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The Abyss' well-written characters, portrayed by a talented cast, make the fictional disaster feel hauntingly real. Director Richard Holm's focus on technical aspects and human stories adds depth to the central disaster. The Abyss' gripping visuals and strong performances keep viewers hooked, sparking curiosity about the characters.

The Abyss' gripping disaster drama is driven by its well-written characters who are convincingly portrayed by a roster of talented cast members. Although only partially inspired by true events, The Abyss' fictionalized drama surrounding a catastrophic rock burst feels a little too real because of director Richard Holm's emphasis on both the technical aspects of the central disaster and the human stories surrounding it. The film's storyline begins with the town of Kiruna experiencing some worrying seismic activity, especially in the area around the town's central mine.

With what follows, the mine's head of security, Frigga, takes the initiative of teaming up...

The Abyss has a 22% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, criticized for being predictable and boring. Critics found The Abyss slightly more entertaining, but still lacking in compelling characters and plot. The Abyss caters to fans of disaster movies with realistic effects and true story inspiration.

The 2023 Swedish disaster movie The Abyss quickly made its way into the streaming giant’s Top Ten, but it might not be for everyone. Netflix’s catalog of international movies keeps expanding, and among its latest additions is The Abyss, directed by Richard Holm. The Abyss is based on a true story, although partially, taking viewers to the Swedish city of Kiruna, where an earthquake that hit the local mine in 2020 triggered a series of issues for the city and its inhabitants, leading to quick efforts to relocate all its residents to a safe location.

Aside from the setting and its context, the events of The Abyss are fictional.

The town of Kiruna, Sweden, is moving — its ground shifts so often from the giant mine below it that the whole place is in danger of collapsing. The townspeople have to pack up and leave, eventually… but it turns out Kiruna may be sinking faster than anyone thought: Quakes are occurring with more frequency, and people are falling into the earth. It’s up to one woman, Frigga (Tuva Novotny), who knows the mine better than anyone else, to save the town — and her family.

In the Swedish disaster movie The Abyss, also starring Peter Franzén and Kardo Razzazi, Frigga pushes her work-life balance to the limits as she battles against a crumbling mine while her children’s lives are at stake. The film was directed by Richard Holm (Gåsmamman) with a screenplay by Holm, his son Robin Sherlock Holm (The Machinery), and Nicola Sinclair.

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The Abyss movie was partially inspired by a true story based on an earthquake in Kiruna, Sweden. The Kiruna Mine Disaster in 2020 led to evacuations with no reported casualties, inspiring the events in The Abyss film. After the 2020 earthquake, Kiruna sped up its move due to mine-related dangers, a process that has been ongoing since the early 2000s.

Netflix has added the Swedish movie The Abyss to its streaming library, and after watching it, one can't help but wonder if the horrific onscreen story was inspired by actual events (and if it could happen in real life). The 2023 disaster action film, directed by Richard Holm and written by Holm, Robin Sherlock Holm, and Nicola Sinclair, revolves around the residents of Kiruna, Sweden, struggling to survive a catastrophic rock burst that threatens to swallow the town whole. Kiruna is a real city, so its setting isn't based on a fictional town,...

The Abyss is a film written and directed by Richard Holm. It stars Tuva Novotny, Kardo Razzazi, Peter Franzén and Felicia Truedsson.

Sweden’s biggest rock burst, the world’s largest mine, causes hundreds of earthquakes every year. The surrounding communities have to keep moving due to the tremors, which destroy houses.

“The Abyss” is a Swedish film, dramatic and with a touch of ecological sustainability, about an overexploited mine that threatens to destroy a city. It is a small production that knows what it wants to achieve, how to do it, and above all, what resources it has and who its target audience is.

Thus, “The Abyss” is a television production that does not aim to reach the Hollywood disaster movie level and, by making good decisions (especially due to its budget), knows how to focus more on the characters and their development rather than the mine disaster itself.

The industry programme at the Norwegian festival included a focus on UK projects.

Two veryr different projects from female directors have been the talk of the industry at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market this week.

Amanda Kernell won the pitching prize after the Co-Production Market presentation of her third feature film, The Curse - A Love Story while Thea Hvistendahl’s work in progress Handling The Undead, which reunites Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie after The Worst Person in the World, hugely impressed buyers and festival programmers alike

The Curse will follow Kernell’s Venice 2016 premiere Sami Blood and Sundance 2020 selection Charter.

Hot Nordic works-in-progress at the Norwegian event include ’Handing The Undead’ starring Renate Reinsve.

Haugesund’s New Nordic Films industry event will have a two-year special focus on Nordic co-productions with the UK in 2023 and 2024.

Activities in 2023 include a session with Denitsa Yordanova, head of the UK Global Screen Fund, and a case study of Iceland-shot The Damned, Thordur Palsson’s upcoming psychological horror, with producer Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl of the UK’s Elation Pictures.

At Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market, four UK projects will be presented: Gunnar’s Daughter, produced by Angeli Marie Macfarlane at Script Cube...

Sf Studios, the 104-year old Nordic giant, has crashed into the awards season with Tom Hanks’ “A Man Called Otto,” which it produced with Playtone and fully financed.

Buzzed about as a potentially strong Oscar candidate since its first official screening in L.A. last week, the Sony Pictures film is a remake of “A Man Called Ove,” the Swedish hit also produced by Sf Studios. The 2015 film, adapted from Fredrik Backman’s global bestseller, earned two Oscar nominations.

Sf Studios’ CEO and president Michael Porseryd told Variety that the 50-million film with Hanks underscores the banner’s commitment to theatrical movies and its drive to own intellectual property rights for content it finances.

“The biggest difficulty we’re facing right now is to get audiences back into theaters, but when a movie works in cinemas, the payback is much bigger than when dealing with a streamer,” said Porseryd, who...

It takes a lot for a World War II movie to really set itself apart from the crowd, and Richard Holm's Beyond the Border (aka Gränsen) can't quite convince us armchair generals it's that different. The story of a group of Swedish soldiers behind enemy lines in Finland as the Germans prepare to invade their homeland, Beyond the Border manages some great moments but there's too much slavish adherence to type for it to be much more than very good overall. As a dry, savagely violent look at the messy business of war on a small scale, how human frailty leads people to make poor decisions and the terrible consequences those decisions lead to, it's fantastic. But Holm and star André Sjöberg (who co-wrote)...