koromzay, John C. Reilly, Brad Dourif, Lonny Chapman. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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