Svenska rysaren “Marianne” landar i veckan på DVD-hyllorna. Vi har träffat regissören Filip Tegstedt. Han har blivit hyllad på filmfestivaler för sin senaste film “Marianne”. Filip Tegstedt besökte skräckfilmsfestivalen i Alingsås förra helgen där hans film...

The following interview was my personal favourite from this year’s event. Tegstedt explains Swedish folklore, informs us of his wide range of influences and shares a very personal story of how a late night made-for-TV horror film, seen at age seven, would come back into his life decades...

MR. H:  When scoring “Marianne”…did you go into the project with any specific ideas in mind? Or did the filmmakers tell you what they wanted specifically, and you then laid down the music? Mikel:  It was a combination of Filips ideas and my own that melted down into a...

MR. H:  Tell us about your character Sandra in the movie. What role does she play in this supernatural tale? Sandra:  Sandra is the doubter. The character is important in that way, that you may see the story from two different angles. She is a teenage girl, her father doesn’t care for...

Today we have an exclusive interview with the Swedish Director Filip Tegstedt. His movie, “Marianne” is one that we would like to see more often. The kind of horror movie that do not use CGI but the camera to grow fear in the audience. Click to read the entire...

Besides „Let the right one in“ and „Hour of the Wolf”, how many more or less straight-forward horror films from Sweden will you be able to name?  None? Probably. The home country of Bergman and Strindberg is famous for a sinister view on the human condition and hence should be...