Marko Mäkilaakso (also known as Mark Hillvalley; born 23 February 1978) is a Finnish

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and film director. He has directed music videos for Uniklubi,

Tiktak , also known as Tik N' Tak, was a Finnish music group consisting of six musicians from northern Helsinki. The band was formed in Pohjois-Helsingin Bändikoulu (''Northern Helsinki Band School'') and signed to Universal Music in 1999, when the ...

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, Indica and

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, among others. Uniklubi's music video "Huomenna" won the Best Domestic Music Video prize at the 2005 Emma Awards and Indica's music video "Vuorien taa" was nominated for Best Music Video at the 2005 Muuvi Awards. His first feature film, '' War of the Dead'', was released in 2011, and after that, Mäkilaakso directed the Syfy-produced

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, '' Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman'', also released under the title ''Yeti''. In 2014, Mäkilaakso was supposed to direct fourth film of

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's the ''Mega Shark'' series, '' Mega Shark vs. Kolossus'', but shortly before the start of shooting, he abandoned the project, and instead, Mäkilaakso directed his next film, the 2018 action film ''

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'', based on the 1989 video game by the same name. In 2019, Mäkilaakso directed episodes for the third season of the ''Bordertown'' series. In 2021 Mäkilaakso was producing a horror comedy '' The Creeps'', starring

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. and

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Selected filmography

* '' War of the Dead'' (2011) * ''

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'' (2013) (also known as '' Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman'' * ''

It Came From the Desert ''It Came from the Desert'' is a 1989 action-adventure game by Cinemaware. It was originally released for the Amiga, but later ported to MS-DOS, as well as released in distinctly different forms to consoles. The TurboGrafx-16 release is distinc ...

'' (2018) * '' Helsinki Syndrome'' (2022)

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