Continuity mistake: When the main character goes to check the place where the dead bodies lie, after having seen the red light flash, the rope above the supposedly dead body is still swinging. If you keep watching it you can see that it keeps moving with the same frequency.
Nightwatch (1997)
Plot summary
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Erich Anderson, Anais Evans
A soon to graduate Law student takes a part time job as a Nightwatchman.Beliving he'll be able to sit on his ass and study with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting.
Only to find himself drawn into the mobid history of this morgue...concerning a previous troubled nightwatchman raping female corpses, could this same person behind the series of grisly serial slayings that are occuring in the city the student dwells in? Is the history really gone and forgotten? And why is the student finding himself disturbingly connected to these killings?
Somehow or other this student must turn have-ago-detective...otherwise...he'll end up in jail...or worse...become this deranged serial murderers final victim in a twisted morbid masterpiece
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More mistakes in Nightwatch
Inspector Thomas Cray: Have you ever been killed before? I'll be back in a minute.
Question: Who is the man in the picture in the office of the hospital? Is it supposed to be Nick Nolte when he was young, working as the night watchman?
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Chosen answer: It is intended as a nod to the original 1994 version of the film, which supposedly featured the same picture in the watchman's booth.
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