I came across this rather obscure title in my local library. I'm a fan of psychological horror movies and the description of The Unknown spoke to me. It's made by a couple of friends who decided to shoot a horror in a week time with a tight budget. The acting is surprisingly good and the actors used their real first names as their character names. The scenario inherits elements from its teachers: there's some Alien, some Body Snatchers and some The Thing. The sometimes shaky camera, the forest setting and the low budget approach may remind you of The Blair Witch Project, a movie that was released in the same year and sadly overshadowed this movie.My opinion? The Swedes pulled it off great. It's one of my favorites in the genre. But before you think this is the new Alien, I must say that The Unknown doesn't come close to the perfection of those classic Hollywood productions. It has certain flaws (some plot twists are textbook examples, some questions are left unanswered), but, and this is of most importance, the atmosphere is right, the tension is ever present and you can really be "in" the movie.I also recommend this to fans of blond Swedish women in red turtlenecks.

When I was going to see this movie, I had an open mind. Low budget Swedish film should have lit a warning lamp in my head, but not enough to avoid seeing it! 'Cause this is a really, really horrible movie with a plot that is sooo cheasy, you can't possibly imagine why, oh why, they got money whatsoever to make this movie. The whole story is set to the no-man-lands in Sweden where it have been a forest fire. 4 young Swedish scientists comes to this area to see what the impact in the nature have been. As they search through the area for evidences, one of the crew members find a dead thing in which they can't identify. They take it with them home, due to perform an autopsy later. When they later on do that, it turns out that this thing is something none of them have ever seen. They leave it outside, but a little bit later, they find out that it's gone. In fact, this "thing" start to infect one by one of the crew with a disease that make them go crazy, and makes them start to hunt on the others. Just as crappy as the plot, the movie is a real horrific show-off in "how to not make a movie"-genre! Mark my words, this is a movie you WANT to avoid!

I didn't have very high expectations when I started watching this movie, but it is actually a really good! Its style reminds about the Blair Witch Project, but it is not exactly the same since the scenes are not supposed to be filmed by the persons in the movie as is the case with Blair Witch.The acting is surprisingly good, and I would also say that despite the low budget the filming is excellent and effectful. Maybe I'm easily frightened, but I think this movie is at least as scary as Blair Witch.To conclude: if you enjoy horror movies that does not follow the typical hollywood style, and actually want to watch one where the focus is on building up an interesting and frightening story rather than creating cool effects, then this might be the movie for you!

This movie is in the same mould as Blair Witch Project, but this time with five Swedish people to encounter strange happenings. The director manage to create realism into the characters, how would you react? The film manage to lift itself up from mediocrity, it is so easy to compare with similar movies and discard this, but it has something going for it. I would say it is fairly well made (even though it is a low-low budget movie, filmed in only 7 days) and will give credit to the makers of this film to take the chance on this project. I watched it and found it entertaining.