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French cinema: Horror (Page 1 of 3)

À l’intérieur (2007)

Alexandre Bustillo

One Christmas Eve, Sarah is still traumatised by her memory of the horrific car accident in which her husband died and which she only narrowly survived. Tomorrow she will go into hospital to give birth, but she must first spend one last night alone in her quiet suburban house. That evening, a strange woman knocks on her front door and asks if she can be let in to make an urgent phone call... [More...]

Amer (2010)

Hélène Cattet

At three key stages in her life, Ana is assailed by conflicting feelings of fear and desire. In childhood, she is seized with terror when she witnesses an old woman perform a bizarre death ritual whilst her parents yield themselves to a horrifying bestial act. As an adolescent, she is aware of the power she exerts over young men as she flaunts her nascent sexuality for her own amusement... [More...]

Atomik Circus – Le retour de James Bataille (2004)

Didier Poiraud

When stuntman James Bataille accidentally wrecks a bar during a music festival in the backwater town of Skotlett, the bar’s owner Bosco has him put away for 133 years, thereby keeping him away from his daughter Concia. Not long after, Bosco is alarmed when he learns that James has escaped from prison and is on his way back to Skotlett, hoping to hook up with Concia... [More...]

L’Auberge rouge (1951)

Claude Autant-Lara

In the Ardèche region of France in 1883, Marie Martin and her husband manage a remote rural inn. The hostelry is unfortunately situated and the Martins have difficulty attracting customers, so they decide to make their living by less honest means, by murdering their guests and robbing them of their valuables... [More...]

L’Auberge rouge (2007)

Gérard Krawczyk

In the late 1800s, Martin and Rose manage a remote inn in the Pyrenean mountains. Unable to make enough money from their honest trade, the couple allow their adopted son Violet to murder their customers so that they can purloin their belongings. One stormy evening, a stagecoach shows up at the inn and its passengers decide to spend the night there, to the obvious delight of Martin and Rose... [More...]

Belphégor – Le Fantôme du Louvre (2001)

Jean-Paul Salomé

A three thousand year old Egyptian sarcophagus is rediscovered in the vaults of the Louvre museum in Paris. An eminent English Egyptologist, Glenda Spender, is called in to analyse the ancient relic and the well-preserved mummified remains it contains. During the examination, a ghostly spirit escapes from the sarcophagus and enters the Louvre’s electrical system, causing a widespread power failure... [More...]

Bernie (1996)

Albert Dupontel

Bernie has spent his entire life in an orphanage. He has no family, no knowledge of his origins, but, aged 30, he is determined to find out where he comes from. With the savings he has accumulated during his time in the orphanage, he takes an apartment in Paris and begins his quest in earnest. He starts by raiding the offices of the social security so that he can lay his hands on his personal file... [More...]

La Bête (1975)

Walerian Borowczyk

To safeguard the future of his country estate, the Marquis de l’Esperance arranges a marriage between his son, Mathurin, and an English heiress, Lucy Broadhurst. Whilst the Marquis is putting pressure, unsuccessfully, on the Duc De Balo, to get his brother the cardinal to attend the wedding mass, Lucy arrives with her aunt... [More...]

Brocéliande (2002)

Doug Headline

On the very day that archaeology student Chloé begins her university course on Celtic history she senses she is entering a strange and dangerous world. After witnessing a brutal killing, she becomes convinced that supernatural powers are at work, emanating from the forest of Brocéliande, the site of ancient legends..... [More...]

Captifs (2010)

Yann Gozlan

Carole is a member of a humanitarian team whose mission in the Balkans is nearing its end. On the way back home, she and her co-workers are brutally attacked and abducted by a band of criminals whose motive is unclear. Who are the kidnappers? What do they want? The truth is more terrifying than Carole can ever have guessed..... [More...]

La Chambre ardente (1962)

Julien Duvivier

Mathias Desgrez is a sick man who lives alone in his castle in the Black Forest, attended to by his personal nurse Myra Schneider. He asks his two nephews, Marc and Stéphane, to spend the summer with him. These two are surprised when they learn that the journalist Michel Boissard and his wife Marie have also been invited... [More...]

Le Chaudron infernal (1903)

Georges Méliès

In a dark Gothic castle, a green-skinned demon places a women and then two courtiers into a burning cauldron. He performs an incantation and three spirits suddenly appear from the flames, before dancing above his head. Frolicking in Hellish joy, the demon watches as the three spirits burn up and fall to earth... [More...]

La Chute de la maison Usher (1928)

Jean Epstein

As his beloved wife Madeleine succumbs to a mysterious illness, Sir Roderick Usher invites his old friend Allan to his castle to comfort him. Allan has difficulty finding someone to drive him to the Usher homestead; the locals appear to be terrified of the name Usher, as though it bore the imprint of an ancient curse... [More...]

Dans ma peau (2002)

Marina de Van

Thirty-something Esther is an ambitious, out-going young woman who divides her time between her boyfriend Vincent and her work for a polling organisation. One evening, during a night out with her friend Sandrine, Esther injures her leg, but doesn’t realise this until several hours later. The wound continues to fascinate her for days and she becomes morbidly intrigued by her own body..... [More...]

Delicatessen (1991)

Marc Caro

In a grim, post-apocalyptic future, food is so scarce that people are forced to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. On the ground floor of a dilapidated apartment block, Monsieur Clapet runs a butcher’s shop which is sourced by the building’s tenants. Unemployed circus clown Louison turns up in response to Clapet’s ad for an odd-job man... [More...]

Les Dents de la nuit (2008)

Stephen Cafiero

Sam, Prune and Alice are creatures of the night. They live for one thing: to party! Imagine then their elation when they are each invited to a soirée mysteriously titled the Medici Night. The venue is certainly promising – an old chateau in the middle of nowhere, just like you find in those horror films – you know, the ones where a party of naive young people are lured into a creepy old house and get eaten alive by the vampiric fiends within... [More...]

Derrière les murs (2011)

Julien Lacombe

In 1922, a young writer named Suzanne decides to hide herself away in the French countryside so that she can work on her next novel. Not long after arriving at her Auvergne retreat, Suzanne is visited by disturbing nightmares and visions. Meanwhile, several young girls go missing from the village... ... [More...]

Les Diaboliques (1955)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Christina and Michel Delasalle are a married couple who run a private boarding school in France. Delasalle is a tyrant who bullies both his wife and his mistress, Nicole. Having been violently assaulted by Delasalle, Nicole tells Christina that she can take no more and persuades her to assist in the murder of their tormentor... [More...]

Djinns (2010)

Hugues Martin

In 1960, a unit of French paratroopers is sent to Algeria to look for a plane that is believed to have crashed somewhere in the desert. The plane’s wreckage is soon found, but there are no survivors, just a briefcase bearing the words: Top Secret. Attacked by enemy soldiers, the paratroopers take refuge in a strange abandoned citadel... [More...]

Dr. M (1990)

Claude Chabrol

Inspector Hartmann is assigned to look into a spectacular wave of suicides that is sweeping Berlin. His investigation leads him to an attractive young woman, Sonja Vogle, whose portrait appears on screens throughout the country promoting the holiday company Theratos. The latter is owned by Sonja’s adopted father, the powerful media magnate Heinrich Marsfeldt... [More...]

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