Tag: ghosts
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Review: Hypnagogia
Nightmares are not a new topic for horror movies, but the distantly related sleep paralysis has not been explored too much yet. In Lars-Erik Lie’s short film Hypnagogia, genres are mixed with the titular phenomenon taking center stage. Wikipedia says that “Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic […]
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Hypnagogia preview
With inspiration from Japanese ghost stories and Italian horror, Norwegian low-budget director Lars Erik Lie is now working on a horror short about sleep paralysis. Maybe he wants to give you nightmares? According to Wikipedia, hypnagogia is “the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep”. It is also the title of Lars Erik […]
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Review: Mara
Most of Sweden’s “real” horror movies are independent low-budget films, like Mara, which started production in 2009 and is now finally ready to unleash its thrills and chills on viewers. In an old Scandinavian tradition, Mara revolves around Jenny, a blonde 20-something who visits a cabin in the woods with some friends in order to […]
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Mara final DVD art
Swedish DVD label Njuta Films has released the final DVD artwork of the upcoming psychological horror chiller Mara. Nothing is as it seems in the Swedish independent feature Mara. The story takes place in the dark woods of Sweden, where little girl Jenny witnesses a brutal, gruesome murder. An utterly grotesque act committed by an insane […]
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Review: De utsatta
An abandoned hospital, the ghost of a little girl, a doctor who did cruel things. That’s the basis for this Swedish chiller, filmed at a former sanatorium. One of things you learn at film school, in order to cut costs, is to “shoot on location” so you don’t have to build sets. In this low […]
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Win signed “De utsatta” DVD
Enter our first October competition and win a signed copy of the Swedish ghost chiller De utsatta on DVD. Directed by Daniel Ström, De utsatta is about a group of people who are trapped in a derelict and abandonded hospital for the rich. A snowstorm prevents them from escaping, and then mysterious things start to […]
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Mara preview
Finally, after years of post-production delays, the Swedish horror/chiller Mara is ready for delivery. Nothing is as it seems in the Swedish independent feature Mara. Described as a low-key and creepy psychological horror chiller with supernatural elements, the story takes place in the dark woods of Sweden, where little girl Jenny witnesses a brutal, gruesome […]
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Review: Sauna
Finland is not known for a great number of things, but their sauna – hot steam baths – is an international icon and therefore not surprisingly the theme of the historical horror film, Sauna. Set in the year 1595 on the soon-to-be border between Russia and Finland, a group of lower government officials are mapping […]
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Review: The Visitors
Sweden’s most popular haunted house movie, The Visitors, is a fun family romp, full of clichés but not hard to digest. The Nordic region bloomed late in terms of genre cinema and video films (Norway got its horror wave in the 00s, and Sweden and Denmark never got it), and when they finally caved in […]
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Review: Marianne
The debut feature of director-writer Filip Tegstedt, Marianne is a solid and haunting story about nightmares, a broken family and mental pain… which may not only be in the minds of the sufferers. In the Swedish chiller Marianne, Tomas Hedengran plays Krister, a middle aged teacher and father of two daughters. His wife was killed […]