Sheitan (Satan)

Sheitan (Satan) (2006)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 52% of users liked it
    (4,259 ratings)

Four friends looking for a good time are lured into a strange and dangerous netherworld in this wildly offbeat horror film from France. It's Christmas Eve, and twentysomethings Bart (Olivier Barthelemy), Ladj (Ladj Ly), Thai (Nico Le Phat Tan), and Yasmine (Leila Bekhti) are bored and looking for… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Kim Chapiron
Written By
Christian Chapiron, Kim Chapiron
Genres
Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
On DVD
Dec 26, 2006
Mars Distribution

Critic Reviews

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    Manages a playful sensibility, reveling in its repugnance and enjoying the heck out of its twisted ending.

  • Philip French, Observer [UK]

    At the end, you feel they should have thrown out Rosemary's baby with the bath water.

  • Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday

    An eyecatching calling card for its first-time director.

  • Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

    If only Cassel had saved his performance for a collaboration with the League of Gentlemen.

  • Nick Curtis, This is London

    Despite the air of brutish aggression and sexual predatoriness, little happens until gory retribution finally rears its head.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Morgan G


    Poor, saved only by Cassel's general brilliance. The plot was unmoving, the quality was generally low.

  • Lady D


    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… More

  • Greg S


    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… More

  • El Hombre I


    It's a shame a well played character by Vincent Cassel wasn't enough to save this tripe

  • Emily A


    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… More

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