Between the Lynchian antagonists and creepy children’s song, Nyholm creates an atmosphere that feels like you are trapped in the Grimmest of fairy tales.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 19, 2021

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.

| Jan 28, 2021

A frequently tedious, frustrating brew.

| Original Score: 36/100 | Dec 29, 2020

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.

| Dec 3, 2020

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.

| Nov 13, 2020

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

| Original Score: 8.9/10 | Nov 10, 2020

[It] fast becomes tedious and unpleasant without being actually disturbing...

| Nov 10, 2020

Swedish writer-director Johannes Nyholm doesn't quite wow with surprises, but displays darkly impressive personal touches as he takes his characters through the terror wringer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2020

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

| Nov 7, 2020

Koko-Di Koko-Da isn't entirely satisfying but it keeps us off guard and may make viewers think twice about pitching tents in isolated forests.

| Nov 6, 2020

I didn't love the film -- among other things, I'd have preferred more reaction from the central characters than variations on blind terror -- but I appreciated it as a clever allegory for grief and mourning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2020

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...

| Nov 6, 2020

[An] entire exercise in arty scab-picking.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 6, 2020

Johannes Nyholm follows up his masterful debut, 2016's The Giant, with this often inexplicable yet increasingly captivating endeavor...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 6, 2020

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.

| Nov 5, 2020

For all of its dreadful aspects involving torture, murder, and degradation, [writer/director Johannes] Nyholm's nightmarish Koko-di Koko-da never terrifies so much as instills wave after wave of endless discomfort.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

In Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da, repetition becomes a nightmare for one family stuck in a scenario of grief and turmoil.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2020

A surreal tale about dealing with grief and handling guilt. Mixes hints of child like storytelling with stark violence to get across its message.

| Nov 3, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 1, 2020