MANHUNT/ROVDYR Norway
Norway, 2008, Horror / Survival, France Premiere 78’, colour, 35 mm,
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Director : PATRIK SYVERSEN
Producer : TORLEIF HAUGE Screenplay : PATRIK SYVERSEN, NINI BULL ROBSAHM Photography : HAVARD BYRKJELAND |
Music : SIMON BOSWELL
Editing : VESLEMOY B. LANGVIK Special Effects : MARTIN ANDERSON |
| Cast : HENRIETTE BRUUSGAARD, LASSE VALDAL, JORN-BJORN FULLER-GEE, NINI BULL ROBSAHM | |
Synopsis
1974 … four young people in a Volkswagen van set out on a camping weekend in the Norwegian forest, listening to 70s hits. After a stopover at a roadside café, where they encounter the hostel local yokels, but they nevertheless give a ride to a strange young girl. Her nervousness seems to be a harbinger of things to come.
A flat tire forces them off the road at the forest edge, where they are kidnapped and knocked out by hunters. When they awaken, they quickly realise that the grisly sound of the hunting horns resonating through the forest are meant for them. They are the game.
A direct tribute to the horror films of the 1970s, Manhunt takes its place along side of its big brother, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Thanks to a camera that switches back and forth from close-ups of the hunted to aerial views of a dense and hostile nature, the distress of the urban young confronted with rural predators shows that our survival instincts leave much to be desired.
PATRIK SYVERSEN
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Patrik Syversen attended the Norwegian Film and TV Academy. After starting out with three genre shorts, he directed Manhunt, his first feature film, at age 25. A fan of genre cinema, he knows his repertoire: Italian horror films from the 1970s and the 80s through to John Carpenter, not forgetting the obligatory Texas Chain Saw Massacre. |
World sales : Trust Film Sales, Denmark www.trust-film.dk
Distribution : Norwegian Film Institute, Norway www.nfi.no
Site : www.rovdyrfilm.no
We thank the Permanent Representation of Norway to the Council of Europe and the Royal Nowegian Embassy in Paris for supporting this film.