Biography
Tommy Wirkola (born 6 December 1979) is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, editor and producer. He is known for his film work in hybrid thrillers that combine horror, action and satire. For his hybrid genre-focused work, he has won numerous awards and nominations. Dead Snow (2009) and Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) were selected by the Sundance Film Festival. Dead Snow won the Toronto Dark Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for four Scream Awards including Best Horror Film....
Known For
Complete Filmography
Violent Night 2
2026
Director
The sequel to the 2022 film. Plot TBA.
Shiver
2026
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Plot TBA. Will center around a shark attack.
Afterburn
2025
Writer
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated...
Spermageddon
2025
Director, Writer
Two narrative threads - one is an emerging love story between two awkward teens, Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time and the other is...
Violent Night
2022
Director
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surpr...
Leave
2022
Producer
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she get...
The Trip
2021
Writer, Director
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can...
Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta
2017
Writer
The crazy fisher man Kurt Josef, an early pensioner, and his odd musical friend Rock Fjellstad has landed a job at Hurtigruta, only to discover that s...
What Happened to Monday
2017
Director
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the go...
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
2014
Writer, Director
The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish their mission, but our hero is not willing to die. He is gathering his own army to give them a final figh...
Kill Buljo 2
2013
as Sid Wisløff
Jompa Tormann is back, and everything is better, except the humor, which is even worse than in the first movie of vengeance.
Kill Buljo 2
2013
Writer, Executive Producer
Jompa Tormann is back, and everything is better, except the humor, which is even worse than in the first movie of vengeance.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013
as Deputy #4 (uncredited)
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them...
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013
Director, Producer, Writer
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them...
Help, We Are Graduating!
2011
Executive Producer
Markus and Robert is finally at ways end. 13 years of school is almost over and all they have learned is soon to be rinsed away with a graduation part...
Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch
2010
as Pablo (voice)
Is The Fjord Witch superstition, or is it true that Satan's bride lives across Melkelva in the forest by Grytefjord? Does Tordenskjold find himself or...
Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch
2010
Director, Writer, Editor
Is The Fjord Witch superstition, or is it true that Satan's bride lives across Melkelva in the forest by Grytefjord? Does Tordenskjold find himself or...
Empty Barrels
2010
as Gjørme-Knut
Three small-time criminals finally get the chance to climb the ladder - but manages to mess it all up in royal manners....
Dead Snow
2009
as Dying Zombie (uncredited)
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi sold...
Dead Snow
2009
Director, Writer
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi sold...
Kill Buljo
2007
as Sid Wisløff
Jompa Tormann and his guests and family are brutally gunned down during an engagement party. Sami- and women-hating police officer Sid Wisløff is put ...
Kill Buljo
2007
Writer, Director, Editor
Jompa Tormann and his guests and family are brutally gunned down during an engagement party. Sami- and women-hating police officer Sid Wisløff is put ...
Kill Buljo: The Beginning
2007
as Various Characters
In the spring of 2007, "Kill Buljo The Movie" took Norwegian cinema by storm. 90,000 experienced the madness at the cinema. But long before the featur...
Kill Buljo: The Beginning
2007
Writer, Director
In the spring of 2007, "Kill Buljo The Movie" took Norwegian cinema by storm. 90,000 experienced the madness at the cinema. But long before the featur...
Remake
2006
as Attendant #2
Stephen and Deb, forced to spend the night in a crappy motel, are subjected to a series of crappy remakes of popular films.
Remake
2006
Director
Stephen and Deb, forced to spend the night in a crappy motel, are subjected to a series of crappy remakes of popular films.
Prosjekt Adonis
2005
A comedy stage show intersped with short film clips. By Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen.
Prosjekt Adonis
2005
Director
A comedy stage show intersped with short film clips. By Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen.
Deathrow-mance
N/A
Writer, Director
A British media executive who hastily marries an American death row inmate as a loophole to avoid being deported and losing a huge buyout of her compa...
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2
N/A
Screenplay
Over Your Dead Body
N/A
Executive Producer
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to “reconnect”, but each has secret intentions to kill the other.