The Whore to be re-released

Norway’s first proper exploitation film, The Whore, will be re-released in Germany and Norway for its 10th anniversary, and for the first time in a high-def format. Directed in 2009 by underground genre director Reinert Kiil, The Whore was Norway’s first grindhouse exploitation film where it all came toghether; rape, revenge, blood, violence, sex, naked…

Juleblod preview

After wilderness stalkers and trolls, Christmas may be the new Norwegian horror theme. Reinert Kiil’s Juleblod is the second Christmas related horror film in three years. Have you been naughty or nice? Coming from the director of The House, the horror comedy Juleblod is this year’s most twisted genre entry in Norwegian cinema. Reinert Kiil, a…

The House on disc soon

Reinert Kiil’s nazi-ghost thriller The House makes its way to disc on July 11. Scandinavia’s first movie where Nazis can’t kill or imprison people (or “people”) they don’t like….. After a few DTV sleazers, Reinert Kill released his first theatrical movie The House in April. The ghost story is set during WW2 where two German soldiers and a…

Review: The House

Possibly Norway’s first haunted house movie, The House has many things laid before its feet and picks some of them up. After having directed music videos, shorts, underground cult films and worked as a prop guy on mainstream movies and TV, Reinert Kiil has now “grown up” with his first theatrical directorial feature, the ghost…

The House preview

Having made a name as an underground cult director with DTV exploitation films, Reinert Kiil has now “grown up” with his first theatrical movie, a ghost story set during WW2. We first reported on the chill-thriller The House in 2013, when director Reinert Kiil (known for his two exploitation films The whore and Inside the…

Win The House tickets

In a few days Norway’s new ghost movie The House premieres in theatres. If you are not easily scared, you can win tickets to the pre-premiere in Oslo. The House is Reinert Kiil’s cinema debut after having made short films and two direct-to-DVD exploitation films, The hore (2009) and Inside the whore (2012). Now trying…

The American whore

The whore was Norway’s first grindhouse exploitation film ever. Now it is making its way to American DVD players for the first time, and you’re getting the sequel as an extra. It took until the year 2009 for Norway to produce its first official exploitation film. Perhaps there were no-budget short underground films in the…

The House preview

From the director of The whore and Inside the whore comes The House, an atmospheric horror-thriller set in Norway during World War 2. The 90 minute low budget film will be shot between January 12 and 24, 2014, and will be directed by Reinert Kiil, known for his two exploitation films The whore and Inside…

Inside the whore artwork

During the shooting of the sequel Inside the Whore a lot of mysterious things happened on the set. This is the story that SHOULD have been told… The poster and possibly DVD artwork for the Norwegian exploitation film Inside the Whore has been revealred. The press release goes as follows: “The film is scheduled for…

Review: The whore

Rape. Revenge. Blood. Violence. Sex. Naked ladies. Mutilation. Things you can occasionally find in Norwegian movies, but never all these things in the same film! Until The whore, that is, Norway’s first grindhouse exploitation film ever. It took until the year 2009 for Norway to produce its first official exploitation film. Perhaps there were no-budget…

Review: Inside the whore

The sequel to Norway’s first exploitation film offers a new twist on the genre. And, not only is it a mockumentary about the shooting of a horror film, it is also mocking the Norwegian film establishment. The whore (2009) became a worldwide cult hit and inspired director Reinert Kiil to device a sequel in what…

Win Inside the whore tickets

Inside the whore will debut theatrically in Norway on October 28, and you can win two special tickets to the exclusive screening! Following Norway’s first exploitation / grindhouse / rape-revenge film The Whore (2009), the sequel Inside the whore will be screened at Frogner cinema theatre in Oslo, Norway on October 28th. Anyone can attend,…

The maker of the whores

One of the shortest chapters in the book about grindhouse movies is the chapter about Norway. And it probably only have two entries; The Whore and its yet unreleased sequel, Inside the whore, both directed by Reinert Kiil. Meet the set designer turned exploitation director in this interview. Norway is so far removed from cool…

More of the whore (previews)

Reinert Kiil’s sequel to The whore is scheduled to come out this year – it will be Norway’s second hardcore grindhouse film after the original film came out in 2009. Here are some more stills and art from Inside the whore. The film stars Dagrun Anholt, Isabel Vibe (seen in The whore), Kim Sønderholm, Viktoria…

Inside The Whore preview

The first grindhouse exploitation film to be made in Norway, The Whore from 2009, was released on DVD earlier this year,  and already now the sequel has been shot. Director Reinert Kiil promises to not hold anything back. While The Whore (Hora in its original language) was met with critical coldness in Norway, DVD sales…