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The kingdom 2

Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

At the Kingdom hospital, everything is as it was - and nothing is. Consultant neurosurgeon Stig Helmer has returned from Haiti, he faces prosecution for his unsuccessful operation on poor little brain-damaged Mona. If that weren't enough, he is afflicted by hypochondriac trepidation. Eternal patient Mrs Drusse is mortally wounded by an ambulance and sets off on her journey into the unknown. But she is forced to turn back in order to deal with mysterious goings-on at the Kingdom, where spirits and demons do battle...

Cinematic intelligence sources

NB: Danish language dialogue with English language subtitles

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Bloody hell! Those wacky Danes!

While Denmark's only gifts to the world have been Kronenberg and legal pornography, you have to wonder why Shakespeare set Hamlet in that rotten state. Perhaps they're so in-bred that weird goings-on and general Satan worshipping are all in a day's work.

The kingdom 2 was mostly understandable even though I haven't seen part 1. It's a two-part five-hour journey through soap opera hospital hell. It's as black as the ace of spades, as funny as Friday the 13th and as addictive as The days of our bold and restless lives. Think Eraserhead meets ER then add a couple of psychic differently-abled dishwashers.

Like any good piss-take, this film takes the piss out of soaps while using the same tricks of the trade to lure you in. Before you know it you'll be laughing at the Swedish and all their greatest accomplishments (ABBA, Ikea, Volvo - the list just goes on and on and on...), checking the toilet for floaters or sinkers, and definitely not going to hospital.

The kingdom 2 is a must-see for young, arty-wanky filmgoers (like me), old people who are no longer young but still go to arty-wanky films, and people who get off on serious weird shit.

Security censorship classification

MA 15+ (Adult themes, horror themes)

Not for public release in Australia before date

28 January 1999 - 10 February 1999