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Some things that scare us are completely supernatural, even unreal, like demons, ghosts, and the rest of the entities. Their mechanics works on mythological archetypes and symbolic potency. The others, like physical and psychological conditions, are not just completely natural and real, but also quite likely to hit us, and the horror comes from that clear relatability. In Mattias Johansson Skoglund’s sophomore feature (and his first solo work as a feature film director) we get both types of horror in a very elegant package. Fresh from the premiere at SXSW, it was screened at Haapsalu.

Small town retiree Monika (Anki Lidén) has fallen at home and suffered a stroke. Exhibiting signs of dementia, she is not able to live on her own any more. Enter her younger son Joel (Philip Oros), a not-so-successful musician based in Stockholm who takes on the tasks of putting her in a nursing home and preparing.

The Home arrives at a moment when horror has begun to wrestle earnestly with themes of memory and mortality, trading out jump‑scare excess for quiet, creeping unease. From its opening sequence—an off‑screen plea interrupted by a sudden fall—the film signals that this is less about overt shocks and more about what lingers in the mind’s dark corners.

Originally produced in Swedish, The Home is directed and co‑written by Mattias J. Skoglund, who adapts a novel by Mats Strandberg. Skoglund’s screenplay places us in the immediate aftermath of Monika’s stroke and worsening dementia, as her son Joel returns home to move her into Ekskuggan, an assisted‑living facility whose institutional calm conceals something deeply unsettling.

Monika’s confusion—she repeatedly insists she must return to her late husband—soon proves to be more than a symptom of her illness. Joel, portrayed with weary resolve by Philip Oros,...

As if the upcoming edition of the Overlook Film Festival , taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana, wasn’t stacked enough, the festival announced today the full schedule, including some surprise new films and live events.

The full festival schedule can be found at overlookfilmfest.com/schedule.

The new additions to the lineup bring the festival total to 56 films (34 features and 22 shorts) from 15 countries, as well as twelve live events and four immersive experiences, making this the largest Overlook lineup in the festival’s nine year history.

“This year’s giant lineup brings into focus all of the ways we love to be scared, regardless of what flavor of spooky is your jam” said Sheryl Santacruz, festival director of The Overlook Film Festival. “We can’t wait to join with the greatest, most dedicated genre fans in the world to celebrate this sensation that we all love in ways that we never imagined possible,...

As populations’ median ages continue to rise — and the future looks increasingly hazardous for all age groups — more movies are touching on senility, dementia, elder abuse and other topics that not long ago rarely got any screen airing. That includes the horror genre, which has typically been focused on terrorizing nubile youth. Joining such recent efforts as “The Taking of Deborah Logan,” “The Manor” and “The Rule of Jenny Pen” is “The Home,” a Swedish-language chiller in which a stroke victim moves into a care facility — but not alone, as unfortunately the few moments she spent clinically “dead” enabled a malevolent spirit to return with her from “the other side.”

This SXSW Midnighter premiere is likely to attract remake offers, though the heightened jump scares and violence they’ll likely pile on would only dilute what makes Mattias J. Skoglund’s sophomore feature so effective. Its eerily quiet approach to...

SXSW is officially underway, bringing a densely packed slate of exciting new genre premieres. That includes eerie Midnighter The Home, based on the novel by horror author Mats Strandberg (The Conference).

Watch our exclusive festival teaser below ahead of the film’s premiere this Monday, March 10, which gives very little away in terms of plot but emphasizes an unsettling atmosphere and scares.

The fest’s official synopsis: “Many years after leaving the small town behind, Joel returns to move his mother Monika, a home for the elderly struggling with dementia. However, Monika’s health takes a turn for the worse soon after her arrival. She experiences terrifying visions of her late husband, Joel’s abusive father, and begins exhibiting violent behavior. Joel begins to believe that something malevolent and supernatural has taken control of his mother. But with his own history of substance abuse and mental instability, can he trust his own perceptions?...

This year’s SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, has unveiled its lineup this afternoon and it’s another insanely packed year for horror premieres.

While the Midnighter section is dedicated to the genre lovers, SXSW 2025 has filled its Headliner section and beyond with buzzy, highly anticipated titles including Flying Lotus‘s sci-fi horror movie Ash, Christopher Landon‘s ode to Brian De Palma in Drop, and A24’s Death of a Unicorn. Also look for Clown in a Cornfield, the film adaptation of Adam Cesare’s YA slasher novel.

Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2025’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.

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Ash

Director: Flying Lotus, Producers: Nate Bolotin, Matthew Metcalfe, Screenwriter: Jonni Remmler

A woman wakes up on a distant planet...

The 32nd edition of SXSW running March 7-14 in Austin, Texas, will open with the Apple TV+ series The Studio starring Seth Rogen and brings world premieres of new films from Nicole Kidman, Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, and Paul Rudd.

Rogen stars as the frazzled head of fictitious Continental Studios in The Studio, which debuts on the platform on March 26.Rogen co-directed with Evan Goldberg, and co-wrote with Goldberg and others. The cast includes Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, and Katheryn Hahn, with cameos from A-listers.

Anticipated feature highlights include Headliners selections Holland from Amazon Studios, a thriller starring Kidman and...

The film will premiere at Venice’s Critics’ Week.

TrustNordisk has boarded international sales rights to the drama Dogborn, the debut feature of Swedish writer/director Isabella Carbonell.

Dogborn will have its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week.

The story is about a refugee brother and sister living in Sweden; they are homeless and invisible and dream of a better future. A rift occurs between them when they get caught up in the underworld of human trafficking.

Silvana Imam, a popular Swedish rapper, makes her film debut as the sister, with Philip Oros (Blinded) playing the brother. The cast also...

Stockholm-based Momento Film, the company behind “Tiny King for a Day” and Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market-bound work in progress “Dogborn,” has confirmed start of production and E.U. partners on Daniel Espinosa’s “Madame Luna,” its biggest project ever.

Principal photography in Sicily and Calabria is set to begin May 5 on the €5 million ($5.6 million) refugee drama, penned by Maurizio Braucci (“Gomorrah”) and Suha Arraf (“Lemon Tree”) from an idea by Binyam Berhane.

David Herdies is producing for Momento Film, with co-production partners Marco Alessi and Massimiliano Navarra of Italy’s Dugong Films, Peter Nadermann of Germany’s Nadcon and Katja Adomeit and Pål Røed of Denmark’s Adomeit Film.

The film marks Chilean-born Espinosa’s return to Swedish-language filmmaking, after a string of Hollywood movies including “Safe House,” “Life” and Sony Pictures’ upcoming Spider-Man spin-off “Morbius”.

“It’s going to be interesting and inspiring to enter a cinematic tradition that really was my roots,...

Swedish documentary specialist Momento Film, the company behind “Tiny Tim: King for a Day” and Cph:Forum work in progress “Stories from the Debris,” is ramping up its narrative feature film output.

A decade after he founded his outfit, helmer/producer David Herdies has propelled Momento Film among Sweden’s top creators of cutting-edge documentaries and shorts. Award-winning pics to his credit include “Ouaga Girls” (2017), “Hamada” (2018), “Transnistra” (2019), and most recently Johan von Sydow’s docu biopic “Tiny Tim: King for a Day,” currently touring the U.S., courtesy of Juno Films. Herdies also produced and co-helmed with George Götmark the buzzed about Visions du Réel competition entry “Bellum: The Daemon of War,” and is spotlighting Jennifer Rainsford’s works in progress documentary “Stories from the Debris” at this week’s Cph:forum, industry sidebar to Denmark’s Cph:dox fest.

While keeping a solid foundation in documentary films, Herdies — a former European Film...