Tag: mythology
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Review: Border
Nordic mythology is rich, old and popular but has only served as foundation for Nordic fantasy movies to a limited extent. Border is the Swedish arthouse fantasy that takes troll mythology to another level. And that is not surprising, since the book that the film is based on was written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author […]
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Huldra preview
The next Scandinavian mythology based movie is the Swedish Huldra: Lady of the forest, based on the same creature as seen in Thale. From director Ove Valeskog comes Huldra: Lady of the forest, a Swedish psychological fantasy thriller set the forests of Northern Sweden. The film is produced independently by Tribespider, Valeskog’s audio-video production company. […]
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Utburd preview
Premiering today in Trondheim, Norway, is Utburd, a low budget student film based on myths about children left in the woods to die. But is it really just a myth? Made by nine film students at NTNU (the university of science and technology in Trondheim), Utburd is the first full-length feature film made in Norway […]
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Thale around the world
This small but unique Norwegian fantasy film has made the festival circuit but still have some territories to conquer. In the US, Thale was screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March and will be getting a US release on March 1, 2013 by XLrator Media. “Thale is a haunting and atmospheric thriller […]
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Review: Thale
Apart from offering a number of puns related to the film’s title, Thale is perhaps this year’s most original and unusual fantasy film. The first wave of Norwegian horror films, in the early and mid 00s, were copies of American slashers. I guess that is how you introduce a new genre to local audiences; by […]
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A tale of a tail – Thale explained
A tale of a tail hanging on Thale. Meet the Norwegian hulder, the forest creature in Thale, by way of director Aleksander Nordaas in this interview exclusive to Nordic Fantasy. Norwegian fantasy films can probably be counted on the hand of a lumberjack who experienced a chainsaw accident and lost a few fingers, but now […]
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Review: The Troll Hunter
Tourists who visit Norway will be very familiar with the thousands of troll figures on display in souvenir shops. Nice, cosy, cute, creatures of fairy tales. All a lie, of course. Trolls are real. Trolls are evil. Trolls are lethal. And the Norwegian government are directing a massive cover-up to hide their existence from the […]
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Rare Exports preview
This winter’s most anticipated Christmas film comes from Finland and director Jalmari Helander. In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! Christmas has long and solid traditions in the Nordic region; it predates Christianity in the form […]
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Review: Tilbury
This very rare Icelandic spooky horror movie is about a creature native to Icelandic folklore, the tilberi. A shocking surprise to many viewers when it first aired, Tilbury is one of the best films made within horror and dark fantasy in the Nordic region in the 1980s. In the 1980s, Icelandic director Vidar Vikingsson made […]
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Review: Gnomes and Trolls – The Secret Chamber
3D animation is dominated by a few American studios, but is not exclusive to Hollywood. In Sweden, a small studio has created 3D animated features based on Nordic legends of gnomes and trolls. USA has space aliens and medical experiments gone wrong. Central Europe has Dracula and Frankenstein. Japan has ghosts. Northern Europe has gnomes […]