Over de film
"Earlier this year I accompanied my girlfriend during one of her assignments," tells director Niels Bourgonje. "She was asked to shoot Skogskyrkogarden, one of the few cemeteries that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While standing there in the middle of the dense forest, I felt like I was the character in a horror film. Even though the site has a tranquil beauty, it felt wrong to be there. Just the idea of shooting photographs at a graveyard felt macabre. I started to feel like maybe we were taking something with us, while taking the pictures."
"I’ve thought a lot about why I decided to tell a horror story in Skogskyrkogarden. The answer is quite simple. I’m attracted to films that try something different and go against genre tropes. In a horror film you would expect a nighttime setting. But I was really interested in telling a scary story set during the daytime. The claustrophobic feel of the dense forest of Skogskyrkogarden gave me a sense of unease. Woodland Cemetery is not about jumpscares, but about giving the viewer the feeling that anything can happen. I’m not interested in blood and gore, but purely in atmosphere. That’s what I love about the horror genre."
