We’ve now released free tickets for two of this year’s special screenings! These events are exclusive to Festival Pass holders, and seats must be reserved in advance.

The themed screening of Rubber (2010) at Toyota Slettum Bil and the Cold Prey (Fritt Vilt) screening featuring a live commentary track with director Roar Uthaug and actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal will both take place on Friday evening. PS!! This particular live commentary screening of Cold Prey is in Norwegian language only.
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To gain entry, attendees must present both their free ticket and their Festival Pass.

These free tickets are available to reserve now. And there are only 30 (!) tickets available for each screening.

Go, go, go! 🎟️🔥👻

40 horror films in 5 days! The Ramaskrik feature film programme is now complete, and it proves that 2026 is an outstanding year for horror cinema.

It has taken us nearly a year to find the films and secure them for screening at the Ramaskrik Film Festival in Oppdal, October 14–18. Our nine-member programming committee has watched more than 200 films from around the world and selected what we believe is an exceptionally strong and exciting line-up, ranging from undiscovered gems to highly anticipated titles receiving their Norwegian premieres at Ramaskrik.

We can't wait to welcome you all in just a few weeks' time.

Welcome to the Ramaskrik Film Festival, October 14–18!

This year’s opening film will have its first and exclusive screening in Norway at the Ramaskrik Film Festival.

Get ready for an intense cinema experience. Imagine being on a solo dive, only to be swallowed by a whale, together with an angry squid. Whalefall is based on Daniel Kraus’ novel from 2023 of the same name. It’s a kind of chamber piece, but set inside a chamber few of us know particularly well, with a soundscape that make Whalefall a truly sweaty experience.

If you haven’t read the book, we won’t spoil what happens, except to say that it involves a tricky situation, very little oxygen, entrails, and plenty of drama. This one really has to be seen on the big screen!

Whalefall is our official opening film and will be screened on Wednesday evening at 8:15 PM. This will be its one and only exclusive screening at the festival.

FYI: The first films of the festival start as early as 4:00 PM on Wednesday, October 14. The full programme schedule will be published on September 23 or 24.

Director Ben Wheatley will be attending the Ramaskrik Film Festival this October. Ramaskrik will screen his new roadshow-distributed film Bulk as well as the modern classic Kill List from 2011.

Ben Wheatley is an award-winning and critically acclaimed director, screenwriter, editor, and producer with deep roots in genre cinema. Ramaskrik has followed Wheatley's career since Kill List was screened as part of the Ramaskrik section at the Kosmorama Film Festival in 2012. We later screened both ABCs of Death in Oppdal in 2012, Sightseers in 2013, and most recently In the Earth in 2021.

“We have followed Wheatley throughout the years and have always looked forward to his next film to see what he comes up with. We know it will be genre cinema, that it will hover somewhere on the edge of horror, and that it will have a style entirely its own,” says Festival Director Morten Haagensen.

His filmography spans an impressive range of genres, from the more distinctive works Down Terrace, A Field in England, and High-Rise to more commercial productions such as Free Fire, Rebecca and Meg 2: The Trench.

At this year’s Ramaskrik, October 14th – 18th, audiences will experience the full breadth of Wheatley’s work, from his breakthrough film Kill List, a harrowing and realistic folk horror classic, to the highly playful, entertaining, and experimental sci-fi action film Bulk (2025).

Bulk has been released theatrically in the United Kingdom through a travelling roadshow, with Ben Wheatley and producer Andy Starke appearing in person. Now Ramaskrik becomes another stop on “The Never Ending Bulk Tour” in Oppdal, with Wheatley attending the festival. This is something to look forward to.

Spiders, vertigo, Norwegian cult films, anniversaries, Spanish horror, and much more. The first 15 films in this year's Ramaskrik programme have been announced. And this is not even half of the programme, which will continue to be filled with films and guests right up until mid-September.

A year of horror movie watching by our fantastic programming committee is drawing to a close. We are continuously lifting the lid on our horror film cauldron, and it tastes very good this year, as always.

Crawlers, Fall 2 and Friday The 69th

One of the most intense trailers we have seen lately is the spider horror film Crawlers, and it is sure to make audiences itch at Ramaskrik. The same goes for the sequel to the 2022 acrophobia thriller Fall. We promise a dizzying ride in Fall 2: Deadpoint. Friday The 69th is an ultra-low-budget B-movie horror tribute, shot entirely on an iPhone and partly in the same house where The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was filmed. Expect bloodshed, great fun, and an exceptional amount of silliness!

Gaua and They Always Come at Night

Spain is a country with an enormous horror film scene and countless festivals. This year, we have several Spanish films in the program, starting with Gaua (The Night). If you are interested in folklore, history, witchcraft, and sorcery, this is the film for you! They Always Come at Night radiates slow-burning Gothic melancholy and mystery. And there is more Spanish horror to come, we promise.

Cold Prey anniversary celebration

This year's major Norwegian anniversary celebration is none other than Cold Prey from 2006. Roar Uthaug's classic mountain slasher will be screened, dissected, and celebrated at Ramaskrik. Uthaug will be attending, as will lead actress Ingrid Bolsø Berdal.

Norwegian cult movies

Speaking of Norwegian film, the podcast Norsk kultfilm will of course be visiting as well. We will screen the 1976 thriller Angst, meet Severin Eskeland, and watch his first amateur films Slakt and Slakt 2. Last but not least, there will be a live podcast episode about Cold Prey featuring Roar Uthaug and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal.

Grind and Boxcutter

In Grind, we are presented with four interconnected stories drawn from a dystopian present. Grind is a black comedy that a few years ago would have been considered dystopian fiction, but which, in today's United States, may strike many as only a slight exaggeration. Boxcutter is a painful and vicious film, in many ways a love child of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the French New Extremity movement. After a slow build-up, the story explodes in its second act, delivering top-shelf discomfort and brutality.

The Devils

Ramaskrik brings you the first screening in Norway of The Devils from 1971. A long-awaited newly restored and uncensored version of Ken Russell's wild and controversial classic is finally ready to be seen.

Amsterdamned II, Bowels of Hell and Fifteen

Director Dick Maas still has a bloody touch and a confident visual style. Amsterdamned II picks up the thread from one of the truly great Dutch cult films and sits somewhere between sequel and reboot. Bowels of Hell marks the return of toilet horror, now a firm Ramaskrik tradition, and this year's rowdy contribution comes from Brazil. It is bloody, humorous, and above all political. Bon appétit! Fifteen is a Mexican coming-of-age body horror film with as much playful charm as blood and gore. If you enjoyed Ginger Snaps (2000) or Eighth Grade (2018), Fifteen is definitely one to catch.

Rubber

We will be leaving the cultural centre and heading to Toyota Slettum Bil for a special screening of the tire-horror film Rubber in the most fitting surroundings imaginable, right among tires and cars. Rubber was made by French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, who is no stranger to Ramaskrik thanks to his film Smoking Causes Coughing. This event is presented in collaboration with Trondheim Film Society.

Ramaskrik og Norsk kultfilm fortsetter å grave i norsk skrekkhistorie. I år skal vi dykke ned i 70-talls skrekk med spillefilmen Angst, få oppleve Severin Eskelands spede start som filmskaper og få en live podkast med historien bak 20 års jubilanten Fritt vilt.

Norsk kultfilm er her på fjerde året, og vi kjenner de som strålende servitører av filmhistorie. Duoen Aleksander U. Serigstad og Kristian Serigstad Jensen har et herlig kunnskapsrikt, og noe nerdete blikk på filmer vi muligens ikke har sett og som har noe kultete over seg. De har også evnen til å få frem de gode pratene om filmer vi kjenner godt, men gjerne skulle visst mer om.

Angst er en av få norske filmer vi lett kan putte inn i skrekksjangeren i perioden mellom De dødes tjern (1958) og Villmark (2003). Oddvar Bull Tuhus sin noe sleazy thriller fra 1976 er en slags norsk Black Christmas uten jul. 70-talls estetikken vil bli en flott kino-opplevelse med intro av Norsk kultfilm

Severin Eskeland har gitt oss filmene Snarveien og Lyst, en rekke kortfilmer og er nå i produksjon med spillefilmen Heks. Nå skal vi, sammen med Severin, se på hans første skritt som filmskaper med Norsk kultfilms godtepose Severins Slasher-retrospektiv. I form av amatørfilmene Slakt (1998) og Slakt 2 (2000)

Årets livepodkast er viet vår 20 års jubilant Fritt Vilt. Sammen med filmens regissør Roar Uthaug og hovedrolleinnehaver Ingrid Bolsø Berdal skal vi få hele historien på en times tid i foajéen i Oppdal kulturhus.

Norsk kultfilm er en podkast av Aleksander U. Serigstad og Kristian Serigstad Jensen. De fokuserer på de obskure kapitlene av norsk filmhistorie og har siden starten i 2021 intervjuet en rekke folk fra den norske filmbransjen som: André Øvredal, Helge Jordal, Karin Julsrud, Patrik Syversen, Sigrid Huun, John M. Jacobsen og mange flere.

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The films at Ramaskrik are presented in two short film programs selected by our programming committee and will be judged by the following jury:

Astrid Thorvaldsen is a genre-loving screenwriter and director based in Trondheim. In 2014, she attended Ramaskrik with the horror film Utburd, which she directed as part of her master's degree in film and video production at NTNU. Her short films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including Fantasia, Bucheon (BiFan), and Flickerfest.

Knut Nærum is an author, playwright, and cartoonist. He has published over thirty books across various genres, primarily crime and science fiction, with humor as a common thread. In the horror genre, he has written the novel Monster (2007), the zombie puppet show Is (2012), and the comic book Svanger (2026), illustrated by Karstein Volle. Nærum was a regular panelist on the weekly NRK satire show "Nytt på nytt" from 1999 to 2015.

Jasper Sharp is an author, critic and filmmaker known for his work on Asian cinema. He was the co-founder (with Tom Mes) of the Japanese film website Midnight Eye. His books include The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2004), joint-written with Mes, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008) and The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011). He has directed the documentaries The Creeping Garden (2014), a documentary about plasmodial slime moulds co-directed with Tim Grabham, The J-Horror Virus (2023) with Sarah Appleton, and Splatterfest Exhumed (2024).Now he will turn his attention to European short films as a member of our Méliès d’Argent jury.

For Ramaskrik, it is important to have the jury present during the festival, in the cinema, to watch the films as they are meant to be seen. Furthermore, it is a pleasure for us to host good friends of genre film who are well-qualified to evaluate the short films.

Da Fritt vilt ble sluppet på kino fredag 13. oktober 2006 kickstartet det filmeventyret om Roar Uthaug, stjerna Ingrid Bolsø Berdal og ikke minst produksjonsselskapet Fantefilm. Hele 257.000 nordmenn så filmen på kino. Til sammen ble trilogien sett av hele 677.000 på kino i Norge og fikk en internasjonal reise som viste frem den norske fjellheimen for hele verden.

– Fritt vilt er en milepæl i norsk skrekkfilm, helt i starten av den nye norske bølgen av skrekk og noe vi i Ramaskrik elsker å leke med 20 år etter. Oppdal er kanskje ikke like isolert, men har omgivelsene med fjell, snø, ski og kulde. Omtrent nøyaktig 20 år etter inviterer vi til film og fest på Skifer Hotel, for anledningen dekorert i riktig stil og med folk fra filmen på besøk, sier festivalsjef Morten Haagensen.

Filmen skal selvsagt vises slik filmer best vises, på kino!
– Fritt vilt 20 år etter i en kinosal blir skikkelig stas. Ingrid Bolsø Berdals rolle i Fritt vilt er ikonisk i norsk film. Å se denne med Berdal og regissør Uthaug til stede blir eksklusivt. Dette blir den perfekte ramma til visningen, og en unik mulighet til å få innblikk i historien bak filmen. sier Haagensen

Også regissør Roar Uthaug ser veldig frem til feiringa på Oppdal.
– Jeg gleder meg veldig til å feire 20-årsjubileet til Fritt vilt sammen med andre skrekkfilmfantaster på Ramaskrik i høst. Ikke bare gir Oppdal den perfekte rammen til vår film fra fjellheimen, men Ramaskrik er også en festival som ligger mitt hjerte nær, så jeg kunne ikke drømt om et bedre sted å feire filmen, sier Uthaug.

Etter Fritt vilt fortsatte Uthaug og Berdal samarbeidet med middelalder-actionfilmen Flukt, før Uthaug lagde blockbustere som Bølgen, Tomb Raider og ikke minst Netflix-hitene Troll og Troll 2. Nå jobber Uthaug med ny skrekk, denne gangen backpacker-horror i Thailand, men også med nye nordiske prosjekter. Mer om dette får vi kanskje høre om på Ramaskrik.

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal har en lang og innholdsrik skuespiller-karriere innen film og TV, i Norge og internasjonalt. Innen skrekk selvsagt den strålende oppfølgeren Fritt vilt 2, men vi finner henne også på rollelista til Chernobyl Diaries, ABCs of Death 2, Hellfjord og Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Og ikke minst populære TV-serier som Westworld, La Palma og sist Jo Nesbøs Harry Hole. Hun har etablert seg som en av de virkelig store stjernene i Norge. Vi må selvsagt trekke frem de trønderske produksjonene Alle hater Johan og Kvinner i for store herreskjorter.

Fritt vilt-jubileet vil foregå fredagen under festivalen – 16. oktober.

Og DU er velkommen!

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