The fascination of puzzling out a compulsive fire-setter’s motivations keeps “Pyromaniac” absorbing, even if the film itself provides precious few answers to its central riddle. Inspired by actual ...

The fascination with fire is centuries old. Insomnia (1997) director Erik Skjoldbjærg’s latest film, Pyromaniac (Pyromanen), examines this from a Scandinavian perspective set in rural Norway while ...

16/12/2016 - Erik Skjoldbjaerg plunges us into a gripping and fascinating world of flames and shadows hot on the seemingly incomprehensible trail of a pyromaniac ...

The Danes may have cornered the market in police procedurals but the Norwegians are clear leaders in retooling genres for their own back yard (or, here, forest). In the wake of zombie Nazis (Dead Snow ...