Daniel Lehmussaari
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 6, 1976
- Birthplace
- Gällivare, Norrbottens län, Sweden
Daniel Lehmussaari is a film director who was born on the 6th of july 1976 in Gällivare, Sweden. A huge fan of Italian horror movies from the 70's-80's, with a great love of Dario Argento's work, Lehmussaari started playing around with a video camera around 1992 that he borrowed from a local association when he had just enrolled in high school, as there wasn't much to do in Gällivare, and he started to make some low budget action films with his friends. In 1995 he made his first film, a 25 minutes long gore movie called Chainsaw Charle goes to the hospital, together with his friend and fellow horror fan Oden Nilsson who would go on to star in some of Lehmussaari's early films including Death Academy (2005). Around the 2000's Lehmussaari along with Mikael Stridsson and Pauli Raitaniemi founded their own independent film studio Cruzical Film&Media. To this day all of his films have been filmed in and around Gällivare. In the 2010's Felix Nord of Monte Fjanton Creations started a series of reviews for his review show "Felix Recenserar" (dedicated to mostly bad movies that were either originally from Sweden or dubbed into Swedish) where he covered Lehmussaari's movies starting with Death Academy. Felix's reviews and eventual interview with Lehmussaari was one of many contributing factors that helped in bringing in a broader audience to Lehmussaari's films. Around 2016 Lehmussaari met Roger Bergström who's usually the chairman of the Arctic Light Film Festival who is also rather fond of Lehmussaari's work and the Arctic Light Film Festival has showcased his films on multiple occasions and has become a staplein their program. Bergström ended up in contact with organisers of the Dead North Film Festival which he thought Lehmussaari and his team should make a short film for the festival which they did and Lehmussaari ended up winning a best scare award. Lehmussaari is currently working on Death Academy 2 which is set to release in 2025.
Filmography
Death Academy 2 2025
Director, Sound Mixer, Camera Operator, Editor, VFX Artist, Writer
Se Upp För Zombies! 2025
as Eric Norberg
Survival Is Not Enough 2023
as Hotel Zombie, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Special Effects Makeup Artist, Sound Designer, Sound Mixer, Visual Effects Art Director, Visual Effects Supervisor
Luna Project 2023
Editor, Cinematography, Special Effects Supervisor, Producer, Casting, Director, Writer, Special Effects Makeup Artist
Legend of the Lake 2018
Cinematography, Sound Mixer, Director, Editor
- Fasa: The Basement
Fasa: The Basement 2017
Writer, Director, Cinematography, Editor
- Fasa: The Clown
Fasa: The Clown 2014
Editor, Director, Writer, Cinematography
- Fasa: Children of Evil
Fasa: Children of Evil 2012
as The Devil, Editor, Screenplay, Director, Special Effects, Special Effects Makeup Artist
Black Death 2011
Writer, Producer, Director, Editor
- A Drink with Dracula
A Drink with Dracula 2011
Director, Visual Effects, Editor, Production Designer
The Grief 2009
Sound Editor, Editor, Director, Screenplay
- The House of Orphans
The House of Orphans 2008
Writer, Producer, Director
Death Academy 2005
as Mental patient, Production Design, Cinematography, Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
In the Shadow of the Ram 2003
as Räven, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Director
- Back from the Dead
Back from the Dead 2001
Cinematography, Script, Director
Credits from TMDB.