Biography
Jan Mikael Håfstrom, born 1 July 1960 in Lund, is a Swedish director and screenwriter. Håfstrom studied film in Stockholm and New York. After graduation, he worked as an assistant director on the Swedish channel, SVT 1 and as a screenwriter. He was awarded a Guldbaggegatan 2002 screenplay "Leva Livet". He is best known for the 2003 film Evil, and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story 1408.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Slingshot
2024
Director
An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeu...

Stockholm Bloodbath
2024
Director, Executive Producer
In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Me...

King on Screen
2023
as Self
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Outside the Wire
2021
Director
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

The Perfect Patient
2019
Executive Producer, Director
A true and captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system. H...

Escape Plan
2013
Director
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival...

The Rite
2011
Director
Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduc...

Shanghai
2010
Director
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...

1408
2007
Director
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts ...

The Making of Derailed
2006
as Self
A documentary about the making of Derailed (2005).

The Making of Derailed
2006
Thanks
A documentary about the making of Derailed (2005).

Derailed
2005
Director
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their f...

Drowning Ghost
2004
Director, Writer
Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his b...

Evil
2003
Screenplay, Director
Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s re...

Kopps
2003
Screenplay
A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chas...

Days Like This
2001
Screenplay, Director
Vaccuum salesman Evert makes the rounds in a suburban Stockholm apartment building, getting brief glimpses of the various tenants' lives. During the c...

Satans mördare
1995
Director
A description of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme's political work and the murder of him on Sveavägen in Stockholm on February 28, 1986.

Vendetta
1995
Director
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Gover...

Hassel - Botgörarna
1992
Writer, Director
Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.

Hassel - De giriga
1992
Director, Writer
Roland Hassel is chasing a criminal who deals with stolen luxury cars and narcotics.

Hassel - Offren
1989
Assistant Director
Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murder...

Roland Hassel: Kidnapping
1989
Director
The kidnapping of a DA's wife, the murder of several minor criminals and the police finding a large stash of weapons is all in a day's work for crimin...

Hassel - Säkra papper
1989
Assistant Director
A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is ...

Hassel - Slavhandlarna
1989
Assistant Director
A criminal gang use illegal immigrants as labor on the black market.

Träff i Helfigur
1987
Assistant Director
On a shooting range outside of Stockholm in the raw September night something is not right. In the darkness of the marker the ground shows signs of bl...

Lysande landning
1987
Assistant Director
Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invite...

Idag Röd
1987
Assistant Director
Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.