It’s one of the best thrillers of all time, starring a Game of Thrones star that nobody knew at the time.

The title The Night’s Watch may ring a bell, but we’re not necessarily talking about the same movie. What we are concerned with today is a Danish thriller released in 1994 and directed by Ole Bornedal, to whom we owe another solid thriller, Just Another Love Story, made in 2007 and released in 2010 in France.

With an average rating of 3.7 out of 5, AlloCiné viewers clearly invite them to discover or rediscover the feature film from director Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known for his role as Jaime Lannister in the Game of Thrones series. Unfortunately, it is currently not available on any platform, but is available on physical media.

The story is about Martin Bells, a law student who takes a position as a night watchman at a morgue to pay his bills. Isolated, witnessing strange events during this long wait, Bells becomes the prime suspect of the local police, who suspect him of serial murder. The young man quickly realizes that in order to justify himself, he will have to unmask the killer.

A remake… and a sequel!

The critical success of The Night Watchman was such that it was remade by the director four years later, also titled The Night Watchman, starring Ewan McGregor as well as Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte and Brad Dourif. This American remake was adapted by Ole Bornedal and Steven Soderbergh, and Soderbergh is said to have been responsible for watering down the original film.

And if the original convinced you more, know that Coster-Waldau and Bornedahl have recently teamed up to make a sequel, Nattevagten – Dæmoner går i arv (2023), literally “The Night’s Watch – Demons in Legacy”. With no release date in France at the moment, it centers on Martin’s daughter Emma, ​​a medical student who takes a position as a night watchman and investigates her parents’ past. In doing so, he awakens the killer from the first film…