Category: Other news
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Upcoming Nordic genre festivals
Want to get out in the physical world and talk to real people? Or get a pic taken with a cult actor? Here are the events for you! Most (all?) horror and fantasy film festivals in the Nordic region for the next few moths. Denmark: Faces in the Dark A new genre festival that takes place […]
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Get yourself a goregasm!
In Sweden a group of horror film aficionados have joined forces to write and publish a horror film fanzine on paper (gasp!). Nordic Fantasy spoke to the chief editor. In the 90s, yours truly was a paper fanzine editor. At the same time, I also worked for radio stations, the ephemeral media of its time. […]
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The 1980s massacre video
Violence and gore is not only present in Nordic genre movies; the Norwegian indiepop band The Fjords has incorporated gratuitous violence in the music video for their song All in. Directed by Line Klungseth Johansen and Øystein Moe, the promotional film shows how a young video gamer shoots people at a hot dog stand. Influenced […]
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Horror in Copenhagen
Want to watch recent Scandinavian horror cinema and meet the directors? If you are in Denmark this fall, that can be arranged. Huset (literally The House) in Copenhagen is a large culture and arts centre which hosts around 1400 events each year, on 10 different stages. One of these events is Recent Nordic Cinema, a […]
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Movie Battle winners
On April 20th, the annual Movie Battle was held in Copenhagen, as part of the CPH PIX film festival. The theme for the short films this year was “slasher”. Founded by film director Shaky Gonzaléz in 2004, the Movie Battle is CPH PIX’s section where Denmark’s underground film making scene tests their muscles in genre […]
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MOF wants you!
The Swedish film festival Monsters of Film invites all genre film makers to submit their films for possible screening at the festival. For the fourth consequtive year, the horror, sci-fi and fantasy film festival Monsters of Film in Stockholm, Sweden will delight genre audiences with film screenings, meetings, panels, workshops and business events. A new […]
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More money for horror
Nordic genre movies are not only met with greater success these days, but also gaining more formal support, as NFTF’s new funding scheme is evidence of. The last few years, the organization Nordic Genre Invasion (backed by various producers and production companies) has promoted horror and fantasy films in industry environments. And now, for the […]
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Dark Woods relaunched
In a rare move, Norway’s first real horror film, Dark Woods, is being relaunched on all relevant formats, to warm up for the sequel that is coming later this year. It says something about a country that their first mainstream horror movie came out as late as in 2003. Dark Woods (original title; Villmark) was […]
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Pippi to be “cleaned-up”
One of the most beloved franchises in Sweden, Pippi, is being upgraded by SVT and audiences all over Scandinavia are outraged. Created in the early 1940s by world famous author Astrid Lindgren as a comforting tale for her sick daughter, and published for the first time in 1945, Pippi Longstocking is one of the most […]
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Eight autumn festivals
Want to get out in the physical world and talk to real people? Or get a pic taken with a cult actor? Or you just want to shed some blood? Here are the events for you! An incomplete overview of horror film festivals in the Nordic region for the autumn 2014 season. Denmark: Blood Drive […]