Heavier Trip

2024 / Action Comedy / 96 min / HD

Impaled Rektum, a band, is in jail but must escape when the guitarist’s father falls ill and their family home/business faces demolition. They receive an offer to play a major festival but decline due to being imprisoned and unprepared. But then things get out of control.

Production: Making Movies (FIN), Mutant Koala Pictures, Heimathafen Film & Media GmbH (DE)

Funding by: Finish Film Foundation, MV Filmförderung

World Premiere: 2024 Fantastic Fest Austin, Texas, USA

Distribution: Nelonen (FIN) Lighthouse (DE)

World Sales: Charade

Script: Jukka Vidgren & Juuso Laatio

Director: Jukka Vidgren & Juuso Laatio

Producers: Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho

Co-Producers: Sebastian Weyland, Manfred Giesecke; Tonislav Hristov

Dop: Anssi Leino

Editor: Kimmo Taavila

Music: Mika Lammassaari

Cast: Anatole Taubman, Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Max Ovaska, Chike Ohanwe, David Bredin, Helén Vikstvedt

Distribution and festival facts

20,000+ admissions at the Finnish box office; film will be released in German, Japanese US Cinemas and many more in 2024 and 2025