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Using an effectively creepy setting and a beguilingly evasive approach, Koko-Di Koko-Da takes a chilling look at the long tail of grief. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A case of food poisoning derails a family's holiday and forever alters the course of their lives. Years later, the couple go camping again, looking for one last chance to go back to the way things used to be. But what once was is lost, and they instead find themselves having to relive the same nightmarish events, as that day and the horrors it brings repeat themselves infinitely. Together, they must overcome their trauma, reconcile with the past and fight for their lives -- over and over again.

Genre:

horror, comedy
Original Language:

Swedish
Director:

Johannes Nyholm
Producer:

Johannes Nyholm
Writer:

Johannes Nyholm
Release Date (Theaters):

Nov 6, 2020 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 8, 2020
Runtime:

1h 26m
Production Co:

Beofilm, Film i Väst

Cast & Crew

Peter Belli
Mog

Leif Edlund
Tobias

Ylva Gallon
Elin

Katarina Jakobson
Maja

Morad Baloo Khatchadorian
Sampo

Johannes Nyholm
Director

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Critic Reviews for Koko-di Koko-da

All Critics (61) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (12)

It's metaphorical, vague but also precise in its specificity for the horrific trials these people are to face - their personal hell.

November 7, 2020 | Full Review…

Michael Ordoña
Los Angeles Times
Nyholm shrewdly avoids providing concrete answers about the nature of this time-loop scenario, instead plunging deeper and deeper into recurring panoramas of suffering and hopelessness...

November 6, 2020 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
[An] entire exercise in arty scab-picking.

November 6, 2020 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Glenn Kenny
RogerEbert.com
Though at times tasteless and barely coherent, the story is oddly affecting, the very strangeness of Nyholm's folkloric vision and its unnerving execution pulling you in.

November 5, 2020 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Nothing hinders surrealism more than the sense that its creators are actively working for it, though Koko-di Koko-da is nonetheless difficult to dismiss.

November 1, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine
A Twilight Zone of grief.

September 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
Koko-di Koko-da takes a stab at creating a twisted modern fairy tale about grief, but detracts from that side of the story with crude humor that doesn't land.

March 19, 2021 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…

Molly Henery
The Blogging Banshee
Writer-director Johannes Nyholm focuses his energy on setting the tone and mood that highlights the couple's despair and forces us as the audience to try to solve the riddle he lays out.

January 28, 2021 | Full Review…

Candice McMillan
Seattle Refined
A frequently tedious, frustrating brew.

December 29, 2020 | Rating: 36/100 | Full Review…

Pat Padua
Spectrum Culture
To describe this as an acquired taste would do it a great disservice. Koko-di, Koko-da isn't impenetrable, you just have to get on its own particular wavelength to appreciate the film's anti-beauty.

December 3, 2020 | Full Review…

Joey Keogh
Wicked Horror
A good horror film isn't easy to watch, but it should leave you with some feeling of satisfaction by the time the end credits roll. But with Koko-di Koko-da, I only feel empty.

November 13, 2020 | Full Review…

Lee Jutton
Film Inquiry
Koko-di Koko-da feels like a macabre amusement park ride, appropriate given Mog's outfit choice.

November 10, 2020 | Rating: 8.9/10 | Full Review…

Andy Crump
Paste Magazine

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Audience Reviews for Koko-di Koko-da

Apr 08, 2021

An old-school Swedish grief-parable and pretty baleful. I'm not sure I'd recommend it; it's not as clever or emotionally moving as it thinks it is but it is grim. Couple grieving for their dead child are subjected to a cycle of weird torments by a group of surrealist fairy-tale psychopaths in a wood. It's not as horrible as 'Funny Games' or 'Antichrist' by far but it shares a similar dreary, circular ambience. Cool shadow-puppet sequence in the middle. Cw for several dead dogs.

Charles M Super Reviewer
Jan 01, 2021

This is what David Lynch's nightmares must be like -- a groundhog day of despair and depravity. There is one scene -- only one freaking scene -- that is absolutely gripping and terrifying to anybody that has had a child. And the rest is just art-for-for art's sake with little effort to connect the dots.

Mark B Super Reviewer