Written by Robert Benjamin
Directed by Alister Grierson
Starring Ben O'Toole, Meg Fraser, Caroline Craig and Matthew Sunderland
Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes

by Nikk Nelson

I don’t know what it is about Northern Europe but, between movies like Midsommar (2019) and the Nighstream featured Bloody Hell (2020), places like Finland are the new Transylvania. I’m not sure who exactly is writing synopses for festival films but Bloody Hell was the second film I came across this season where the initial synopsis really failed to capture the plot. Originally, I thought I would be following a bank robber on the lam in Helsinki after one of his robberies is recorded and goes viral. To my delight, the plot ended up being a lot more complex than that. Rex, played in an outstanding performance by Ben O’Toole, was a witness to a bank robbery.