Euthanizer tells the story of Veijo Haukka, a 50-year-old mechanic, whose second job is to put sick pets to sleep. But what happens when he decides to save the wrong person’s dog? The themes revolve around animal rights, suffering and death. But the real story is not about good or evil - it’s about the stupidity of absolute men.

"The main idea was to create a new version of a character that I have seen millions of times before. He’s a bad good guy, who lives by his own rules and tells everybody his "truth". Then I had the idea of a euthaniser for suffering animals - so a "Dirty Harry" with animals was born.

Many inspiring B-movies are "A-movies" for me. There will probably always be a B-movie vibe in my films. In the beginning, I had the idea of making a hard-boiled 1970s genre film, like Dirty Harry or Death Wish. In the process, I was also thinking of films like Taxi Driver and other violent movies with a strong vigilante as a protagonist." [Teemu Nikki, Cineuropa.org, interview by Vassilis Economou]