Gérald Thomassin, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Ladj Ly

A night out clubbing in Paris takes a nasty turn for three friends (One Vietnamese, one African, one French), when they accept the invitation of the beautiful Eve to celebrate Christmas by visiting he...( read more  read more... )r house in the country. Once there they meet the manically grinning caretaker Joseph, who welcomes the out-of-town guests while his heavily pregnant wife Marie lurks upstairs. That evening, what begins innocently as Christmas dinner turns into disturbing conversations about sex, satanic possession and evil. As the weekend progresses Joseph's behavior only gets more erratic and the young friends realize their host has made a demonic pact. All hell is about to break loose.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Kim Chapiron

Release Date: January 1, 2006

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DVD Release Date: December 26, 2006

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  • October 14, 2009
    A better type of teen horror, but for me failed toward the end. It was very predictable, but the progression of the story was enjoyable.

    Vincent Cassel plays a character quite unlike any you've seen him play before, he plays it well, but isn't really a film that is up to his ...( read more)level of acting.
  • July 31, 2008
    Obnoxious amoral twentysomethings party at a creepy French provincial estate where the caretaker has a permanent unsettling grin, and nothing is as it seems. Ambitious attempt at a ROSEMARY?S BABY type atmosphere, but the young protagonists are intolerable and live to annoy the ...( read more)audience for far too long, and the multiple false endings were a bad idea.
  • May 8, 2008
    It's a shame a well played character by Vincent Cassel wasn't enough to save this tripe
  • March 16, 2008
    wasnt the potential gore-fest and no story i was expecting it to be. vincent cassel plays a completely different character from the russian mobster in eastern promise. it was actually a well crafted story that built slowly with continuous sexual and violent tension. unsettling ti...( read more)l the very last!
  • September 9, 2007
    I don't even know what to say. This is not so much a movie as it is Insanity: Caught On Film. To this day I still have no bloody idea what it was about. Apart from wacky, incestuous French satanists and a few kids caught in thier midst. Chapiron has mentioned that this film was i...( read more)nspired by acid and you know what? It really shows.
  • October 13, 2009
    This one almost went underneath the radar. I picked it up for the humble price of $13.99 at J.B. Another near-masterpiece of French horror know-how. Only a few directors can balance comedy and horror. Vincent Cassel fans will rejoice his talents here however it's the films punkis...( read more)h energy and relentless pace which will enthuse horror fans. The perfect pizza & beer flick!!
  • August 17, 2009
    could've been better
  • August 4, 2009
    Delirously twisted and enjoyable, shocking at times this is definitely horror done at it's best. The most striking thing about this film is it's utter lack of morality, the characters illustrated bluntly and vividly..As well as the seamless transistion of surreal lucid scenes to...( read more) mundane awkwardness. Marvellous!
  • March 28, 2009
    The film really sucks until the last ten minutes, which are so chaotic, over-the-top, and graphic that they feel they belong in a better film. The characters are so unlikeable that it's difficult to invest any interest. The sole highlight is Vincent Cassel's performance, which is...( read more) fantastic and you can tell that he had a lot of fun.
  • January 21, 2009
    WASTE OF TIME!!!
    STAY REALLY AWAY!
    ITS SOOOOO ...BEYOND CRITISISM

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