Swedish boutique genre specialist Mylla Films, the brainchild of Midsummer Nights producer Patrik Andersson and Nordic indie distribution heavyweight Jacob Abrahamson, CEO of NonStop Entertainment, has become a magnet for Nordic genre talent since its splashy launch at Cannes in 2022.
“People with extensive resumes and film credits are reaching out to us,” Abrahamson told us type On the eve of the Finnish Film event at the Helsinki Film Festival industry conference, Mylla Films’ project “Trespassers” (“Inkräktare”) will be promoted to potential co-financiers.
“Invaders” concept art
Courtesy of Mira Films
The latest Swedish star to join the Mylla Films roster is musician Tobias Forge, frontman of Grammy-winning theatrical metal band Ghost, the first hard rock band in four years to hit the top of the album charts in 2025 with “Skeletá”. Forge will make his directorial debut with the fully-funded U.S. music video for “V/H/S/ Mixtape,” the latest installment in the horror anthology series, which will have its world premiere at Beyond Los Angeles on September 30th, followed by Shudder on October 9th.
Starring Gustav Hamasten (Bruno, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Noor El-Refai (Yodescott, Bonus Family), the five-and-a-half-minute video stars the multi-talented Anderson, a seasoned musician himself, as “an old-school story-driven death metal music video.”
“Finish”
Courtesy of Mira Films
“We were contacted in June and managed to turn around Tobias’ part within three months. It was very interesting and, frankly, surprising!” said Abrahamsson, who will release “V/H/S/ Mixtape” in Northern Europe through NonStop Entertainment.
Another recent addition to Mylla Films is Henrik Svensson, the production designer on Ari Aster’s A Midsummer Nightmare and Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself, who is now making his directorial debut with the low-budget The End.
Fully funded by private equity and starring prolific Swedish writer Mattias Ribbing, The End is described by Anderson as “an avant-garde, experimental audio-visual film with a soundtrack that just kills,” with stunts designed by Eos Karlsson of “Kung Fury.” “It’s been a lot of fun trying to make a Jodorowsky film in Sweden. We can’t wait to show it,” said Andersen, who is considering launching a genre film festival in the spring of 2027.
While “The End” and Forge’s “V/H/S/Mixtape” segments are prime examples of Mylla’s core goal of “fertilizing the soil of Nordic genre filmmaking,” the innovative and low-cost turnaround effort was also a response to difficult film financing conditions that forced Mylla’s founders to slightly tweak their original plans.
While Milla’s first novel, “The Bloodsucker,” is set to be released in early 2027 through NonStop Entertainment and will be sold by Charades, high-end projects like Michael Massimine’s gothic western “The Undoing” have been slower to take off. “We set out ambitiously, but the project needed to make sense [financially]”Today everything takes time, so we are more flexible in terms of scope,” Abrahamson admitted.
“We have a [theatrical] “There is a market in Sweden that no one really relies on at the moment, and it’s very difficult to get people to accept the risk analysis of your project,” Anderson added. “Having said that, we have a clear vision and although we are very much part of the Swedish system, we know how to navigate international markets.”
Intruder beware
Mylla Films will be looking to attract partners looking for a high-quality jump thriller based in Nordic folk style when The Intruders is first pitched at the Finnish Film Festival on Thursday.
The first to take part in the €3 million ($3.4 million) project is Scandi distribution group Scanbox. “They were very enthusiastic about it, came on board early and helped us develop the script,” Anderson said.
“The Invaders” is the second feature film after the horror film “Feed”, which won the Audience Award at the 2023 Swedish National Guldbagge Film Awards. The film is co-written with Melina Maraki, the writer of SVT’s hit series “Summer of 1985.”
“One night I was looking out of the window of a run-down old house. A group of men dragged a man into the yard, stripped him naked, tied his legs, and hung him up. I woke up when one of the men raised an ax and prepared to split him in half. That morning I began to write both before and after the nightmare. That’s how The Intruder was born,” Persson said. type.
“The story follows four young men in a failed anti-establishment movement who travel to the vast wilderness of northern Sweden to reconnect with nature. But after a rafting accident leaves them stranded, they discover they are not alone and unwelcome, in a land controlled by a group that has been isolated for centuries with their own horrific beliefs,” the synopsis reads.
“‘Deliverance’ is an intimate inspiration, where big-city people try to connect with nature but mistakenly expect it to be welcoming and beautiful. It’s this premise that attracted us to ‘Trespasser,'” said Abrahamson.
Persson, who has an impressive track record as casting director on more than 30 Swedish productions, including A Man Called Ove, Borg vs. McEnroe, the Netflix series Snabba Cash and The Sessions, is already assembling an A-list cast.
Filming will begin in late summer 2027.
Speaking at this week’s Finnish Film Event and Nordic Genre Lab symposium, partners at Mylla Films said they were “looking forward to international attention on the setting, premise, characters and pacing of this explosive film.”