Encounters (2014) Online
November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Kristian Fjord | - | Fjord |
| Jacob Wagner Guldager | - | Anders |
 | Casper Sloth | - | Alex |
 | Signe Mathilde Sørensen | - | Janne |
| Claus Vedel | - | Hunter 1 |
The military base where the film crew seeks shelter is actually a real abandoned Swedish military base located on a deserted island in northern Sweden.
Soon after the script was completed, events in the real world started paralleling the story. In the script, the film crew hears strange noises from the sky. Shortly after finishing the script, many viral videos of people filming the sky with strange noises appeared on YouTube. This was not a part of a viral campaign from the producers. After the script was finished, hackers actually hacked the Swedish Security Service, Säpo. The design of the 'thing' that attacks the film crew was originally inspired by a tick. The director was bitten by one while location scouting. He was hospitalized for 10 days with Lyme disease before the planned shoot and was close to death. The shoot was postponed for 15 days. At the military base where the film crew seeks shelter, a real surveillance camera was programmed to start recording if there was any movement. The camera started recording at 1:00 a.m. even though there wasn't any explained movement. In the recordings, a strange white light appears. In the original script, the crew was attacked by the thing with the red light at 1:00 a.m.
Some of the footage shot in the military base has unexplained orbs appearing in frame. A paranormal investigator that saw the footage is convinced that it's supernatural.
Director Anders Johannes Bukh had to play the driver in the first scene in the car. There was no other room for him to direct from than the front seat.
Nearly all the footage is shot by the actors themselves.
The project had a bunch of setbacks. When test filming, all of the crew's equipment was stolen. The director got Lyme disease and injured his leg. A few days before shooting, the original location at the base was closed due to the risk of collapsing tunnels. Several hard drives crashed. And 3 flooding's destroyed much of the crew's equipment.
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