Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.
Acting
Björn and Sigurður's painful, lived-in chemistry
Cinematography
Bleak volcanic landscapes as emotional landscape
Direction
Thoroddsen weaponizes negative space beautifully
Director
Erlingur Thoroddsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 18 days on a micro-budget, with the cabin location so remote the crew had to hike equipment in.
One of Iceland's first queer horror films, using the country's mythic isolation to explore repression—fitting for a nation where elves are still taken seriously.
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