The term “sweded” comes from a reference made in the movie “Be Kind Rewind”, starring Jack Black and Mos Def.

Quick premise - Jack Black is a nuclear activist, Mos Def a failing VHS rental store clerk. Jack is electrocuted at a power plant during an attempted sabotage, is asked to watch over the store one day, his magnetized body (from the accident) erases all the VHS tapes in the store - ridiculous, but it’s the set up for the rest of the movie - they both decide to remake each movie they lost on their own using their own video camera, and cheap special effects. They call the process “sweding”, touting the movies as having come from Sweden as an excuse for higher rental fees and longer wait times. Hence the term “sweding”, or “sweded” is born.

There have been some pretty good sweded movies around the internet lately, including a great sweded Star Wars, but my favorite is the sweded Tron above. I love how they used the original soundtrack from the movie and implemented it perfectly into their own sweded version. Genius. Here’s a movie clip of the original lightcycle scene from original Tron film.