CHRISTMAS BLOOD (a.k.a. Juleblod) *** Norway 2017 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 104 mins A brutal, creepy prologue sets the scene for this festive Norwegian slasher movie: a Santa-suited killer has notched up a prodigious body count over the last couple of decades, targeting law breakers with his own “naughty list” at…
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THE HOUSE (a.k.a. Huset) (a.k.a. The Winter Siege) *** Norway 2016 Dir: Reinert Kiil. 90 mins In this effectively chilling wartime horror, two German soldiers (Frederik Von Luttichau, Mats Reinhardt) capture a gangrenous Norwegian soldier (Sondre Krogtoft Larsen) during an unforgiving Scandinavia winter in WWII. They come across an abandoned…
Artsploitation Films will release Norwegian director Reinert (Christmas Blood) Kiil’s horror film THE HOUSE (original language title, HUSET) this coming March. Artsploitation Films’ president Raymond Murray said, “It may have taken a few years for the film to get to American audiences but I am sure horror fans as well as…
Horror’s Santa-slasher tales mixes with Scandinavian Noir in Norwegian filmmaker Reinert Kiil’s (The House, Whore) grisly CHRISTMAS BLOOD (a.k.a. Juleblod). Christmas is a time of peace, love and family. But not for one Norwegian town as a psychopath dressed in a Santa Claus suit has been terrorizing them for the…