Well, as I see it, there's not really a link between the two stories (I was wondering the same thing while watching the movie) besides the fact that both are very similar: relatives that avenge the torture/death of a loved one by murder. And the fact that Felix took the persona of the ghost when murdering. The girl (don't remember her name) was obviously killed by the Hellestad students, though by the end of the story I don't know if this was confirmed and thus the man was cleared from the murder of his own daughter.
Peder Weine is killed because Therese told Leo and Felix how after Rebecka's suicide Weine apologised to the students for bringing here there, as if Rebecka was the one guilty for their distress and not the other way around.
Finally, there's nothing supernatural about the movie. The legend of the ghost was just that, a legend, though I find very interesting the fact that the farmer's body was found in the lake, but not Felix's, so that the ghost of the latter took the place of the former and so another legend was born.
All in all I think it was a rather unoriginal plot, I kept thinking about Friday the 13th (didn't you?), but the art was really something else. The colors, the camera angles, the transitions from scene to scene, and the scenery was what IMO made the movie worth to watch.
Also it was interesting for me that Leo and Felix came from Mexico, since I'm from there. When Sara kept asking Leo about the rolls with meat in them I almost felt like screaming "They're tacos, TACOS! for heaven's sake!".
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