A murderer picking people off one by one in a remote location à la Sleepaway Camp — but the killer’s targets are wry, bleary-eyed bureaucrats instead of teens? Fill that water bottle to the brim and lace up your hiking boots: It’s time to settle in for an outdoorsy night of frights. In The Conference, a team-building retreat — already the stuff of nightmares — turns into a booby-trapped, backstabbing bloodbath when a mysterious killer shows up.
Streaming just in time for Halloween, the horror movie from director Patrik Eklund (We Got This) and writer Thomas Moldestad (Cold Prey) stars Katia Winter, Adam Lundgren, and Eva Melander.
Check it out at the top of this article.
The conference goers:
The hotel staff:
Adam Lundgren as Jonas, Katia Winter as Lina, and Eva Melander as Eva in The Conference
A group of public-sector employees go on a work retreat at a modest resort in the countryside to build morale and celebrate ahead of breaking ground on their new development: a mall that’s sowed division in the small community where it’s being built. The employees are a bit too jaded to tolerate their boss Ingela’s cheerleading, and the team-building exercises make it abundantly clear just how dysfunctional they are together. Lina is particularly weary, having just returned from leave to recover from burnout at the hands of her aggro micromanager, Jonas. In her absence, Jonas took some liberties in making the development deal. While Lina tries to get dirt on Jonas’ workplace corruption, an unknown murderer slaughters hotel staff one at a time. Is this oddball crew of beleaguered workers next?
Yes. It’s based on the bestselling Swedish novel of the same name, Konferensen, by horror author Mats Strandberg, who also executive produced the film.
The film takes place in Kolarsjön, Sweden.
