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After his rise to fame as one of the stars of Shaun of the Dead over two decades ago, Nick Frost has debuted an all-new horror comedy film. He is the writer of the new film Get Away, in which he also stars.

Get Away is set to make its debut on the streaming platform Shudder on Jan. 10, 2025. This follows the movie premiering at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, last fall. Penned by Frost, Get Away was directed by Steffen Haars. Other stars of the film include Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, and Maisie Ayres. The film follows a family on vacation on a remote Swedish island when they discover that there's a serial killer on the prowl, and the trailer can be watched below.

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A bloody, brilliant blast that's easily one of my favorite films of the year, Get Away pays homage to folk horror while cleverly subverting the genre at the same time, all while delivering the gory goods every step of the way. Written by Nick Frost (who also stars in the film) and directed by Steffen Haars, Get Away follows a delightfully dysfunctional family on a vacation to an isolated Swedish island where the locals are preparing for an ancient festival and have their unsettling sights set on the island's new tourists as the unwanted guests of honor.

With Get Away now in theaters via IFC Films and Shudder, Daily Dead recently had the pleasure of talking with writer/star Nick Frost and star Aisling Bea about their killer new horror comedy, including exploring family dynamics, filming in Finland, and keeping viewers on their toes while having a bloody good time.

In the horror comedy Get Away, an Anglo-Irish family go on vacation to Svälta, a place that sounds ideal for horror: a small Swedish island where in the 19th century a supposed pandemic caused a prolonged quarantine, death, famine, and cannibalism. Despite the classic warnings, the family takes a ferry to Svälta with the idea of ​​attending the upcoming Karantän, a festivity connected to what happened 200 years ago. Once in Svälta, the protagonists meet a terribly hostile commune (led by Anitta Suikkari's character) and their Airbnb host (Eero Milonoff), who soon enough emanates a creepy vibe. The Nick Frost-penned, Steffen Haars-directed Get Away offers a constant dose of humor, plays with horror tropes, and evokes...

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A bloody, brilliant blast that's easily one of my favorite films of the year, Get Away pays homage to folk horror while cleverly subverting the genre at the same time, all while delivering the gory goods every step of the way. Written by Nick Frost (who also stars in the film) and directed by Steffen Haars, Get Away follows a delightfully dysfunctional family on a vacation to an isolated Swedish island where the locals are preparing for an ancient festival and have their unsettling sights set on the island's new tourists as the unwanted guests of honor.

With IFC Films and Shudder preparing to take viewers on one hell of a vacation when Get Away opens in theaters beginning December 6th, Daily Dead recently had the pleasure of talking with Steffen Haars and co-stars Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres about their new film, including balancing horror with comedy, embracing the movie's intriguing twists,...

A familiar premise initially unfolds in Get Away, a collaborative effort realized by Dutch director Steffen Haars alongside writer, producer, and star Nick Frost. In short, Anglophones travel to Sweden with the hopes of enmeshing themselves in a reclusive commune and observing one of their secret rituals. Whether or not...

Nick Frost returns to horror comedy with Get Away, and while the film does not match Shaun of the Dead's hectic and hilarious energy, it has its moments. Frost found incredible success working alongside his frequent collaborator and friend, Simon Pegg. Together, the pair starred in the Cornetto Trilogy, an iconic set of comedy films that bend the rules of the genre. Now that he's breaking out on his own for a while, Frost continues to deliver solid comedy in a quirky folk horror setting with Get Away, a film he also wrote.

A family’s vacation to a remote island turns into a nightmare when they discover a serial killer is targeting them. Combining dark humor with chilling suspense, the show explores the family’s desperate struggle for survival as they attempt to outwit their relentless pursuer.

Director Steffen HaarsRelease Date December 6, 2024Writers Nick FrostCast Anitta Suikkari, Ville Virtanen,...

There's a strong current of folk horror titles about outsiders entering isolated, weird communities and succumbing to their horrors. Think The Wicker Man, Midsommar, Apostle, The Third Day, Wake Wood, The Lair of the White Worm, The Ritual, Dagon, Population 436, Offseason, and so on. In many ways, the subgenre feels like a post-colonialist response to the centuries of Christian imperialism that subjugated small pagan communities, especially considering many of these horror films came from the UK, the former kingpins of imperialism. In these films and shows, the occult rural communities get their revenge on the more 'sophisticated' Christian outsiders from the big city. The new film Get Away exists in this canon, but wickedly plays with its structure and themes.

The film is written by and stars Nick Frost, pairing him yet again with filmmaker Steffen Haars; they made an almost complementary film around the same time, the batsh*t wild Krazy House.

"I feel like we are being watched..." Sky Cinema has posted their official UK trailer for the upcoming release of a horror comedy film titled Get Away from director Steffen Haars. It premiered at Fantastic Fest and Sitges and will also open in the US in December as well as in the UK from January. A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer. But who exactly is it? The Smith family arrives on a tiny Swedish island called Svälta where they get into all kinds of trouble. Fantastic Fest adds: "Fueled with dark humor, mean jokes, and outrageous scenes, Get Away will mislead you all the way to an unexpected, twisted ending. So come on board and enjoy the trip to Svälta!" Starring Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, and Eero Milonoff.

Nick Frost writes and stars in the horror comedy Get Away. Here’s the trailer for the film once known as Svalta.

Nick Frost both writes and stars in the folk horror comedy Get Away – a movie originally going by the name Svalta. The synopsis reads as follows:

Looking forward to a vacation on the small Swedish island of Svälta, the Smith family is unsettled by the unfriendly mainlanders who advise them to avoid the island at all costs, especially during the Karantan festival. But the 4-member family is in deep need of some time away & stubbornly decides to take the ferry anyway. On the island, the locals are rather rude & unwelcoming, and their behavior suggests that some big event is about to happen. Is it a cult? Is there a sacrifice in the works? Seemingly unbothered by so much discourtesy and drama, the family enjoys a swim in the sea,...

Stars: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, Eero Milonoff | Written by Nick Frost | Directed by Steffen Haars

Nick Frost scripts and stars in this holiday-gone-wrong comedy-horror, directed by Steffen Haars (New Kids Turbo). Originally known as Svalta, Get Away has a jet-black sense of humour and a fun sting in its tail.

Get Away begins with a British family – dad Richard (Frost), Irish mum Susan (Aisling Bea) and late-teen kids Sam (Sebastian Croft) and Jessie (Maisie Ayres) – driving through the Swedish countryside, on their way to a holiday they’ve booked on a remote island. Along the way, they are repeatedly warned that visiting the island is a terrible idea, not least because of less-than-friendly locals and an annual celebration they will be performing that revolves around the island’s bloody history, in which the British played a grisly part.

Sure enough, the family are immediately made to feel unwelcome,...

Azrael takes place after the Rapture, where humanity's devout survivors have taken a vow of silence. Quiet subservience is assured by cutting vocal cords and leaving a crucifix-shaped scar. But another terrifying remnant stalks the wilderness and demands to be fed through bloody sacrifice. The film falls prey to a few clunky genre tropes. It hurdles those barriers with slick cinematography, brutal violence, and a fierce lead performance. Samara Weaving continues to prove her mettle as a horror and action badass in a visceral thriller with biblical themes.

Hunting a Woman in the Woods

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Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman, Azrael, who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil that resides deep within the surrounding wilderness yet she will stop at nothing to ensure her own survival.

This review of Azrael was originally published during the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

Azrael, the latest horror starring scream queen Samara Weaving, hails from the minds of director E.L. Katz and screenwriter Simon Barrett. The movie follows a relatively simple premise: a young woman is hunted by a frightening cult and demonic creatures in a post-rapture world. Their sinister plan for her is unclear, but one thing's for sure she will survive at any cost.

Azrael

Director E.L. KatzRelease Date September 27, 2024Writers Simon BarrettCast Sonia Roszczuk, Sebastian Bull Sarning, Phong Giang, Lucie Jan, Karen Bengo, Johhan Rosenberg, Katariina Unt, Peter Christoffersen, Vic Carmen Sonne, Eero Milonoff, Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-JarrettRating RRuntime 85 MinutesGenres Action, Horror

The premise is one that many horror fans will recognize, as it's the basis of many classic horror films. The Rapture and its consequences have been a playground for science fiction and horror creatives for some time now,...

Nick Frost is taking it back to his horror comedy roots in the new trailer for his upcoming film, Get Away. Leaving the world of zombies behind and stepping into a supernatural and slasher vibe, the movie follows Frost as a husband and father who takes his family on a getaway to a desolate Swedish island that may have a serial killer stalking its residents. Helmed by Steffen Haars, the feature-length production is the latest to come from one of the founding members of the uber-popular Dutch comedy group known as New Kids. Joining Frost in the films leading cast and putting the ho-ho back in horror is a lineup that includes Aisling Bea (This Way Up), Sebastian Croft (How to Date Billy Walsh), Maisie Ayres (Criminal Record) and Eero Milonoff (Four Little Adults).

"Coming here was a big mistake for you." IFC Films & Shudder have revealed the first official trailer for a wacky new horror comedy called Get Away, which just premiered at Fantastic Fest to some rave reviews. The film is written by Nick Frost and directed by the Dutch horror comedy filmmaker Steffen Haars (of New Kids and one half of Krazy House). A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer. But who exactly is it? The Smith family arrives on a tiny Swedish island called Svälta where they get into all kinds of trouble. Fantastic Fest adds: "Fueled with dark humor, mean jokes, and outrageous scenes, Get Away will mislead you all the way to an unexpected, twisted ending. So come on board and enjoy the trip to Svälta!" Yes this sounds like a fun one!

Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) is best known for his collaborations with friend and co-star Simon Pegg, but recently, he’s been trying to make a name for himself as a solo act. The horror-comedy Get Away proves that Frost has the juice it takes to carry a film, even if the script (which he also wrote) is a bit underdeveloped.

Get Away Review

Get Away follows a family whose idyllic vacation to the Swedish island of Svalta becomes a nightmare when they are met with hostility from the local residents and a psychopathic killer on the loose. Frost’s script certainly deserves points for being unpredictable and not following the beaten path, but his ambitious swings don’t always pay off in a rewarding way.

The first hour of Get Away feels like a comedic riff of the folk horror genre, with classics and cult classics like The Wicker Man...

Samara Weaving returns to the horror movie genre in 2024, and there are multiple options for where to watch Azrael in a short amount of time. After making a name for herself with horror movies like Ready or Not and The Babysitter, plus having a cameo in Scream VI, the actress is cemented as a modern scream queen. Samara Weaving's horror movies filmography grew again in 2024 thanks to Azrael, the action horror movie from the minds of director E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills) and writer Simon Barrett.

Azrael's story is set in a world where no one speaks. The movie revolves around a cult's attempt to imprison and sacrifice Weaving's Azrael to a mysterious evil. With Azrael's reviews being mostly positive, the inherent interest for some in seeing Weaving return to horror becomes even more exciting. This is especially true considering the involvement of Shudder, the horror-focused production company behind acclaimed films like In A Violent Nature,...

Samara Weaving is a horror movie icon. She burst onto the scene in and as The Babysitter, where she played the leader of a demonic cult masquerading as a sweet and upstanding resident in the suburbs. She later went on to cameo in the sequel to that Netflix release, alongside another budding horror enthusiast, Jenna Ortega. Weaving teamed up with Steven Yeun in Mayhem where they played two employees trying to resist the effects of an experimental virus that was causing everyone in their workplace to go berserk. And even if these films went under the radar of horror fans, everyone sat up and took notice when she took on a rich and murderous family in Ready or Not. She followed that up with the deliciously entertaining Guns Akimbo, alongside Daniel Radcliffe. She showed up for a brief cameo in Scream VI too. And now, she is here in and as Azrael,...

The new trailer has been revealed for Azrael. Azrael tells the story of a post-rapture world in which no one speaks anymore. In said word, the titular young woman, Azrael, who is set to be sacrificed, and how she must struggle to avoid her fate after being hunted down. Azrael is directed by E.L. Katz and features a leading cast including Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Vic Carmen Sonne, Sebastian Bull, and Eero Milonoff.

Now, IFC Films has released the trailer for Azrael. Check it out below:

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Selma Vilhunen’s intimate drama Four Little Adults gently explores the choices faced by one family embarking on non-traditional relationships. At its heart are Juulia and Matias, a married couple who’ve been together for many years. Like all partnerships, theirs has weathered ups and downs, and now new challenges emerge.

We meet the pair in their comfortable Helsinki home, where their lives seem stable. But appearances can be misleading. When secrets come to light, Juulia handles the situation with empathy and wisdom beyond her years. Rather than reacting in anger, she understands none of us have all the answers when it comes to love. Her bold proposal pushes boundaries yet stems from a place of open-heartedness.

As the months pass, we observe how the characters evolve, for better or worse. Vilhunen never judges but portrays each person’s struggles with nuance. Their journey may not follow well-worn routes, but...

Alma Pöysti stands out as a feminist politician in this irritatingly cosy portrait of a very complicated relationship worked out all too easily

A rosy glow of self-satisfied emotional intelligence emanates from this film about polyamory from Finland. Alma Pöysti (from Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves) plays Juulia, a progressive feminist politician married to Christian pastor Matias (Eero Milonoff); they have one child. When Matias, in anguish, admits he is in love with single-mum parishioner Enni (Oona Airola), but still loves Juulia, she is deeply hurt but boldly suggests an open marriage as a solution. Soon she too begins a relationship with queer nurse Miska (Pietu Wikström) who is together with a maths teacher in Sweden.

Having accepted the validity of polyamory, the movie naturally denies itself and us the vulgar sexy thrill of infidelity and guilty secrets. This makes it much more mature and much less exciting. Pöysti is good as Juulia,...

Be afraid, be very afraid: Finnish mystery thriller “Icebreaker” has just revealed exclusive first-look photos.

Set on a stranded icebreaker, it sees coast guard Sanna Tanner (Jessica Grabowsky) leading a rescue team. She comes across a group of survivors – and a frozen body – but over the course of six days, crew members start to disappear. And a vindictive spirit might have something to do with it.

“Icebreakers’” backers have shared a set of first-look stills in exclusivity with Variety.

Created by Mia Ylönen, who exec produces with Aleksi Bardy following their collaboration on “Codename: Annika,” “Icebreaker” is produced by Helsinki-filmi, an independent subsidiary of Aurora Studios.

Commissioned by Elisa Viihde and distributed by About Premium Content (Apc), the series boasts an impressive cast, with “Border” lead Eero Milonoff and “Compartment No. 6’s” Seidi Haarla joined by Mikko Leppilampi, Karim Rapatti, Roderick Kabanga or Johannes Holopainen.

“We wanted to build up slowly,...

Sales agency LevelK has unveiled the first clip (below) for Selma Vilhunen’s “Four Little Adults,” set to bow at Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam and then Goteborg. The film sees a happily married couple faced with an affair and then trying to embrace it, welcoming the husband’s lover into their daily routine. And that’s just the beginning.

The film was produced by Tuffi Films and Aurora Films, with Hobab and Manny Films also on board. It stars Eero Milonoff (“Border”) and Alma Pöysti (“Tove”).

“All my life I have been wondering about monogamy. I guess I have been questioning my own choices, what they are based on and whether it’s really the right way to live,” the Finnish filmmaker says.

As the conversations around alternative relationships grew louder, Vilhunen also reached for “More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory” by Eve Rickert and Franklin Veaux.

New film from Selma Vilhunen, who directed 2019 Berlinale Crystal Bear winner ‘Stupid Young Heart’.

LevelK has boarded international sales for Selma Vilhunen’s Four Little Adults, which premieres in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition and screens as part of Goteborg’s Nordic Competition.

The Finnish feature stars Alma Pöysti (Tove), Eero Milonoff (Border), Oona Airola (The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki) and Pietu Wikström (Girl Picture).

The story is about a woman who discovers her husband is having an affair, and decides to explore polyamory without secrets.

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Three young women in Helsinki explore their sexuality in Alli Haapasalo’s live-wire coming-of-age tale

Affairs of the heart – as well as the rest of the body – are the subject of this live-wire movie from Finnish director Alli Haapasalo, a triple-portrait of three young women in Helsinki who are looking for love or who find love looking for them. It’s a film that looks at the new possibility of sexuality, including, maybe, asexuality – the new frontier in sexual politics.

Aamu Milonoff is Mimmi: yearningly disgruntled with life and certainly with life at school where she gets into a scrap with another girl. Her friend Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen) works weekends with Mimmi at the smoothie bar at the mall, where a certain sweetly shy guy is hanging around, asking Rönkkö for a date. As for Mimmi herself, she has a coup de foudre at a party when she meets...

The story is about a woman who discovers her husband is having an affair, and decides to explore polyamory without secrets.

Selma Vilhunen has wrapped shooting on her new feature, Four Little Adults. The film stars Alma Pöysti (Tove), Eero Milonoff, and Oona Airola and Pietu Wikström, who both appear in Sundance and Berlinale 2022 selection Girl Picture.

The first image has also been released featuring Pöysti and Milonoff (see above).

The story is about a woman who discovers her husband is having an affair, and decides to explore polyamory without secrets.

The film shot in Helsinki for 31 days and is being readied for a 2023 launch.

Ali Abbasi's Border (2018) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom. It is showing from July 12 – August 10, 2019.Transcendence is a corporeal mechanism, as it dwells on the slim border dividing human from inhuman. Precisely this convergence of carnality and affect is what Ali Abbasi’s second feature film, Border (2018), touches upon. Tina (Eva Melander) is apathetic to the pleasures of society and relationships, yet she possesses an uncanny gift: to smell what people are feeling. Her compartmentalized being is stirred when she meets Vore (Eero Milonoff), their vertiginous infatuation reminiscing the Platonic myth of the androgyne: two souls in a single body. The truth, however, is far more unchaste. In Tina’s world, emotions acquire smell, aggression and passion become equally associated with sex, exacerbated by Nature’s sheltering landscapes. Her character is more intimate with the forest, than with people, and, for once, animalistic behavior is not condemned.

Ali Abbasi's Border (2018) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom. It is showing from July 12 – August 10, 2019.Behind the scenes of Border. Photo by Christian Geisnæs.Border is a film you will never forget. Not only because it’s a mythology-drenched love story, nor on the sole basis that Tina (Eva Melander) can literally smell people’s feelings; but because the film will leave a solid mark in imagery you cannot unsee, while enchanting you with the magic of interpersonal connection. A modern-day fairy tale, Ali Abbasi’s third project after the short film M for Markus (2011) and the feature Shelley (2016) is based on a short story by acclaimed writer John Ajvide Lindqvist, yet the director explores cinema’s dimensions in adapting the script, exquisite cinematography, and gradual character development that all make Border a cohesive world of its own. Set on the political border of Sweden,...

In Border Swedish/Iranian director Ali Abbasi offers one of the most intriguing, moving and utterly compelling films of the year so far. Adapted from a short story by Let The Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist titled Gräns. The film tells the story of an intuitive customs officer named Tina (Eva Melander) as she struggles to come to terms with her true identity after a chance meeting with the mysterious Vore (Eero Milonoff), whom she finds herself strangely attracted to.

A couple of weeks ago, HeyUGuys caught up with Abbasi and his lead actors Melander and Milonof who were on a flying visit to London. We were able to talk to them about this extraordinary story and their experiences of working under such exceptional circumstances and what compelled them to take on such a challenging project. Read our glowing review from Cannes last year.

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Sweden-based Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s new film features quasi-Neanderthal misfits making love in the woods and asks what it is to be human

Border is a film so packed with strange surprises that it’s best to see it without knowing anything about it, and almost impossible to discuss in a spoiler-free way. So if that’s the experience you crave, read no further. As its title suggests, Border blurs boundaries. The story begins at a literal border – a Swedish ferry terminal – and proceeds to dismantle more abstract ones: between human and animal, male and female, civilised and primal, right and wrong, possibly sublime and ridiculous. In terms of genre, too, it straddles Nordic noir, outsider romance and folk fantasy. And it features what could well be the weirdest sex scene in the history of cinema.

Our heroine is Tina, a customs officer who immediately seems odd. Her features are almost Neanderthal,...

Before February draws to a close, we have one more batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases coming our way, including the Oscar-nominated Border, which this writer loved. There are also a ton of great cult titles that are finally getting their dues this week, including Mausoleum, Invasion of the Blood Farmers, Wacko, Next of Kin, and for all you classic sci-fi fans, Scream Factory is showing some love to The Mole People as well, and if you missed it in theaters, The Possession of Hannah Grace comes home on Tuesday, too.

Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for February 26th include Willard (2003), Party Line, Bullitt County, Atone, and Battle for the Lost Planet/Mutant War.

Border

Tina (Eva Melander) is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man (Eero Milonoff) with a smell that confounds her detection,...

Other winners include Goliath and Reconstructing Utøya.

Ali Abbasi’s Border (Gräns) was the big winner at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards, which were announced last night (Jan 29) in Stockholm.

The film, which also won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes last year, scooped six awards in total, including best film and best actress for Eva Melander.

Peter Grönlund’s Goliath won four awards including best actor for Joakim Sällquist and best screenplay.

Reconstructing Utøya won best director for Carl Javér and best Documentary.

Full list of winners

Best Film

Border (Gräns)

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Ali Abbasi's genre-bending fantasy tale Border, about gender-fluid trolls living in modern-day Sweden, was the big winner Monday night at the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's leading film honors, picking up five trophies, including for best film.

Based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of the cult vampire fable Let the Right One In), Border draws inspiration from Scandinavian folklore for its tale of two misfits who embrace their otherness.

Eva Melander, almost unrecognizable without the prosthetics and the extra 40 pounds she gained for the lead role in Border, picked up best actress honors, while Finnish co-star Eero Milonoff was ...

Ali Abbasi's genre-bending fantasy tale Border, about gender-fluid trolls living in modern-day Sweden, was the big winner Monday night at the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's leading film honors, picking up five trophies, including for best film.

Based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of the cult vampire fable Let the Right One In), Border draws inspiration from Scandinavian folklore for its tale of two misfits who embrace their otherness.

Eva Melander, almost unrecognizable without the prosthetics and the extra 40 pounds she gained for the lead role in Border, picked up best actress honors, while Finnish co-star Eero Milonoff was ...

Border, Ali Abbasi's genre-bending fantasy tale about trolls in modern-day Sweden, on Thursday picked up nine nominations for the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's leading film honors.

Based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of the cult vampire fable Let The Right One In), Border draws inspiration from Scandinavian folklore for its tale of two misfits who embrace their otherness.

The film is an Oscar contender in the best hair and makeup category for its uncanny transformation of stars Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff into snaggletoothed, speckled-skinned trolls. Both Melander and Milonoff received Guldbagge noms, in the best actress ...

Border, Ali Abbasi's genre-bending fantasy tale about trolls in modern-day Sweden, on Thursday picked up nine nominations for the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's leading film honors.

Based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of the cult vampire fable Let The Right One In), Border draws inspiration from Scandinavian folklore for its tale of two misfits who embrace their otherness.

The film is an Oscar contender in the best hair and makeup category for its uncanny transformation of stars Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff into snaggletoothed, speckled-skinned trolls. Both Melander and Milonoff received Guldbagge noms, in the best actress ...

Palm Springs International Ff 2019: ‘Border’By Peter Belsito and Sydney LevineTalking Pictures & Book To Screen

The Talking Pictures program of the Palm Springs Ff includes in-depth discussions with directors, writers and actors from the year’s top titles. ‘Border’ aka ‘Grans’ (Sweden/Denmark) is on this year’s program with Director Ali Abbasi attending.Eero Milonoff and Eva Melander in ‘Gräns’ / ‘Border’

Peter: Border is the best film I’ve seen in recent months.

Sydney: I’m not so sure I loved it, but…

P: It is the Swedish submission for the Oscar nomination, in Swedish with English subtitles. I saw it in an L.A. theater in a series sponsored by Efp — European Film Promotion. They showed dozens of various European countries’ Oscar submitted films for press and trade in the recent weeks leading up to the announcement of the shortlist for Best Foreign Language Flms.

S: And...

Called upon to design makeup for Ali Abbasi’s Border—a singularly dark and clever fantasy, which won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize and has been selected as Sweden’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film—Göran Lundström would do some of the most transformative work he’d ever done, turning two European talents into trolls.

Demonstrating the highest degree of artistic commitment, Eva Melander put on weight and lost herself inside of many prosthetic pieces to become Tina, a customs officer who can smell fear. Developing an attraction to a mysterious traveler (Eero Milonoff’s Vore), Tina helps the police come to a series of disturbing discoveries, questioning her own identity, and life as she knows it, along the way.

Known for his work on Beauty and the Beast, Cloud Atlas, the Harry Potter series and more, Lundström was well acquainted with the challenges that come with film production in his home country.

In “Border,” Swedish actress Eva Melander buries herself in the role of Tina, an ostracized woman who feels out of place in society because of her otherworldly appearance. The peculiar creature she plays in director Ali Abbasi’s foreign-language Oscar submission suggests the unholy offspring of Quasimodo and a Tolkien Orc. But that’s just the starting point for an entrancing and unexpected love story when Tina — who works a lonely job in border security, using her rat-like sense of smell — wakes up to her superpowers when she meets a fawning man (Eero Milonoff) who looks just like her.

This dark fairytale owes much to its leading lady’s remarkable physical transformation, but audiences gripped by “Border” would never recognize its star on the street.

In reality, Melander is an affable, soft-spoken, 43-year-old acting veteran who has juggled a range of stage, television and film roles for over 15 years. The...

Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s (Let the Right One In) short story Gräns, Border is the latest from filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Shelley), which is centered around a seemingly ungainly woman named Tina (Eva Melander), who works as a customs officer and comes to realize that some of her preternatural abilities come from her true non-human identity, leaving her questioning her place in this world. Tina finds something of a kindred spirit in the mysterious Vore (Eero Milonoff), who bears a resemblance to her both physically and by way of their shared mannerisms, but their immediate connection is jeopardized once Tina sees Vore for what he really is.

Border arrives in theaters in both New York and Los Angeles this weekend, with a subsequent national theatrical rollout to follow, and to mark the occasion, Daily Dead spoke with both Abbasi and Melander about their experiences working on the film, and...

Border (Gräns) Neon Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Ali Abbasi Screenwriter: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf, based on a story by John Ajvide Lindqvist Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, Sten Ljunggren Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 10/18/18 Opens: October 26, 2018 People are not who they seem. This is […]

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One of the buzzier titles in this year's genre circles is Border, a new drama adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist's short story "Grans." You may remember Lindqvist as the man behind the much beloved Let the Right One In. The movie premiered at Cannes where our correspondent had a chance to see it and was mostly unimpressed.

Border is a modern fairy tale adapted and directed by Ali Abbasi. The movie stars Eva Melander as Tina, a customs officer who can smell fear. When she meets and develops a relationship with a strange traveler named Vore, Eero Milonoff, her life is upturned by revelations that her family has been lying to her about who she is and where she comes from.

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A racial melodrama joined a harrowing sexual assault victim pic and, ironically, a doc about Roger Ailes to win top awards at the 26th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival. “All Good (Alles ist Gut)” from first-time East Berlin director Eva Trobisch was named the Best Narrative Feature. “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” directed by Alexis Bloom nabbed Best Documentary Feature. And in something of a surprise, “The Hate U Give” from director George Tillman Jr. wooed East Enders into giving it the Audience Award. It beat out top Oscar contenders “First Man,” “Roma,” “Green Book” and “The Favourite.”

“There’s always some things that surprise me about films that do well and films that don’t do well, but overall people seemed to embrace all the films this year,” Fest Artistic Director David Nugent told Gold Derby. “We’re happy that 9 of the 10 last years we’ve...

20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give has won the narrative feature audience award at the Hamptons Film Festival, which just wrapped its 26th edition. The Ya drama directed by George Tillman Jr and starring Amandla Stenberg began its theatrical rollout this weekend as well in three dozen locations grossing $500,000; it screened Friday at the festival which gave Stenberg one of its Breakthrough Artist Awards.

The Hamptons festival also said today John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm won the audience awards for documentary features, and One Small Step, directed by former Disney artists Bobby Pontillas & Andrew Chesworth, won the audience award for best short film.

Earlier in the week, Eva Trobisch’s All Good (Alles Ist Gut) led the juried awards winning for Best Narrative Feature. The documentary top honor went to Magnolia’s Divide And Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, directed by Alex Bloom, which hits...

Border U.S. and International Trailers Ali Abbasi‘s Border / Gräns (2018) U.S. and international movie trailer stars Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, and Sten Ljunggren. Border‘s plot synopsis: based on the short film by John Ajvide Lindqvist, “Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. It’s almost as if she can [...]

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One of our favorite discoveries at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Ali Abbasi’s fantasy tale Border. Adapted the from a short by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who wrote Let the Right One In, Sweden’s Oscar entry follows a border guard who has a unique ability, but things change when she comes across a peculiar man. After winning the top prize in its Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Neon picked it up for a U.S. release, set for this October.

Rory O’Connor said in his review, “This delightfully grungy and ethereal contemporary horror from Iranian-born, Denmark-based Ali Abbasi concerns a romance between two creatures who happen to be feeling out those opposite warring sides. One is attempting to satisfy a craving for love while the other indulges the violence. Border, like Frankenstein, is a work about the “Other” and how that Other might operate if...

"There's no flaw in you." Neon has released the first official Us trailer for the "instant cult classic" Swedish film Border, originally titled Gräns, which originally premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival this summer. This was easily one of my favorite films of Cannes this year, an extra funky, wacky, ingenious, one-of-a-kind Swedish tale of love and monsters. Border is about a woman named Tina, played under heavy make-up by Eva Melander, who works as a customs agent, sniffing out sneaky people hiding things. One day she encounters a strange man who she's oddly attracted to, and they strike up a relationship leading to her learning the truth about herself. The cast includes Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, and Sten Ljunggren. This little film is so weird and funky, but so damn good. Nothing else like it. Here's the first official Us trailer (+ new poster) for Ali Abbasi's Border,...

MoviePass subscribers get to watch both titles as bonus films.

MoviePass Films, the Jv between controversial MoviePass and embattled parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics and Emmett Furla Oasis Films, has partnered with Neon to invest and co-release Monsters And Men and Border.

The partnership kicks off on Tuesday (25) with the New York City premiere of Sundance pick-up Monsters And Men, ahead of the New York and Los Angeles limited launch on Thursday (27).

Reinaldo Marcus Green wrote and directed the drama about the police shooting of a black man that stars BlacKkKlansman’s John David Washington and newcomers Anthony Ramos...

Home and Film4 have today announced the programme for the third annual FilmFear season – six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests coming to Manchester this October.

Acclaimed Scandi fantasy Border, co-written by the author of Let the Right One In, kicks off the season on 26th October and is the first of eight new films from across the globe to screen over the six-day event. A visceral fusion of Nordic noir, social realism and supernatural horror, Border’s genre-defying tone is matched in fellow Swedish title Videoman, a mystery-thriller/relationship-drama that will surprise audiences with its tonal shifts, while the chilling horror St. Agatha from celebrated filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman bolsters the emerging ‘Nunsploitation’ genre. Let the Corpses Tan is a ferocious take on Euro Westerns and Italian crime ‘Poliziotteschi’ genre from Belgian directing duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (The Strange Colour of Your Body...

Sweden has picked Border, a fantastic tale of trolls living and working in modern-day Scandinavia, as its entry for the 2019 foreign-language Oscar.

The second feature from Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbassi is based on a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the writer of cult vampire classic Let ihe Right One In.

Border focuses on two misshapen outsiders who resemble the trolls of Nordic folklore. Tina (Eva Melander), who can sense human emotions, works as a glorified sniffer dog for Swedish border police but is shunned by her colleagues and society. Vore (Eero Milonoff), a fellow outcast, is defiant and proud in his beastly ...

Sweden has picked Border, a fantastic tale of trolls living and working in modern-day Scandinavia, as its entry for the 2019 foreign-language Oscar.

The second feature from Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbassi is based on a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the writer of cult vampire classic Let ihe Right One In.

Border focuses on two misshapen outsiders who resemble the trolls of Nordic folklore. Tina (Eva Melander), who can sense human emotions, works as a glorified sniffer dog for Swedish border police but is shunned by her colleagues and society. Vore (Eero Milonoff), a fellow outcast, is defiant and proud in his beastly ...