22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

Lake Bodom

Finland, Estonia, 2016: 85 minutes: Canadian Premiere
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Globe Cinema
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Sun, Apr 23 11:30 AM Buy

description

Every camper’s worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, it turns out that not all of them are there to play. Let the killing games begin.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
BFI London Film Festival 2016
Sitges 2016
Cleveland International Film Festival 2017
SXSW 2017

DIRECTOR'S BIO
LAKE BODOM is the third feature from Taneli Mustonen, director of REUNION, the decade’s biggest box office hit in Finland. Mustonen was recently named by Variety as one of the Ten Nordic Talents to Track. He is currently working on his fourth feature, the sequel to REUNION, which will hit cinemas just two months after LAKE BODOM.

press for Lake Bodom

"An ingenious, intelligent, playfully nasty film."
- Screendaily
"A twist-heavy exercise in shock and gore."
- The Hollywood Reporter

details

Horror / Thriller / Suspense

Finnish with English Subtitles
18+ Licensed Screening
85 minutes

special guest

Director Taneli Mustonen & Producer Aleksi Hyvärinen in attendance

credits

Director
Taneli Mustonen

Executive Producers
Fabien Westerhoff
Toni Valla

Producer
Aleksi Hyvärinen

Screenwriters
Taneli Mustonen
Aleksi Hyvärinen

Cinematographer
Daniel Lindholm

Cast
Nelly Hirst-Gee
Mimosa Willamo
Mikael Gabriel
Santeri Mäntylä Helinheimo

Official website:
http://www.donfilms.fi/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/bodom_elokuva/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/bodommovie

community

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Presenting Partners

FinlandiaCulturalAssociation

Community Partners

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