''Nightmare'' ( fi, Nightmare – painajainen merellä; literally translated "A Nightmare on the Sea") is a 2012 Finnish
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thriller film
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directed by
Marko Äijö. The film is based on Finnish soap opera television series ''
Salatut elämät
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''; one of the characters of the series, Peppi, is going on a
cruise
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with friends, which is about to take a horrible turn.
The main partner of the film production was the Russian
St. Peter Line
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shipping company, on which the filming was done on the
''Princess Maria'' cruise ship. The film's production budget was about €500,000, of which the
Finnish Film Foundation
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's share was €200,000.
The theme song of the film is the song "Kyynel kuuluu mereen" ("A Tear Belongs to the Sea") by the duo Vague Musik, with
Karoliina Kallio
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as the singer.
The film grossed about €1.1 million,
and it was awarded at the 2013
Jussi Awards
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with an honorary certificate as the audience's favorite. However, the film received a hostile reception from critics. Critics have given it mostly one star, and it has been described as "absurdly bad".
In 2014, the film received a sequel, ''
Nightmare 2: The Nightmare Continues''.
Plot
The newly married 21-year-old Peppi Kuula (
Sara Parikka) goes on a cruise with her new husband Sergei (Tero Tiittanen) and friends. During the ship trip, she meets old acquaintances who remind her of unpleasant things from Peppi's past. Then things start happening on the ship and her friends start disappearing. Peppi realizes that the disappearances are somehow related to the drug-related death of
Tobias Nylund (Hannu Abonce), in which she was involved. The situation becomes difficult; even old friends seem to have a motive to hurt Peppi.
Cast
*
Sara Parikka as Peppi Kuula
* as Heidi Aaltonen
* as Jiri Viitamäki
* as Joonatan Sievinen
* as Sergei Kuula
* as Miro Holm
* as Oona Kiviranta
* as Sampo Kaukovaara
*
Karoliina Blackburn as Tessa Nylund
* as Max Grigorieff
* as Tobias Nylund
See also
*
List of Finnish films of the 2010s
A list of films released in Finland ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Finnish films see :Finnish films
References
External links
Finnish filmat the Internet Movie Database
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2010s
Films
...
* ''
Salatut elämät
''Salatut elämät'' ("Secret Lives", literally "Concealed Lives") is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment bl ...
''
References
External links
*
*
Nightmare' at
AllMovie
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2012 horror films
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