Mara had been drawn to the Hollow on a night much like this by a woman who had once been a friend. Lena was why Mara still carried an old brass key on a length of chain—an odd thing for someone who slept under a five-foot radiator, but then Mara had never been young for long. Lena said the key opened a door that led to the city’s true heart. Lena said the city was sick and that the root cause slept below the Hollow. Lena said, a half smile and lined knuckles and smell of cheap gin, that when you saw it you couldn’t unsee it.
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023) is the long-awaited Danish sequel to the 1994 cult classic Nightwatch ( Nattevagten ), which famously launched the career of actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Directed by the original filmmaker Ole Bornedal, the film explores the terrifying concept of intergenerational trauma wrapped in a psychological slasher-thriller. The story picks up 30 years after the original events: Mara had been drawn to the Hollow on