Daniel Lehmussaari
Directing
Biography
Daniel Lehmussaari is a film director who was born on the 6th of july 1976 in Gällivare, Sweden. A huge fan of Italian horror movies from the 70's-80's, with a great love of Dario Argento's work, Lehmussaari started playing around with a video camera around 1992 that he borrowed from a local association when he had just enrolled in high school, as there wasn't much to do in Gällivare, and he started to make some low budget action films with his friends. In 1995 he made his first film, a 25 minutes long gore movie called Chainsaw Charle goes to the hospital, together with his friend and fellow horror fan Oden Nilsson who would go on to star in some of Lehmussaari's early films including Death Academy (2005). Around the 2000's Lehmussaari along with Mikael Stridsson and Pauli Raitaniemi founded their own independent film studio Cruzical Film&Media. To this day all of his films have been filmed in and around Gällivare. In the 2010's Felix Nord of Monte Fjanton Creations started a series of reviews for his review show "Felix Recenserar" (dedicated to mostly bad movies that were either originally from Sweden or dubbed into Swedish) where he covered Lehmussaari's movies starting with Death Academy. Felix's reviews and eventual interview with Lehmussaari was one of many contributing factors that helped in bringing in a broader audience to Lehmussaari's films. Around 2016 Lehmussaari met Roger Bergström who's usually the chairman of the Arctic Light Film Festival who is also rather fond of Lehmussaari's work and the Arctic Light Film Festival has showcased his films on multiple occasions and has become a staplein their program. Bergström ended up in contact with organisers of the Dead North Film Festival which he thought Lehmussaari and his team should make a short film for the festival which they did and Lehmussaari ended up winning a best scare award. Lehmussaari is currently working on Death Academy 2 which is set to release in 2025.
Known For
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Se Upp För Zombies!
A couple of friends break into their school late one night to solve a mystery hidden in the past, only to realize that they are trapped inside with a masked serial killer.
Death Academy
The year is 2079. After a World war, USA is weakened and Sweden is the first nation to have a permanent base on the moon. However, the scientists soon find a mysterious ice wall and behind it is the answer if we are alone in the universe.
Luna Project
A group of media students are making a documentary about a legend of the Black Widow - a woman who lived the 1900 th century. She was unmarried, but she had two children, a girl and a boy. People in her village couldn't accept her, and they called her a witch. They kidnapped her children and murdered them. The woman was tortured and killed too. Since then the rumors have said that the woman is still around in the village. The students made a trip to the house where the Black Widow lived once...
The Grief
A road movie with zombies. After a virus outbreak the Swedish government uses flight spray to spread out the vaccine to the north part of Sweden. But the vaccine is bad and transform the people to flesh eating zombies
Survival Is Not Enough
A couple with their daughter move into their dream home, what they don't know is that the house has previously been an orphanage! The orphanage was selling child labor or sex slaves. The couple who ran the operation were revealed and executed, but before they died, the woman pronounce a curse,on both the city and the orphanage. The orphanage burned down, but the foundations remained. On that basis, they re-built the house again.
The House of Orphans
A murder victim returns from the grave to seek revenge.
Back from the Dead
In a dangerous town, monsters come out and attacks the residents, but the residents are prepared...
Fasa: Children of Evil
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Death Academy 2
A found footage film about three men who seeks an answer to the mysterious creature in a Deep Arctic lake in the North of Sweden.
Legend of the Lake
A bunch of geology students find an abandoned old mine that they have to investigate. But they're not alone in there ...
Black Death
Kommisarie Gren faces a serial killer who slaughters his victims and taking souvenirs from their bodies. Will he have time to stop the madman before the next one a victim? An amateur film produced in Gällivare, Northern Hillbilly area of Sweden
In the Shadow of the Ram
A man is going out some some trash bags. But is he alone in the dark Basement?
Fasa: The Basement
Hanna babysits little Emelie who sleeps peacefully in her bed. The only strange thing is the big clown doll sitting in the rocking chair...
Fasa: The Clown
As Ante goes out for his regular Friday binge, he gets a unpleasant surprise. The genre of the pub and people's attitudes change with every drink he takes. And it all ends in the deepest horror.