Imagine a film that blends Gremlins with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Throw in a random cast of vaguely familiar faces, (including the wonderful Heneriette Steenrup from Viaplay’s Pernille), send them to the Norwegian mountains, and then pit them against evil … Continue reading Five things to know about ‘There’s Something in the Barn’, the fun Christmas horror set in Norway
It has been a great year so far for Nordic horror, and on the horizon is a new wave of even more exciting new Nordic horrors! Take a look here at what’s coming soon: Feed Sweden | Dir: Johannes Persson … Continue reading New Nordic horror films coming soon to add to your watchlist
Back in March everyone was getting struck down by Covid – no man was spared and that included the director of upcoming (bound to be cult classic) ‘It Hatched‘ – Elvar Gunnarsson. “It has given me some time to get … Continue reading “Not even the Icelandic Film Institute wanted to fund us – they all thought we were insane” – Director Elvar Gunnarsson on his new Icelandic cult horror ‘It Hatched’
Eskil Vogt has been a pretty busy man – almost a year since his film The Innocents debuted at Cannes Film Festival, (alongside another wonderful film that he co-wrote, The Worst Person In the World), we are finally seeing this … Continue reading Eskil Vogt speaks to Nordic Watchlist about creating his creepy childhood horror ‘The Innocents’
‘Hatching‘ is a compelling new psychological thriller and body horror film by Finnish director Hanna Bergholm with a quirky style and and even quirkier storyline. The main character, Tinja, is a adolescent gymnast who’s desperate to be perfect and please … Continue reading As dark Finnish horror ‘Hatching’ takes flight, we speak to director Hanna Bergholm about her cracking feature debut
In this special feature for Halloween, we speak to a variety of people in our Nordic Watchlist network to hear about their favourite Nordic horror movies, and we give our top picks too! Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen Director of Rift It’s … Continue reading Halloween Special: Nordic horror film favourites
A couple of months back we got chatting to Danish film director Jesper Isaksen who had been working on promoting his new psychological horror movie Victim of Love. He was due to attend a showing of the movie as part … Continue reading 5 Minute Fika: Jesper Isaksen and Siff Andersson
Having first read about Johannes Nyholm’s weird and wonderful movie Koko-Di Koko-Da in an edition of Empire Magazine earlier in the year, it became a permanent fixture on our wish-list to watch. The pandemic swooped in and screwed everything up … Continue reading Swedish star Leif Edlund talks about filming KOKO-DI KOKO-DA