This is pretty standard ghost story fare - a haunted hospital in Copenhagen, a spiritualist breaking all the rules to figure out what’s really going on, lots of character drama that is more or less connected to the haunting - but it’s presented in a wacky Scandanavian way that makes it a little more entertaining. One of the main characters is Swedish and apparently has an incomprehensible accent when speaking Danish, which is of course lost on a simple ‘Murrican like me. Also, the subtitles are obviously British, so there’s lots of “jolly good this” and “bloody well” that, adding to the incongruity.

The best single thing though is the closing credits, in which the creater/director, Lars von Trier rehearses a series of retorts to criticisms he imagines might be leveled at his baby along with a small dose of amusing moral platitudes. He ends with warning that if you choose to keep watching the show, prepare to encounter the Good (and he makes a little sign of the cross) with the Evil (devil horns). I’ve seen it before and wonder if it’s some kind of standard European TV trope, but whatever its origin, it’s a gas!