A wonderful debut by directors Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm, Corridor would be at home in the “Alfred Hitchcok Presents” TV series. It is a suspense thriller that works right from the moment it opens until its last scene. Frank (Emil Johnsen) is a medical student who stays alone in an apartment block. When a new tenant moves in upstairs, Frank is kept awake at nights by the strange sounds from the apartment above – sounds that make him suspicious & nervous. At 80 minutes, the movie is short enough for the directors to hold the suspense.
Unexpected close-ups and fast-cuts keep the thrills coming. But their trump-card is the lead-actor: Emil Johnsen. As the nervous student on the brink of paranoia, Johnsen’s Frank is a next-door neighbor or classmate that we have seen, and thus easy to identify with. His suspicions and fears, therefore, ring true. While evoking classic Hitchcockian themes: alone everyday guy, mistaken identities, set in and mostly experienced from within a room, etc., the movie does not burden itself by trying to emulate the master or recreate his work. The stakes get higher and Frank falls deeper into the plot, until the directors deliver a fitting, though expected, climax. It would be very interesting to have the directors and the actor re-visit this Frank for another chapter of his life.
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