From “Carrie” to “Stranger Things,” young women with burgeoning supernatural powers are a formidable (and metaphor-laden) sci-fi sisterhood.

The latest entry in the group is “Thelma,” in which a timid college freshman (Eili Harboe) finds that her strict Christian upbringing clashes with her desire for fellow student Anja (Kaya Wilkins). Not so coincidentally, she’s also starting to have debilitating seizures, with dangerous reverberations in the world around her.

With its gray skies, moody ambience and ominous orchestral score, “Thelma” fits the cliché about Scandinavian entertainment being dark as hell — in the best way. It’s also gorgeous.

Director Joachim Trier (“Louder Than Bombs”) connects Thelma’s emerging powers to the natural world — flocks of birds, in particular — and sets a chilling psychological showdown in the windswept Norwegian countryside. It’s everything “The Snowman,” that other recent Oslo-set noir, was not.