In the world of Danish true crime, one name looms large over all the rest: Dagmar Overbye. Between 1913 and 1920, Overbye operated a fraudulent adoption agency that claimed to find homes for babies ...

Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is utterly alone in Copenhagen. She assumed her husband, Peter, died in the Great War until he turned up unannounced and horrifically disfigured — she turned him away. No ...

Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of ...

Magnus von Horn never wanted to make a biopic of a serial killer: The Poland-based filmmaker finds that morally strange. But when he was approached to direct a film about Dagmar Overbye, a Danish ...

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...

Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn’s dark period drama “The Girl With the Needle” will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Variety has been given exclusive access to a ...

Cannes: Magnus von Horn’s handsome and captivating Cannes competition title offers rich and assured storytelling, with a twist. There is a rug-pull moment in Magnus von Horn’s handsome and captivating ...

Inspiring or irritating, empowering or exploitative, maternal or manipulative — with many shades of gray in between — female mentorship is a common dynamic in many of 2024’s most affecting stories.

Currently the only horror film on this list to be nominated for an Oscar - though that will likely change next year - The Girl with the Needle is a mesmerising period psychological horror film based ...