Norway's snowy interior hosts an odd little haunting in There's Something in the Barn, a 2023 horror-comedy from director Magnus Martens that treats a family relocation as the setup for a creature feature rather than a drama.
What is There's Something in the Barn about?
An American family sells up and moves back to a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway after inheriting the property, chasing a simpler, closer-to-nature life. The mountain setting they romanticized turns out to have its own resident, and the household's early days of unpacking and adjusting to rural isolation give way to something far stranger sharing the land with them. The film plays the culture-shock comedy of American newcomers fumbling through Norwegian countryside customs against a gathering sense that the barn on the property is not empty, building toward a clash between the family and whatever has been living there long before they arrived.
About the cast
Martin Starr and Amrita Acharia anchor the transplanted family at the center of the story, with Kiran Shah, Townes Bunner, and Zoe Winther-Hansen rounding out the household and the young cast members who carry much of the film's comic timing. Calle Hellevang Larsen, Henriette Steenstrup, and Jeppe Beck Laursen fill out the Norwegian side of the cast, giving the local-versus-outsider dynamic a grounded, lived-in feel rather than playing the countryside purely for laughs at the family's expense.
Context & significance
The production is a three-way collaboration between Finland, France, and Norway, and it leans on Scandinavian folklore traditions more associated with mischievous, territorial creatures than with the slasher or possession tropes that usually define English-language horror-comedy. That regional grounding, paired with a broad comic sensibility aimed at an international audience, is part of what makes the film play differently from the American cabin-in-the-woods films it superficially resembles.
Watching There's Something in the Barn on Ktime
There's Something in the Barn streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the Persian dub and Persian subtitles are both available, so viewers can watch it fully in Farsi or with the original English audio and Farsi text on screen. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it straightforward for the Iranian diaspora audience to find and queue titles like this one alongside the rest of the horror-comedy catalogue.