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The Kingdom... is a malarial nightmare in the guise of a medical drama, part B-movie horror, part art film, part cheesy soap. I'm not sure it adds up, or even knows where it's going. But who cares? The journey is a glorious bone-rattler of shocks and satire, bouncing us down all manner of teasing dead ends.

The choice of a quasi-documentary style heightens the unease at the paranormal goings-on and the feeling is amplified through the clever use of repetition, rapid cross-cutting and a nervy handheld camera... in a film which, despite its marathon length, is compelling enough to reel in a good-sized cult following.

Like some hellish television show from beyond the pale, The Kingdom is anything but normal. Everything about this film seems slightly surreal, slightly out of sync with reality; it's less a hospital drama than some sort of haunted amusement ride, with ingenious shocks around every corner and secrets buried a mile deep.

[T]he drama, set in a giant Copenhagen hospital nicknamed 'the kingdom,' metamorphoses from a soap opera with Gothic pretensions into a comedy of the supernatural. As events become increasingly far-fetched and the far-fetched turns ludicrous, the film never forsakes its tone of deadpan earnestness.