A girl who’s been declared useless abruptly awakens—and the weirdness solely amplifies from there in Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes, a brand new Norwegian horror collection that’s arriving quickly on Netflix. Things change into much more difficult by the truth that the not-so-dead girl’s brother runs the native funeral residence—and enterprise isn’t precisely booming, for what look like some very supernatural causes. (See: the film’s subtitle.) Netflix not too long ago shared a trailer for Post Mortem, which seems like a pleasant mix of pitch-black comedy, monstrous thriller, and ample rivers of blood.

“You’re not what you think you are,” somebody tells Live Hallangen (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen) on this trailer. And we are able to’t actually inform precisely what she is—a vampire, with all these heightened senses and a thirst for the purple stuff? A zombie, contemplating she was extraordinarily useless however is abruptly alive once more? Did she inherit one thing from her mom, or is it the city itself that’s by some means prompted her resurrection? How did she “die” within the first place—and can her new, ah, state of being by some means find yourself serving to her brother hold the household enterprise afloat?

Here’s the official description from Netflix: “Live Hallangen is declared dead. Hours later she suddenly wakes up on the forensic table. A dark, insatiable hunger has awoken in her. Meanwhile, her brother Odd tries to keep the family driven funeral home afloat, but the stagnant death rate in the small Norwegian town of Skarnes makes it impossible. Live has to learn to control her new dangerous nature and decide if she is willing to sacrifice people’s lives for her own survival, which ironically goes hand in hand with the survival of the family business.”

It has some parallels to iZombie however Post Mortem seems prefer it’ll inform a enjoyable story bolstered by some supremely deadpan humor. We don’t get a ton of Norwegian horror within the states—function movies Dead Snow, Trollhunter, and Lake of Death being three latest exceptions—so it’s thrilling that Netflix is bringing extra Scandinavian style tasks to the forefront. Post Mortem is directed by Harald Zwart and Petter Holmsen (Holmsen additionally wrote the collection), and along with Thorborg Johansen, it stars Elias Holmen Sørensen, Andrée Sørum, Kim Fairchild, and extra.

Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes, which runs six episodes, arrives August 25 on Netflix.

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