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Back in 2018, Bloody Disgusting joined forces with Doppelgänger Releasing to release the Finish heavy metal comedy Heavy Trip. Impaled Rektum has returned in Heavier Trip.

Currently available on Digital, the harder, faster, and louder sequel comes to Blu-ray on May 27.

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Behind the Scenes of Heavier Trip Interview with Babymetal Heavier Trip at Fantastic Fest Image Gallery Theatrical Trailer Teaser Trailer

Extreme metal band Impaled Rektum escapes prison to perform at Wacken, Germany’s iconic music festival. Their wild and perilous adventure into the metal music scene challenges the band’s integrity.

Writers-directors Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio are back at the helm.

Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Anatole Taubman, Max Ovaska, David Bredin, Mats Eldøen, Martti Syrjä, and Helén Vikstvedt star with an appearance by Babymetal.

If you need to catch up, Heavy Trip is streaming on Screambox.

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Impaled Rektum, the world’s foremost symphonic postapocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan Fennoscandian metal band is back with a headbang in Heavier Trip, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s follow up to their 2018 underdog cult classic Heavy Trip. This time the boys have gained a fair bit of notoriety from their earlier shenanigans and are looking to expand their audience, but they’ll have to overcome a few critical obstacles before they can taste the success they desire. We rejoin Impaled Rektum’s metal purist vocalist Turo (Johannes Holopainen), pessimist anti-authoritarian bassist Xytrax (Max Ovaska), fun-loving guitarist Lotvonen (Samuli Jaskio), and livewire drummer Oula (Chike Ohanwe) right where we left off with them in the first film, in jail. Though they are dutifully serving time for the...

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The new Scandinavian produced live-action comedy feature “Heavier Trip”, a sequel to “Heavy Trip” (2018), directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, stars Johannes Holopainen, Max Ovaska, Chike Ohanwe, Samuli Jaskio, Martti Syrjä, David Bredin, Anatole Taubman, Mats Eldøen, Helén Vikstvedt and Sinikka Mokkila, now playing in theaters:

“…’Impaled Rektum’ must escape prison when the guitarist's father falls ill and their family home faces demolition. Shackled by fate and locked up in a Norwegian prison, the band discovers their lead guitarist’s family faces financial troubles.

“They receive an offer to play a major heavy metal festival - ‘Wacken Open Air Festival’ in Germany - but decline due to being imprisoned and unprepared.

“Only the raw power of metal can determine their fate! Prepare for a relentless odyssey of sound and fury…”

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Catching up to three big name festival films that opened Wednesday at the specialty box office to start the extended U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend – Luca Guadagnino’s Queer from A24 starring 007 Daniel Craig; Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria from Netflix, both of which premiered at Venice; and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which won a clutch of awards Cannes including a Special Jury Award.

All three are in limited release (Maria the widest) in the midst of a great, big busy few weeks at the box office with Moana 2 setting records in the wake of Wicked and Gladiator II. Indies are good counter-programming but face massive competition and have a hard time finding screens. If the box office continues to boom with big budget studio fare it will become clearer in the weeks and months ahead whether that lifts all boats,...

In 2018, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s Heavy Trip proved a breakout success for the Finnish film industry, charming viewers around the world with its story of a black metal band from a small town taking a trip to Norway in pursuit of the big time. This sequel reconnects with them in prison, where they are serving time for inadvertently causing an international incident, and goes on to follow them on another quest, this time with the future of the band itself on the line. Unusually – and delightfully – it is every bit as much fun as the original.

Narratively, getting the band out of prison is not an easy task, because they’re resolutely non-violent, generally avoid confrontation and are, on top of that, almost at the end of their sentences. Escape becomes a priority for them, however, when they are offered a chance to perform at Wacken Open-Air...

The boys are back in town! Those loveable goofballs of Impaled Rektum return for an encore performance of “Symphonic Post-Apocalyptic Reindeer-Grinding Christ-Abusing Extreme War Pagan Fennoscandian Metal” in Finnish comedy Heavier Trip. The sequel to the 2018 cult hit Heavy Trip is a laugh out our riot and of full-on assault of metal gags & killer tracks, like a Blues Brothers for headbangers.

Heavier Trip cranks the amps up to eleven and takes Impaled Rektum on a riff-filled journey to save their guitarist’s family reindeer slaughterhouse and maybe—just maybe—achieve true metal glory. The movie leans into its own absurdity and dives headfirst into a Viking longship filled with bad ideas, chaotic plans, and (of course) corpse paint.

“…like a Blues Brothers for headbangers”

Picking up where Heavy Trip left off, the boys of Impaled Rektum– being Turo (Johannes Holopainen), Lotvonen (Samuli Jaskio), Oula (Max Ovaska), and Xytrax (Max Ovaska...

Heavier Trip Photo: courtesy of Music Box Films

In 2018, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s Heavy Trip won fans around the world with its sweet (but loud) tale of a Finnish black metal band travelling to Norway in an effort to reach a festival where they’ve been offered a potentially career-making opportunity – if they have the courage to take it. Now the two directors, both longstanding metal fans themselves, are back with sequel Heavier Trip. A few days ago we got together to discuss it.

“Me and Jukka met in a media school here in Oulu,” says Juuso. “Oulu used to be the metal capital of Finland, and Finland is the metal capital of the world. So we had a lot of metal people around us. The first project we ever did was like a short film, actually. It was a short film called Impaled Rektum. When we finished school we were thinking about,...

The world’s most ferocious death metal band, Impaled Rektum, is back and ready to unleash hell in sequel Heavier Trip. The official trailer highlights some of the raucous heavy metal mayhem, and it also features….Babymetal?!

Bloody Disgusting and Doppelgänger Releasing joined forces back in 2018 to release Heavy Trip, a Finnish black metal comedy about a small-town heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside for a big debut gig in Norway.

Now, the sequel is set to arrive in theaters and on Digital on November 29, 2024.

In Heavier Trip, “Shackled by fate and locked up in a Norwegian prison, the band discovers their lead guitarist’s family reindeer slaughterhouse faces a financial storm. Turo, Lotvonen, Xytraxm and Oula hatch a daring escape plan to help. Desperate for the money, and the chance to perform at the ultimate battleground for metal warriors, Impaled Rektum takes a...

Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren get the band back together in their Finnish metalhead sequel, Heavier Trip. Its a direct continuation of 2018's Heavy Trip, which chronicled the improbable and hilarious rise of amateur thrashers Impaled Rektum. Its nowhere near as serious a film as Jonas kerlunds Lords of Chaos, nor as horror-soaked as Jason Lei Howdens Deathgasm. Laatio and Vidgren approach fandom satirization as a goofball musical comedy, fluent in thumping blast beats and slapstick humor. The sequel might not be as successful as its series original, but thats merely a testament to the Valhallan quality of Heavy Trip.

The first trailer has been released for the upcoming Finnish heavy metal comedy Heavier Trip, the sequel to the cult 2018 film Heavy Trip.

Continuing from the first movie, the story follows the underground extreme metal band Impaled Rektum on their journey to hone their sound, and now they’ve been booked for “the holy grail of metal festivals”: Germany’s Wacken Open Air.

The heavy metal comedy sees the band on a “crazy road trip across Northern Europe” to reach the German fest. As seen in the trailer, Impaled Rektum encounter seedy industry types who try to influence their sound, rival bands, and even Babymetal, who appear in the trailer along with their song “Gimme Chocolate!!”

According to Variety, the sequel takes place a few years after the end of the original film, and finds Impaled Rektum in prison. When the guitarist’s father falls ill and needs financial help,...

The first trailer has been released for the upcoming Finnish heavy metal comedy Heavier Trip, the sequel to the cult 2018 film Heavy Trip.

Continuing from the first movie, the story follows the underground extreme metal band Impaled Rektum on their journey to hone their sound, and now they’ve been booked for “the holy grail of metal festivals”: Germany’s Wacken Open Air.

The heavy metal comedy sees the band on a “crazy road trip across Northern Europe” to reach the German fest. As seen in the trailer, Impaled Rektum encounter seedy industry types who try to influence their sound, rival bands, and even Babymetal, who appear in the trailer along with their song “Gimme Chocolate!!”

According to Variety, the sequel takes place a few years after the end of the original film, and finds Impaled Rektum in prison. When the guitarist’s father falls ill and needs financial help,...

Music Box Films’ genre label Doppelgänger Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to the rowdy, offbeat Finnish comedy “Heavier Trip” by directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, marking the return of the film’s Heavy Metal band Impaled Rektum. Charades is handling world sales rights.

“Heavier Trip” is the follow-up to “Heavy Trip,” which was distributed by Doppelgänger Releasing in 2018. The cast and crew reunite to continue the story of the world’s most dangerous (and charming) metal band, including actors Johannes Holopainen (Turo), Samuli Jaskio (Lotvonen), Max Ovaska (Xytrax), and Chike Ohanwe (Oula).

“Heavier Trip’s” world premiere will be announced imminently followed by a theatrical and home entertainment release this November.

In “Heavier Trip,” the most ferocious death metal band in the world, Impaled Rektum, is incarcerated in a Norwegian prison when they discover that the guitarist’s family is facing significant financial trouble. In an effort to assist them,...

Bloody Disgusting and Doppelgänger Releasing joined forces back in 2018 to release Heavy Trip, a Finnish black metal comedy about a small-town heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside for a big debut gig in Norway. The film is an absolute blast and ended up being a hit in Norway, leading first-time feature filmmakers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren back behind the camera for a sequel, titled Heavier Trip!

Filming on Heavier Trip has wrapped and with the project headed to the upcoming European Film Market, we’ve got some first-look images as well as plot details for ya this week.

The upcoming sequel promises to be “Harder. Faster. Louder.”

Here’s the official plot synopsis…

“The most ferocious death metal band in the world, Impaled Rektum, is incarcerated in a Norwegian prison when they discover that the guitarist’s family is facing significant financial trouble.

One of my favorite films that Bloody Disgusting ever released is Heavy Trip, a Finnish black metal comedy about a small-town Finnish heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside for a big debut gig in Norway.

The film is an absolute blast and ended up being a hit in Norway, leading first-time feature filmmakers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren back behind the camera for a sequel, tentatively titled Heavier Trip.

“That’s a wrap! Second part of Heavy trip is now shot,” the duo shared on Facebook. “And it was amazing journey from beginning to end full of weird and wonderful moments.”

“We had the privilege of working with the best people in the industry from Lithuania, Finland and Germany,” they added. “My deepest gratitude to everyone who put in the insane amount of hours to make this happen.

“I’m waiting so much to...

Exclusive: The Audiovisual Producers Finland (Apfi) today announced the slate of new series its members are bringing to Berlin (scroll down for the full list) alongside a new industry event titled Focus on Finland to be held during the festival.

Focus on Finland will be an official part of the Berlinale Series Market schedule and will feature an industry panel titled ‘Why So Series?’ which will focus on Nordic scripted comedy and drama series.

The panel will take place at CinemaxX Theatre on Potsdamer Platz on February 20 and will feature writer Brendan Foley (The Man Who Died), producer Jackie Larkin (Strike), commissioner Arttu Nurmi (Modern Men), and distribution executive Jean-Michel Ciszewski (Bnei Aruba). The panel will be moderated by Marike Muselaers, Chief Content & Partnerships Officer, Lumiere Group.

“This year we’re focusing on expanding the industry and audience perceptions of what makes Nordic Noir,” said Laura Kuulasmaa, Executive Director of Apfi.

The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition runs September 21-23.

The Finnish Film Affair’s 11th edition (September 21-23) will showcase around 30 Nordic films in development or production and four Finnish TV series projects in early development.

Some of the projects being presented are Selma Vilhunen’s Four Little Adults, a polyamory drama now in post; Katja Gauriloff’s second fiction feature Je’vida, the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language; Teemu Nikki’s fantasy comedy for all ages Snot And Splash; the third instalment in the Niko animations, Niko - Beyond The Northern Lights, by Kari Juusonen...

Released by Bloody Disgusting and Doppelganger Releasing back in 2018, the heavy metal comedy Heavy Trip is getting a sequel, Metal Hammer has announced this afternoon! Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, who co-wrote and co-directed Heavy Trip, are both coming back for Heavy Trip 2, the duo has revealed in a new chat with the website. […]

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In hos latest interview/podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to Juuso Latin & Jukka Vidgren, co-directors of the hilarious & absurd Finnish Black Metal coming of age comedy Heavy Trip, which is available to watch no on Arrow Player: https://www.arrow-player.com

Turo is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.

It’s easy to make heavy metal the punchline in music-based comedies, and it’s to its credit that Heavy Trip, the 2018 Finnish film (also known as A Band Called Impaled Rektum in some territories) directed by metal video veterans Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, now finally available in the UK via Arrow, never does. Metal is absolutely key to this surprisingly gentle comedy centred around authentically brutal music.

Perhaps that shouldn’t be a surprise in a Finnish film: the country has more metal bands per capita than any other. Yet even in Finland, where apparently you can’t throw a drumstick without hitting a guy in corpse paint recording a lo-fi blackened thrash masterpiece in their shed, extreme metal is still outsider music, and it’s outsiderdom that forms the thematic heart of Heavy Trip.

We follow the extremely-small-town life of Turo (Johannes Holopainen), the singer in a...

Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award.

The 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has named the winners of its Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event awards.

The industry showcase was held online this year, with the winners announced yesterday (November 26) following a week of online presentations and networking with around 850 delegates.

Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s second feature film Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award, which guarantees coverage on Screen throughout the project’s lifecycle, at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market.

The €700,000 comedy focuses on two...

It will be the third feature from director Jonas Karasek.

Slovakian project The File (Spis) has won Screen International’s Best Pitch Award at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market at the Tallin Black Nights International Film Festival.

Producer Wanda Adamik Hrycova of Bratislava-based Wandal production, director Jonas Karasek and the film’s Finnish co-producer Oskari Huttu of Lucy Loves accepted the award, which offers editorial coverage throughout the film’s life-cycle.

The €1.8m political thriller, based on real events surrounding one of the biggest corruption scandals in Eastern European history, will be the third feature directed by Karasek.

It continues...

With a stellar line-up of the best in new independent and international horror features and shorts, Scotland's premiere horror film festival - Dead by Dawn - returns to Edinburgh's Film House this April 18th-21st. Our own Simon Read will be in attendance, providing coverage and reviews.

The line-up this year includes the UK premiers of G Patrick Condon's meta-horror Incredible Violence, Rasmus Kloster Bro's claustrophobic Cutterhead and Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren's deadpan metal-head comedy Heavy Trip.

From Germany, Tilman Singer's bizarro demonic chiller Luz will be screening, and from France director Quarxx's ferociously dark Tous Les Dieux du Ciel. Brett Simmons' Summer camp nightmare flick You Might be the Killer - starring Cabin in...

The rowdy Heavy Trip is coming to Amazon Prime on February 28th. Also in today's Highlights: details on the third annual Bloody Gras and the trailer for 1st Summoning.

Heavy Trip Coming to Amazon Prime: "The raucous and rollicking Finnish comedy Heavy Trip, about a small-town Finnish heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside for a big debut gig in Norway, will begin streaming on Amazon Prime at the end of February 2019.

In Heavy Trip, Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is stuck in a small village in the Finnish countryside where his greatest passion is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. But that’s all about to change when the guys meet the promoter of a huge heavy metal music festival in Norway...

“Focus: Nordic Comedy is a tribute to the contemporary Nordic comedy and an attempt to try to understand humor’s social and political role in today’s culture,” says Göteborg fest artistic director Jonas Holmberg. He admits that it was partially conceived as an antidote to the fest’s other focus on the Apocalypse. He says, “The Apocalypse was the first one we came up with. It really engaged us, but we were worried that it might seem too dark or too hopeless.”

He added: Then we realized that the last four out of five winners of the European Film Awards for best comedy came from the Nordic countries; that they were films whose success was not just in their home territories.”

It’s true. Nordic comedies are becoming as popular world-wide as Nordic noir. The Swedish film “A Man Called Ove,” adapted from the popular book by Fridrik Backman and directed by Hannes Holm,...

The 42nd edition of the Goteborg Film Festival will open on a light note with Miia Tervo’s romantic comedy “Aurora,” which marks the Finnish director’s feature debut. Also set to compete in the Nordic and Audentia sections, “Aurora” marks Tervo’s follow up to her critically acclaimed documentary short, “Lumikko,” which was nominated at the European Film Awards in 2010.

The festival will close with “Swoon,” a fantasy-filled love story directed by Stein and Mårlind, the pair behind hit drama series “The Bridge,” “Midnight Sun” and “Shelter” with Julianne Moore. “Swoon” follows the impossible romance between Ninni and John, the young heirs of two rival families who own neighboring amusement parks.

Along with the launch of the Dragon Award for best acting, the Goteborg Film Festival will also host the Audentia Award, a prize created by Eurimages to honor the best female-directed film of the year. The Audentia Award...

Heavy Trip Directed By Jukka Vidgren And Juuso Laatio The Heavy-metal Finnish Comedy Featuring Impaled Rektum Arrives In U.S. And Canada Now on VOD and Coming Soon to DVD November 13 The raucous and rollicking Finnish comedy Heavy Trip, about a small-town Finnish heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside …

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Bloody Disgusting Presents and Doppelgänger Releasing‘s comedy Heavy Trip is officially out of VOD platforms and we’re celebrating with a Twitter takeover with Finnish filmmakers Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren at 3 Pm Ct / 4 Pm Et. Click on over to Twitter and, using the hashtag #HeavyTripTakeover, ask the director’s anything you want about comedy that’s in the vein of Airheads – if the band […]...

After 12 years of not playing any shows, metal band Impaled Rektum hit the road to play their first big hit, but saying things don't go exactly as planned is an understatement. From Doppelganger Releasing and Bloody Disgusting comes Heavy Trip, which is set to be released on DVD on November 13th. For those that don't want to wait until November, Heavy Trip is now available on VOD. If you'd like to learn more, don't forget to check out our exclusive clips and Heather's 4/5 review for the movie we'd highly recommend Daily Dead readers check out.

"In "Heavy Trip" Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is stuck in a small village in the Finnish countryside where his greatest passion is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. But that’s all...

How do you escape the basement to become a star? The seeds are planted in our exclusive clip from Heavy Trip.  The film, directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, follows a young man named Turo (played by Johannes Holopainen) who yearns to become a heavy metal star. Since he lives in rural Finland, the odds don't seem to be in his favor. In our delightful clip, he and his buddies ponder the possibilities.  Our own J Hurtado saw the film at SXSW earlier this year and described it as "a hilarious, loving ode to heavy metal fandom." Check the clip out below to sample its dry flavor.  Distributed by Doppelganger Releasing and Bloody Disgusting, Heavy Trip will open in Los Angeles, New York, Austin,...

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I had been excited to check out Heavy Trip since Heather Wixson gave it a four-star review at Cinepocalypse, and having just seen it myself, I can say for certain that it will warm your heavy metal hearts and is well worth your time. Ahead of the movie's release to Us theaters later this week, we've been provided with exclusive photos and clips for Daily Dead readers to enjoy!

"In Heavy Trip, Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is stuck in a small village in the Finnish countryside where his greatest passion is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. But that’s all about to change when the guys meet the promoter of a huge heavy metal music festival in Norway and decide it’s now or never. Hitting...

Sneak Peek the 'heavy metal' music comedy feature "Heavy Trip", directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, starring Torstein Bjørklund, Antti Heikkinen and Ville Hilska:

"...'Turo' is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland to compete in the hottest music festival in Norway. 

"He and his band mates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. But the guys get a surprise visitor, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival and they decide it's now or never. 

"The band steals a van, a new drummer and a whole lot more, in order to make their dreams a reality..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Heavy Trip"....

"Guys, we're gonna play a festival!" Doppelgänger Releasing has debuted an official trailer for an "offbeat comedy" from Finland titled Heavy Trip, about a heavy metal rock band that goes on a wild road trip to Norway. Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. They land a festival in Norway, and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer in order to make their dreams a reality. Starring Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen, Ville Tiihonen (Hilska), Torstein Bjørklund, and Antti Heikkinen. Well what do you know, this actually looks very funny, the perfect way to make fun of this heavy metal band. Rock on. Here's the official Us...

We've been excited for Daily Dead readers to see Heavy Trip since Heather Wixson gave it a four-star review at Cinepocalypse, and it looks like we won't have to wait long, as the film will be released in select theaters and VOD this October in the Us:

Press Release: Chicago, Il – The raucous and rollicking Finnish comedy Heavy Trip, about a small-town Finnish heavy metal band that blasts its way out of the quiet countryside for a big debut gig in Norway, will open in top markets across the U.S. in conjunction with a nationwide VOD debut this October.

In Heavy Trip, Turo (Johannes Holopainen) is stuck in a small village in the Finnish countryside where his greatest passion is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem is that he and his fellow headbangers have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig.

From directors Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio, the comedy Heavy Trip recently played a sold-out screening at Fantasia 2018. The Finland-Norway production centers on Turo, a sensitive heavy metal frontman who's got stage fright but still wants to rule the music festival circuit with his band. The other members of this band, who've practiced for over a decade but have only just settled on the name Impaled Rektum, provide plenty of comedic character quirks as they journey from making a demo tape to playing the hottest heavy metal festival in Norway. Hilarity ensues as Turo must endure a skevy rival and local lounge singer as the rumors about Impaled Recktum playing the festival circulate. As if that's not bad enough, the father of Turo's love interest is...

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Later this week, the 22nd annual Fantasia International Film Festival is set to kick off in Montreal. Running from July 12th through August 2nd, Fantasia 2018 will play host to over 125 features and 220 short films, with numerous special guests and filmmaking talents on hand to celebrate the very best in genre cinema from all over the world.

As we here at Daily Dead get ready to bring you guys more coverage from one of the most expansive film festivals, this writer thought it would be fun to take a look at a handful of films that Fantasia 2018 attendees are going to want to make sure they check out during the festival, as well as five movies that look primed to knock audiences on their proverbial keisters over the next few weeks.

7 Movies At Fantasia 2018 To Keep On Your Radar:

Anna and the Apocalypse: I had the pleasure of watching many brilliant...

If you would have told me that a Finnish heavy metal road movie featuring corpses and a whole lot of vomiting would be one of greatest feel-good movies of 2018, I don’t think I would have believed you. But, here we are and Heavy Trip is just an absolute delight. Maybe that doesn’t sound very “metal” to you, but directors Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren have crafted an engaging story for anyone who has ever dared to have a dream, or wanted more from their lives, and aren’t about to let fate stop them, and I absolutely adored their endlessly charming tale of Impaled Rektum and their rise to glory. Heavy Trip is a love letter to all the metal heads out there who have long felt misunderstood by the outside world, and the perfect reminder to never give up your dream, regardless of who or what stands in your way.

A big hit when it premiered at SXSW, Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren's Finnish horror comedy, Heavy Trip, has landed a great distro deal that will bring the film stateside.

The film that looks destined for cult classic status will be released in a partnership between Music Box Films' Doppelgänger label and the earth's largest horror website, Bloody Disgusting who are response for a number of hit horror films including the V/H/S series, Southbound and a whole line of Bd Selects titles (including my personal favorite,...

For that segment of the audience who find nothing more heavenly than to split their eardrums to the discordant blast of heavy metal, the wacky Finnish comedy Heavy Trip does not disappoint. Part let's-get-it-together band saga and part road movie, the story arc is awfully familiar, but that doesn't stop it being a rollicking romp.

True raucous music played by strung-out Scandi dudes, Vikings and corpse-stealing may not be everyone's cup of tea. But this first feature, co-directed with joyful enthusiasm by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, packs a lot of fun and will be especially embraced by ...

For that segment of the audience who find nothing more heavenly than to split their eardrums to the discordant blast of heavy metal, the wacky Finnish comedy Heavy Trip does not disappoint. Part let's-get-it-together band saga and part road movie, the story arc is awfully familiar, but that doesn't stop it being a rollicking romp.

True raucous music played by strung-out Scandi dudes, Vikings and corpse-stealing may not be everyone's cup of tea. But this first feature, co-directed with joyful enthusiasm by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren, packs a lot of fun and will be especially embraced by ...

Denmark-based LevelK has acquired international sales rights to Australian filmmaker Mairi Cameron’s sexy psychological thriller, ”The Second” which recently world premiered at Gold Coast Film Festival.

“The Second,” which marks the first Original feature ordered by streaming service Stan, stars Rachel Blake (“Sleeping Beauty”), Susie Porter (“Hounds of Love”) and Vince Colosimo (“Chopper”).

“The Second” follows a successful author riding high on the international acclaim of her first book, a sexually explicit autobiography. While preparing her second novel, the author’s best friend and muse reappears in her life and threatens to reveal the dark secret behind the memoir’s provenance, sparking an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.

Ordered by streaming service Stan, “The Second” was produced by Leanne Tonkes and writer/producer Stephen Lance at Australian company Sense and Centsability and Dust Bunny Productions. Screen Queensland, Mind Blowing World, and The Post Lounge co-financed the film.

They will host market screenings for Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio’s film in Cannes.

LevelK has acquired world sales rights to Finnish comedy Heavy Trip after its successful launch at SXSW.

LevelK will host market screenings in Cannes for the film, which is directed by Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio.

Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho produced for Making Movies on a budget of $3.8m (€3.1m), financed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Yle & Film Camp.

Scanbox Entertainment released the film locally on March 9.

The cast includes Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen & Ville Tiihonen.

The story is about an unknown heavy metal...

Heavy Trip, the story of big dreamers from a small town, had its world premiere last month at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin. In the film, Turo, with his band Impaled Rektum, steal a van, a corpse and a coffin from the local cemetery, a new drummer from the local mental hospital and flee to Norway. As they are escaping Finnish police, they have to face the Norwegian Army in order to get to play their first real gig.

“Two directors from very high up in the North came to us explaining that they had the best comedy ever on an idea basis,” said producer Kai Nordberg during his stop at Deadline’s SXSW studio. The two director he’s referring are Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio, both of whom co-wrote the script with Aleksi Puranen and Jari Olavi Rantala. “After developing the script for four years with them...

Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren’s Heavy Trip blast-beats a warrior’s drum for road-trippin’ comedics and heavy metal odysseys. This is a story of companionship bonded by outsider dismissal; a blossoming “Symphonic Post-Apocalyptic Reindeer-Grinding Christ-Abusing Extreme War Pagan Fennoscandian” metal band ready to break from their basement shackles. Laatio and Vidgren respect Nordic brands of face-melting […]

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Exclusive: Organisers have teamed up with marketing, distribution platform Nordic Genre Invasion on a series of events set to run from September 22-25 in Austin, Texas.

The collaboration will bring pitches, shorts, works-in-progress and panels from creators involved with the likes of The Look Of Silence, The Rat King and Mystery Of The Wolf.

“Nordic Genre Invasion is a perfect collaborator in our new international expansion efforts,” said market director Rodney Perkins. “They represent a number of high-quality genre films with strong crossover potential in English-speaking territories.”

Nordic Genre Invasion board chairman Mikko Aromaa said: “The discussions on the shape and form of our collaboration went on for well over 12 months, and I’m confident that the conclusion we reached is ideal for this pilot year. We are of course hoping that this will be the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship.”

Kati Nuora, manager for international promotion and projects at the Finnish Film Foundation, added:...

The Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event last December went to Finnish producers Kaarle Aho and Kai Nordberg of Making Movies Oy who were pitching Impaled Rektum with the feature debutants Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio [pictured].

The €1.4m production about a young loser trying to overcome his stage fright and other fears by leading the worst heavy band of Finland, Impaled Rektum, is the second project from Helsinki-based Making Movies to have won Screen’s Best Pitch Awtalk ard during the Baltic Event co-production event

Aho and Nordberg had previously been selected with Petri Kotwica’s Rat King which then went on to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012.

The new project has already received two tranches of development support from the Finnish Film Foundation and a € 250,000 commitment from Film Camp Norway.

¨We’d been thinking for a long time that we should do something like a comedy because most of what...

Producers from Finland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland and Russia picked up awards at this year’s 13th Baltic Event co-production market (Nov 24-28) in Tallinn.

Finnish comedy Impaled Rektum by feature debutants Jukka Vidgren and Juuso Laatio was awarded the Screen International Best Pitch Award.

The €1.4m production about a young loser trying to overcome his stage fright and other fears by leading the worst heavy band of Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival in Norway, will be produced by Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho of Helsinki-based Making Movies Oy.

This is the second time that Nordberg and Aho have received Screen’s Best Pitch Award after having previously been selected with Petri Kotwica’s Rat King which then went on to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Other past winners of the award include Alexei German’s Under Electric Clouds, which is understood to be premiering at a major international film festival soon, and...

Now in its 13th edition, Baltic Event will present 13 projects in its 10th Co-Production Market, among others.

Baltic Event has unveiled its project slate for its 2014 edition, taking place during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Nov 26-28.

Now in its 13th year, the event will present 13 projects in its 10th Co-Production Market, eight projects in its script and pitch workshop Powr Baltic Stories Exchange, eight projects in Baltic Bridge East by West (B’Est)producers’ workshop and 17 Baltic and Finnish projects in its Works in Progress and Screenings sections.

Projects for the Co-Production Market come from 11 countires, including Ignas Jonynas’ Blind Spot from Lithuania and Piotr Trzaskalski’s The Wounded Beats from Poland. The full list of projects is as follows:

The 30th Love, producer Julia Mishkinene, Vita Aktiva, Russia, director Angelina NikonovaBlind Spot, producer Kristina Ramanauskaite, Revoliucijos idėja, Lithuania, director Ignas JonynasEternal Road, producer Ilkka Matila Mrp, Matila Röhr Productions...