Asko Lintunen

The peaceful existence of former career criminals is shattered by a midnight phone call to one of them, made by a former associate believed to be dead. Turns out he’s back — and out for blood.

From the wreckage of a buddy comedy rises something stranger: a story that fractures midway into an existential revenge thriller—burning forward with the inevitability of the sun’s passage across the sky.

The Defiler is a fuck-yeah-tale of passion, mayhem, love and revenge, ode to 80’s action, italian ripp offs and b-sleaze set in the cinematic splatter-punk universe.

On his way to the next village, a peasant finds out that he has mischievous company.

An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism.

A slow loss of grip on reality: the search for «objectivity» at the fringes of a society consumed by technology. The film mixes original 16mm, Super 8, analog video and digital material with one AI-generated image transferred to 16mm film stock.