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Held in conjunction with the Night Visions film festival in Helsinki, Finland, the inaugural edition of Nordic Genre Industry Days presented panel discussions and pitch sessions for projects that are currently in development. As might be imagined from the title,...

The other week we reported that the Nordic Genre Boost was providing funding to seven fantastic film projects around the Nordic region of Europe. One of those projects is going to be Thale 2, one of two projects from Norway. From...

Norwegian mythical thriller Thale was recently released on Blu-ray and we're now finally able to see what all the hubbub was about. There was a lot of noise in horror circles about Thale presenting a new kind of mythology as...

What do you say to a naked lady -- especially one who emerges from a bathtub filled with a milky white substance, and a hose stuck in her mouth? If you're Elvis (Erlend Nervold), a neophyte worker with No...

What do you say to a naked lady -- especially one who emerges from a bathtub filled with a milky white substance, and a hose stuck in her mouth? If you're Elvis (Erlend Nervold), a neophyte worker with No Shit...

How do you take a good thing and make it better? Well, you could add a shot of an attractive naked woman with a tail, for one thing. And that is precisely what director Aleksander Nordaas has done in the...

It was exactly a year ago today that we brought the first teaser for Thale, Aleksander Nordaas' upcoming feature film about around the mythology of the Nordic wood spirit known as the huldra.A seductive forest spirit who appears from the...

[It was up, then it was gone, now it's back and staying.]When the teaser for Aleksander Nordaas' upcoming feature Thale arrived online a couple weeks back it caused quite a stir, the dark fantasy tale drawing attention around the globe....

[Post updated to include the trailer for Nordaas' previous short film In Chambers]This would appear to be the year of Norwegian folk tales on the big screen. The Nordic countries - and northern Europe in general - have rich traditions...