The Swedish film “Shadow Island” is a tantalizing combination of mystery and horror tinged with a Swedish traitor or two. Let the NATO jets roaring overhead in the beginning of the movie and radio stories about Sweden joining NATO whet your whistle on the espionage front. At the film’s conclusion you may conclude it is a Russiaphobia movie. You will also conclude the characters are not who they initially appear to be.
David Tapper (Johan Heinstedt) leaves home for Shadow Island, a remote and seemingly deserted Swedish island, after finding a box of his late father’s work that pointed to some serious work he was doing in Shadow Island and the mystery intensifies upon David’s arrival on Shadow Island. And the romance with Sara (Hanne Mathisen Haga) blossoms. Sara is inhabiting an abandoned lighthouse off Shadow Island working on her bachelor’s psychology thesis.
The mysterious 1991 death of the lighthouse keeper and his family on Shadow Island intrigues the viewer and the mystery intensifies with the appearance of a couple of Russians. I’ll write no more other than saying “Shadow Island” like a similar 2021 U.S. Norwegian film “Arctic Void” are stellar examples of what the mystery genre of films can be. Here is my previous review of “Arctic Void” https://a-little-birdie-told-me.ca/2021/12/31/rks-film-arctic-void-devoid-of-a-thrill-but-full-of-questions/
Written and directed by Johan Storm.” Shadow Island” is now available on Digital and VOD.
RKS 2023 Film Rating 86/100.
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