Starring:    Michael Niqvist, Naomi Repace

Directed:    Neils Arden Oplev

Based on the first of the best selling trilogy by Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a Silence Of The Lambs for a new generation.

40 years after a young 16 yr old vanishes from a family party without a trace, an eager and up and coming journalist Mikael Blomqvist is contacted by her uncle and sets out to seek the truth about what happened the young girl.

Dredging through the family’s history, Blomqvist uncovers a shocking truth that shakes everyone and a horrible picture starts to emerge as to what happened the young girl.

Although the book is far more graphic, this is still a nightmarish film that will test you right up to the end.  Let’s hope that Sweden continues its trend of brilliant movies after Let The Right One In and this current offering.

We might have a new Hollywood in our midst.

5/5