Sundance Film Festival is heading to London again this summer and the programme is full of cinematic goodies. More below.
The days are getting lighter, the sun is shining ever so slightly more now and we’ve packed away our thickest wool jumpers, although we still need some thick socks. That must mean one thing and one thing only.
Sundance Film Festival: London is almost upon us.
Some might say summer is coming too, but we’re mostly excited for Sundance London, which has just revealed their full programme for this year’s festival. The festival brings a fine selection of films which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, in Park City, Utah. The crème de la crème, so to speak.
The festival will open on 6 June with a screening of Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language film and draw to a close on 9 June with Sean Wang...
The days are getting lighter, the sun is shining ever so slightly more now and we’ve packed away our thickest wool jumpers, although we still need some thick socks. That must mean one thing and one thing only.
Sundance Film Festival: London is almost upon us.
Some might say summer is coming too, but we’re mostly excited for Sundance London, which has just revealed their full programme for this year’s festival. The festival brings a fine selection of films which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, in Park City, Utah. The crème de la crème, so to speak.
The festival will open on 6 June with a screening of Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language film and draw to a close on 9 June with Sean Wang...
- 4/23/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Renate Reinsve in Handling The Undead. Peter Raeburn: 'When you're working on a film like this, it's like being part of a band, and I play one instrument, someone else plays another and everyone's very respectful' Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Zombie movies traditionally involve lurching cadavers and adrenaline-rush horror. Thea Hvistendahl takes an altogether slower and more sorrowful approach with her debut Handling The Undead, which is adapted by Let The Right One In’s John Ajvide Lindqvist from his own book. The drip of dread and the horror of grief come together in this trio of tales in which, after a strange event in a hot Oslo summer, families find their loved ones rising from the grave. In one corner of the city, Renate Reinsve’s Anna and her father (Bjørn Sundquist) try to help her son, with his rasping breath and buzzing flies telling us all...
- 2/6/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The first word that comes to mind when thinking of how to write about Thea Hvistendahl’s Handling the Undead is: dread. To expand: slow, ponderous dread. Written by John Ajvide Lindqvist (and based on his novel of the same name), this is a zombie movie in the tradition of the author’s own Let the Right One In. There are zombies here but, as with the vampires in the latter work, the focus is elsewhere, mostly. Its genre construct is meant to elevate a deeper kind of pain. In this incarnation, a series of sad people dealing with different variations of grief must contend with an unsettling new reality: those loved ones they’ve buried have come back to life.
But only somewhat. Stand-up comedian David (Anders Danielsen Lie) loses his wife (Bahar Pars) in a car accident, forced to face their two children in the immediate aftermath. Hours later,...
But only somewhat. Stand-up comedian David (Anders Danielsen Lie) loses his wife (Bahar Pars) in a car accident, forced to face their two children in the immediate aftermath. Hours later,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Early in Handling the Undead, an adolescent girl, Flora (Inesa Dauksta), plays a video game where shooting zombies is your ticket to staying alive. Rendered in crude 3D, these shambling, emaciated, flesh-hungry zombies are the familiar sort that have haunted the pop-cultural imagination, and this depiction stands in seeming contrast to the people who came back from the dead after a mysterious event in Thea Hvistendahl’s film. They don’t do much of anything except breath and stare from behind glassy eyes at a world we’re never really sure if they can comprehend. But while they’re shells of who they once were, silent and often immobile, they recall enough of where they came from to reach out to the people who grieve them.
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl, the film moves between three non-intersecting subplots. In one, we...
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl, the film moves between three non-intersecting subplots. In one, we...
- 1/29/2024
- by Steven Scaife
- Slant Magazine
A loud, high-pitched sound echoes through the streets of Oslo. Car alarms start going off everywhere. A citywide blackout begins. An elderly man, draped over his grandson’s grave, begins to hear the sound of muffled knocks coming from under the ground. “Grandpa is coming,” he says repeatedly. He grabs a shovel and begins to dig. So begins Handling the Undead, Thea Hvistendahl‘s somber feature directorial debut that acts as a haunting meditation on grief, daring to ask us what we would do if someone we loved returned from the dead.
Adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s (Let the Right One In) 2005 novel of the same name (he also co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl), Handling the Undead chronicles the lives of three families as they deal with the sudden return of their recently deceased loved ones. Anna is saved from a suicide attempt when her father Mahler (Bjørn Sundquist...
Adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s (Let the Right One In) 2005 novel of the same name (he also co-wrote the screenplay with Hvistendahl), Handling the Undead chronicles the lives of three families as they deal with the sudden return of their recently deceased loved ones. Anna is saved from a suicide attempt when her father Mahler (Bjørn Sundquist...
- 1/26/2024
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sundance film festival: The Worst Person in the World’s Renate Reinsve leads a dour film about families dealing with the reappearance of deceased loved ones
The dead are returning in the chilly Norwegian drama Handling the Undead, a sad, somber attempt to guide the zombie genre from midnight movie to arthouse. It works in parts, as a study of the ache and irrationality of grief, asking its characters how much they’re willing to accept and deny in order to see their loved ones again. But the first-time director Thea Hvistendahl’s patience-insisting slow burn can be testing, like watching a block of ice slowly melt, a story told in the smallest of drips, some of which sink in deeper than others.
On a summer’s day in Oslo, three different dynamics are upended by this confounding re-emergence. A single mother (The Worst Person in the World’s Renate...
The dead are returning in the chilly Norwegian drama Handling the Undead, a sad, somber attempt to guide the zombie genre from midnight movie to arthouse. It works in parts, as a study of the ache and irrationality of grief, asking its characters how much they’re willing to accept and deny in order to see their loved ones again. But the first-time director Thea Hvistendahl’s patience-insisting slow burn can be testing, like watching a block of ice slowly melt, a story told in the smallest of drips, some of which sink in deeper than others.
On a summer’s day in Oslo, three different dynamics are upended by this confounding re-emergence. A single mother (The Worst Person in the World’s Renate...
- 1/24/2024
- by Benjamin Lee in Park City, Utah
- The Guardian - Film News
Perhaps the best way to describe the Norwegian zombie movie, Handling the Undead (Handtering av Udode), is as a mournful reflection on grief, on the struggle of the bereaved to let go of their departed loved ones. Based on the book by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, whose debut novel, Let the Right One In, became one of the best vampire movies of the 21st century — yielding a solid enough American remake, a so-so Showtime series and an innovative British stage adaptation — Thea Hvistendahl’s debut feature is a slow-burn experience that demands patience.
The degree to which that patience is rewarded will depend on the viewer’s willingness to get lost in the mood of pervasive anxiety and sorrow in a movie whose elegant restraint make it more psychological study than horror. That applies even once the rotting flesh-eaters have been revealed. One selling point of the multistrand drama...
The degree to which that patience is rewarded will depend on the viewer’s willingness to get lost in the mood of pervasive anxiety and sorrow in a movie whose elegant restraint make it more psychological study than horror. That applies even once the rotting flesh-eaters have been revealed. One selling point of the multistrand drama...
- 1/20/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If zombies weren’t so fixated on eating our brains, perhaps they’d be poignant to have around: semi-living, semi-breathing semblances of people we’ve loved, there to be seen and held and talked to, not truly present but not absent either. Whether that’s preferable to the void of death is the question underpinning “Handling the Undead” for much of its running time, even as the threat of the undead reverting to their usual habits gives this soft, sorrowful bereavement drama a core of cold-blooded horror. Thea Hvistendahl’s impressively restrained debut feature may keep its genre intentions just up its sleeve until the final act, but it never feels like a trick or a compromise: It’s a living-dead nightmare with a brain and a heart and, most importantly and inedibly, a soul.
The film’s somewhat liminal genre identity presents marketing challenges for U.S. distributor Neon...
The film’s somewhat liminal genre identity presents marketing challenges for U.S. distributor Neon...
- 1/20/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
In the realm of zombie-themed films, a genre often fliled with clichés and predictable plot lines, Handling the Undead aims to stand out as something different.
Directed by Thea Hvistendahl, and written by Hvistendahl and John Ajvide Lindqvist, the film stars Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Bahar Pars, Inesa Dauksta, Olga Damani, and Kian Hansen.
The story takes a subtle approach, diverging from the expected scenes of chaos and horror, while focusing on three families set against a backdrop of an apocalyptic event. The narrative is an exploration of human response to the unimaginable.
Handling the Undead opens with the camera hovering over a large apartment complex in the middle of a hot Oslo summer. Mahler (Sundquist) walks up the stairs to an apartment where his granddaughter (Reinsve) is blasting bossa nova music and painting her toenails before getting ready for work. There are pictures of...
Directed by Thea Hvistendahl, and written by Hvistendahl and John Ajvide Lindqvist, the film stars Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Bahar Pars, Inesa Dauksta, Olga Damani, and Kian Hansen.
The story takes a subtle approach, diverging from the expected scenes of chaos and horror, while focusing on three families set against a backdrop of an apocalyptic event. The narrative is an exploration of human response to the unimaginable.
Handling the Undead opens with the camera hovering over a large apartment complex in the middle of a hot Oslo summer. Mahler (Sundquist) walks up the stairs to an apartment where his granddaughter (Reinsve) is blasting bossa nova music and painting her toenails before getting ready for work. There are pictures of...
- 1/20/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Thea Hvistendahl’s “Handling the Undead,” fresh off its Sundance premiere, has already scared multiple buyers into submission, Variety has found out exclusively.
Starring “The Worst Person in the World’s” Renate Reinsve and sold by TrustNordisk, it has been picked up by Hungary (Vertigo Media), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), France (KinoVista), Spain (Avalon Distribution), Korea (Pancinema), Japan (Tohokushinsha Film Corp.), Taiwan (Swallow Wings Films) and Anz (Signature Entertainment).
Neon Rated acquired North American and U.K. rights.
In the Norwegian film, Mahler and his daughter, Anna, mourn the too early passing of his grandson. Tora says her final goodbye to her wife at the funeral home, while a family of four face a life without a wife and mother.
Then, a strange electric field and collective migraine spread across Oslo on an especially hot summer day. Television sets, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, and suddenly, it’s all over.
Starring “The Worst Person in the World’s” Renate Reinsve and sold by TrustNordisk, it has been picked up by Hungary (Vertigo Media), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), France (KinoVista), Spain (Avalon Distribution), Korea (Pancinema), Japan (Tohokushinsha Film Corp.), Taiwan (Swallow Wings Films) and Anz (Signature Entertainment).
Neon Rated acquired North American and U.K. rights.
In the Norwegian film, Mahler and his daughter, Anna, mourn the too early passing of his grandson. Tora says her final goodbye to her wife at the funeral home, while a family of four face a life without a wife and mother.
Then, a strange electric field and collective migraine spread across Oslo on an especially hot summer day. Television sets, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, and suddenly, it’s all over.
- 1/20/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Let the Right One In (or Låt den rätte komma in) has inspired a Swedish film of the same name, an American film called Let Me In, and a short-lived Showtime series called Let the Right One In, while his short story Gräns served as the basis of the 2018 fantasy film Border. The latest adaptation of his work is the Norwegian film Handling the Undead, based on the novel Hanteringen av odöda. The film will be screening at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinematic Dramatic Competition, and has also secured a North American and UK distribution deal with Neon. Now that we know the film is heading to Sundance, a trailer for Handling the Undead has made its way online, and you can check it out in the embed above.
Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl,...
Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
"I love you whether you like it or not." Neon has unveiled the first official trailer for the indie horror thriller from Norway titled Handling the Undead, marking the first narrative feature from Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl. It was also announced today as part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival line-up in the World Cinema Competition section. This dramatic horror-thriller takes place on a hot summer day in Oslo. The newly dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? What does this resurrection mean and are their loved ones back? Adapted from the novel by the same writer who wrote the Let the Right One In book. Starring Renate Reinsve (from The Worst Person in the World), Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars, and Inesa Dauksta. Yes this is...
- 12/7/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the genre films announced this afternoon for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival is Handling the Undead, based on the novel from writer John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In). Neon unveiled a new trailer ahead of the fest, giving a closer look at families grappling with the sudden awakening of the dead.
A strange phenomena erupts across Oslo, causing a strange spike in electricity that resurrects people who recently died.
The Norwegian film is the feature-length directorial debut of filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl. The horror drama feature is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Lindqvist co-wrote the script along with the director.
In Handling the Undead: “On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.”
Watch the trailer below, which has a...
A strange phenomena erupts across Oslo, causing a strange spike in electricity that resurrects people who recently died.
The Norwegian film is the feature-length directorial debut of filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl. The horror drama feature is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Lindqvist co-wrote the script along with the director.
In Handling the Undead: “On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.”
Watch the trailer below, which has a...
- 12/6/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
It was a casting announcement that brought joy to fans of Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World. Actors Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie reunited for another film, under the direction of fellow Norwegian filmmaker Thea Hvistendahl. Production on Handling the Undead (aka Håndtering av udøde) took place in Oslo in October of 2022 and it’ll be ready for a launch via the Neon folks in 2024. Also starring Bjørn Sundquist and Bente Børsum, this Scandi-horror drama deals with grief and mortality and extends itself onto more than one family. Hvistendahl had her 2019 short film premiere at SXSW so programmers there will also be keeping tabs on this one.…...
- 11/12/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The World War Two drama War Sailor — which debuted at last year’s Toronto Film Festival — swept Norway’s Amanda Awards last night, taking four main awards.
The War Sailor haul included best actor for Pål Sverre Hagen. This is his third Amanda and second consecutive win. Ine Marie Wilmann won the best supporting actress award for portraying Cecilia in the pic.
The film, directed by Norwegian filmmaker Gunnar Vikene, centers on Alfred Garnes, a working-class sailor who has recently become the father of a third child. He and his childhood friend Sigbjørn Kvalen are working on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. They are unarmed civilians on the front lines of a war they never asked to join. The two men struggle for survival in a spiral of violence and death, where German submarines may attack their valuable vessels at any moment.
The War Sailor haul included best actor for Pål Sverre Hagen. This is his third Amanda and second consecutive win. Ine Marie Wilmann won the best supporting actress award for portraying Cecilia in the pic.
The film, directed by Norwegian filmmaker Gunnar Vikene, centers on Alfred Garnes, a working-class sailor who has recently become the father of a third child. He and his childhood friend Sigbjørn Kvalen are working on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. They are unarmed civilians on the front lines of a war they never asked to join. The two men struggle for survival in a spiral of violence and death, where German submarines may attack their valuable vessels at any moment.
- 8/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Handling the Undead (Håndtering av udøde)
A directorial debut that reunites thesps Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie for a third occasion, Norwegian helmer Thea Hvistendahl got a major boost from the Neon folks swooping in and grabbing the title back in September. Described as a character-driven horror/drama dealing with fundamental emotions around grief and mortality. The cast also includes Bjørn Sundquist and Bente Børsum. Einar Film’s Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby are producing.
Gist: On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town. TVs, lightbulbs, and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.…...
A directorial debut that reunites thesps Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie for a third occasion, Norwegian helmer Thea Hvistendahl got a major boost from the Neon folks swooping in and grabbing the title back in September. Described as a character-driven horror/drama dealing with fundamental emotions around grief and mortality. The cast also includes Bjørn Sundquist and Bente Børsum. Einar Film’s Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby are producing.
Gist: On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town. TVs, lightbulbs, and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.…...
- 1/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
After a very brief acting debut in Oslo, August 31st, Renate Reinsve reteamed with Anders Danielsen Lie and Joachim Trier for The Worst Person in the World, picking up Best Actress at Cannes, and the rest is history. Now, the actors are reuniting for a new Norwegian horror drama.
Picked up by Neon, Handling the Undead brings together Reinsve and Danielsen Lie, as well as Bjørn Sundquist (Witch Hunters), Bente Børsum (Exit), and og Bahars Pars (A Man Called Ove), marking the feature debut of director Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including Virgins4lyfe which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at SXSW.
Handling the Undead is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who co-wrote the script by Hvistendahl. On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town.
Picked up by Neon, Handling the Undead brings together Reinsve and Danielsen Lie, as well as Bjørn Sundquist (Witch Hunters), Bente Børsum (Exit), and og Bahars Pars (A Man Called Ove), marking the feature debut of director Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including Virgins4lyfe which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at SXSW.
Handling the Undead is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who co-wrote the script by Hvistendahl. On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town.
- 9/8/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Neon has acquired North American and UK rights to the upcoming Handling the Undead, Screen Daily reports, based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In).
Thea Hvistendahl (Adjø Montebello) is directing the film, which is now in production.
Screen Daily reports, “Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.”
“The character-driven drama explores grief and loss and follows three families caught up in the chaos.”
The cast includes Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, and Bahars Pars.
Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby are producing via their Einar Film, with whom Anonymous Content has partnered on Scandinavian joint venture Anonymous Content Nordic. The film is co-produced by Zentropa Sweden and Filmiki, and supported by The Norwegian Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute, Film i Väst, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Oslo Film Fond.
Thea Hvistendahl (Adjø Montebello) is directing the film, which is now in production.
Screen Daily reports, “Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.”
“The character-driven drama explores grief and loss and follows three families caught up in the chaos.”
The cast includes Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, and Bahars Pars.
Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby are producing via their Einar Film, with whom Anonymous Content has partnered on Scandinavian joint venture Anonymous Content Nordic. The film is co-produced by Zentropa Sweden and Filmiki, and supported by The Norwegian Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute, Film i Väst, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Oslo Film Fond.
- 9/7/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Neon has acquired the North American and British distribution rights to the horror drama Handling the Undead, starring Oscar-nominated Renate Reinsve.
Reinsve earned the best actress crown at Cannes for her star turn in The Worst Person in the World. She is joined in Handling The Undead by fellow Worst Person in the World actor Anders Danielsen Lie in the feature debut for director Thea Hvistendahl.
The film about three families facing loss and grief is currently in production and is produced by Kristin Emblem & Guri Neby under their Einar Film banner and also stars Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum and Bahars Pars.
Hvistendahl earlier directed the documentary AdjøMontebello and several short films, including Virgins4lyfe, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at SXSW.
Handling the Undead is set on a hot summer day in Oslo, Norway, as a strange electric field...
Neon has acquired the North American and British distribution rights to the horror drama Handling the Undead, starring Oscar-nominated Renate Reinsve.
Reinsve earned the best actress crown at Cannes for her star turn in The Worst Person in the World. She is joined in Handling The Undead by fellow Worst Person in the World actor Anders Danielsen Lie in the feature debut for director Thea Hvistendahl.
The film about three families facing loss and grief is currently in production and is produced by Kristin Emblem & Guri Neby under their Einar Film banner and also stars Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum and Bahars Pars.
Hvistendahl earlier directed the documentary AdjøMontebello and several short films, including Virgins4lyfe, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at SXSW.
Handling the Undead is set on a hot summer day in Oslo, Norway, as a strange electric field...
- 9/7/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neon has acquired the North American and UK distribution rights to a film called “Handling the Undead” that will reunite the distributor with its stars from “The Worst Person in the World,” Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie.
“Handling the Undead” is the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a book by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who is the author of horror classics that have also been adapted into features “Let the Right One In” and “Border.”
The film is currently shooting and no specific release date plans were revealed. Here’s the full synopsis:
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On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town. TVs, lightbulbs, and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over. “Handling the Undead...
“Handling the Undead” is the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a book by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who is the author of horror classics that have also been adapted into features “Let the Right One In” and “Border.”
The film is currently shooting and no specific release date plans were revealed. Here’s the full synopsis:
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On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town. TVs, lightbulbs, and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over. “Handling the Undead...
- 9/7/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Neon has acquired North American and UK rights to the horror-drama Handling the Undead, marking the narrative feature debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who previously directed the documentary Adjø Montebello and several short films, including the SXSW Grand Jury Award-nominated Virgins4lyfe. The project reteams the distributor with Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie, who starred in its Oscar-nominated romantic drama The Worst Person in the World, directed by Joachim Trier.
Handling the Undead picks up on an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, as a strange electric field surrounds the city, with a collective migraine spreading across town. TVs, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.
The film currently in production is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the renowned writer of bestselling horror novels and the screenplays Border and Let the Right One In, who co-wrote the script with Hvistendahl.
Handling the Undead picks up on an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, as a strange electric field surrounds the city, with a collective migraine spreading across town. TVs, lightbulbs and electronics go haywire, the chaos reaching a debilitating crescendo when suddenly, it’s over.
The film currently in production is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the renowned writer of bestselling horror novels and the screenplays Border and Let the Right One In, who co-wrote the script with Hvistendahl.
- 9/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Border screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote novel on which feature is based.
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
- 9/7/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Border screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote novel on which feature is based.
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World stars Renate Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
- 9/7/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Border screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote novel on which feature is based.
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World star Renate Reinsve and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
The character-driven...
Neon is reuniting with The Worst Person In The World star Renate Reinsve and has acquired North American and UK rights to in-production horror Handling The Undead.
The film marks the fiction feature directing debut of Thea Hvistendahl and is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who write Border, which Neon released, and Let The Right One In.
Hvistendahl and Lindqvist jointly adapted the screenplay about a strange electrical field which surrounds Oslo on an abnormally hot summer day, causing collective migraine and mayhem.
The character-driven...
- 9/7/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Let the Right One In (or Låt den rätte komma in) has inspired a Swedish film of the same name, an American film called Let Me In, and an upcoming Showtime series called Let the Right One In, while his short story Gräns served as the basis of the 2018 fantasy film Border. Now Variety reports that we’re getting another film based on Lindqvist source material, and this time it’s a zombie movie called Handling the Undead, based on the novel Hanteringen av odöda. TrustNordisk has picked up the international sales rights to the character-driven horror drama, which is currently filming.
Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who is working from a screenplay written by Lindqvist himself. (He also handled the screenplay adaptation of Let the Right One In himself.) This one begins
during an especially hot summer day in Oslo,...
Handling the Undead marks the feature directorial debut of Thea Hvistendahl, who is working from a screenplay written by Lindqvist himself. (He also handled the screenplay adaptation of Let the Right One In himself.) This one begins
during an especially hot summer day in Oslo,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to the upcoming horror drama “Handling the Dead,” Variety has found out at Haugesund.
Anonymous Content is repping U.S. rights.
Thea Hvistendahl’s feature debut, produced by Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby for Einar Film and currently shooting, will be presented at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair’s Nordic Selection sidebar in September. Its first still has also been shared with Variety.
“We are thrilled to be working with Thea and Einar Film on this exciting genre project, [one] that will be spine-chilling and moving at the same time. We believe it has strong appeal both within festivals and distribution,” observed TrustNordisk’s managing director Susan Wendt.
Based on a novel by acclaimed writer John Ajvide Lindqvist – also behind “Let the Right One In” and short story “Border,” later adapted by Ali Abbasi – it will kick off during an especially hot summer day in Oslo,...
Anonymous Content is repping U.S. rights.
Thea Hvistendahl’s feature debut, produced by Kristin Emblem and Guri Neby for Einar Film and currently shooting, will be presented at Helsinki’s Finnish Film Affair’s Nordic Selection sidebar in September. Its first still has also been shared with Variety.
“We are thrilled to be working with Thea and Einar Film on this exciting genre project, [one] that will be spine-chilling and moving at the same time. We believe it has strong appeal both within festivals and distribution,” observed TrustNordisk’s managing director Susan Wendt.
Based on a novel by acclaimed writer John Ajvide Lindqvist – also behind “Let the Right One In” and short story “Border,” later adapted by Ali Abbasi – it will kick off during an especially hot summer day in Oslo,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
"What separates us from animals?" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a Norwegian post-apocalyptic thriller titled Cadaver, from young Norwegian filmmaker Jarand Herdal. Set in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, the film is about a family of struggling survivors who discover a hotel that entices them with a free meal and a theater play. When they arrive, the director, Mathias (Thorbjørn Harr), introduces the entire hotel as the stage. Attendees are given masks to help separate them from actors, but the play takes an eerie turn when audience members start to disappear. Starring Gitte Witt, Thomas Gullestad, Tuva Olivia Remman, Thorbjørn Harr, Maria Grazia De Meo, Trine Wiggen, and Bente Børsum. Oh my, this is a super freaky concept combined with intense post-apocalyptic dread - scary in all the right wrong ways. Here's the first official trailer for Jarand Herdal's Cadaver, direct from Netflix's YouTube: In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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