This was my third year at Night Visions in Helsinki, and as usual I came back with a lot of work to do. Pictured is the deadpan Finnish crime comedy Ruotsalainen Hetki, which I enjoyed. You can read about that and much else if you trawl the following.

Empire blogs:

The Nordic Genre Invasion (including Ruotsalainen Hetki) –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150907011336/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1490

The festival’s Spanish films: Rec 4, In Darkness We Fall and Hooked Up –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150906213805/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1492

Interview with Marcos Ortiz, the producer and star of In Darkness We Fall –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150906215348/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1494

Interview with Pablo Larcuen, the director of Hooked Up –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150906213636/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1493

The documentaries: The Go-Go Boys, The Otherworld (L’Autre Monde) and Future Shock! –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150907074320/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1491

The Harvest, Let Us Prey and Nuntius –

https://web.archive.org/web/20150905102313/http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/under-the-radar/post/p1495

Interview with director Timo Vuorensola and exclusive trailer reveal for Iron Sky: The Coming Race –

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42690

General round-up feature for Fangoria:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170408024347/http://www.fangoria.com:80/new/festival-report-helsinkis-night-visions-2014/