Tag: slasher
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Review: Insane
In the 90s, director Anders Jacobsson made one of the most culty of all Swedish cult films. His most recent horror film, the low budget Insane, attempts to bring back the terror of the slashers of the 80s. As part of the Swedish independent movie scene, director Anders Jacobsson har built a certain reputation largely […]
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Evil Ed and Insane special editions
Director Anders Jacobsson is currently working on several projects, among them expanded versions of the cult-classic horror comedy Evil Ed and this year’s Insane. Nordic Fantasy spoke to director Anders Jacobsson who informed us that two movies are undergoing expansion treatment right now; first is the 3-disc version of Insane, which originally was released in […]
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Behind the scenes of Tuddal
A cabin in the woods, urban youth on holiday, a local redneck driller killer… That’s Tuddal for you, the Norwegian zero budget torture slasher that was as much a learning experience as it was a film project. Meet the minds behind Tuddal in this exclusive interview. Tuddal is a slasher, splatter and serial killer film […]
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Harpoon to debut on US DVD in December
Iceland’s first horror film, aptly titled Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, debuts on DVD in the US in December, and will also be made available in many other countries. Movies become unique when they are grown from local conditions, and what is more Icelandic than whales and whale hunting? Maybe vikings, but they don’t exist anymore. […]
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Review: Tuddal
Originally planned as a short film but expanded into a feature-length horror / splatter film, Tuddal is yet another story about young urban people who are brutally killed in the woods. This zero budget indie offers some innovative and gruesome ways to die. Truly independent movies arebecoming more and more common as filming and distribution […]
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Insane hits DVD
Swedish direct-to-video slasher Insane becomes available on DVD on October 31, 2010, Halloween night. The movie is directed by Anders Jacobsson, who previously made the cult classic Evil Ed. This time Jacobsson has not made a splatter comedy, but a dark story cooked together with other people from the Swedish horror scene, with a classic […]
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Review: Cold Prey
This 2007 slasher film was not Norway’s first entry to the genre but it was the first Norwegian horror movie that actually spawned sequels. Directed by Roar Uthaug, who in the 80s made one of the first splatter shorts in Norway, it tells the story of a group of 20-something friends who seek refuge at […]
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Cold Prey 3 preview
Norway’s first prequel movie ever, Cold Prey 3 (Fritt Vilt 3) opens October 15th, 2010 in Norway. It follows Cold Prey (2006) and Cold Prey 2 (2008) which were very popular movies in Norway. The new story is set in the mountain area of Jotunheimen in 1986. Norway has in the first decade of the […]