‘The Home’ Review: There’s No Rest at the Rest Home in Spooky Swedish Thriller

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Dennis Harvey Film Critic As populations’ median ages continue to rise — and the future looks increasingly hazardous for allage groups — more movies are touching on senility, dementia, elder abuse and other topics that not long ago rarely got any screen airing.

That includes the horror genre, which has typically been focused on terrorizing nubile youth. Joining such recent efforts as “The Taking of Deborah Logan,” “The Manor” and “The Rule of Jenny Pen” is “The Home,” a Swedish-language chiller in which a stroke victim moves into a care facility — but not alone, as unfortunately the few moments she spent clinically “dead” enabled a malevolent spirit to return with her from “the other side.” This SXSW Midnighter premiere is likely to attract remake offers, though the heightened jump scares and violence they’ll likely pile on would only dilute what makes Mattias J.

Skoglund’s sophomore feature so effective. Its eerily quiet approach to a fantastical story casts a spell of greater potency than many bigger, louder “possession” tales stocked with frightful effects and other hyperbolic elements.

Less is definitely more in this modestly scaled, unsettlingly matter-of-fact creepshow. Small-town pensioner Monika (Anki Liden) is puttering around her kitchen when she falls to the ground, out of camera range, and while physically incapacitated can be heard shouting “No!