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6.1/10 • 155

2024-04-241h 51m

ThrillerHorrorCrimeMystery

When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.

Directors
Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
Writters
Annelyse Batrel, Ludovic Lefebvre

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  1. Virginie Ledoyen

    Virginie Ledoyen

    Élisabeth Guardiano

  2. Paul Hamy

    Paul Hamy

    Franck De Rolan

  3. Sandrine Bonnaire

    Sandrine Bonnaire

    Docteur Carole Marbas

  4. Malik Zidi

    Malik Zidi

    Fabrice Gonnet

  5. Emmanuel Lanzi

    Emmanuel Lanzi

    Le motard

  6. Christophe Favre

    Christophe Favre

    Henri Maublanc

  7. Jérémy Margallé

    Jérémy Margallé

    M. Vasseur

  8. Francis Renaud

    Francis Renaud

    Brigadier-Chef Marcelin

  9. Elisabeth Duda

    Elisabeth Duda

    Pascale Minot

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CinemaSerf

Mar 9, 2024

6/10

"Franck" (Paul Hamy) is hitching his way to a small French village when he is picked up by "Elisabeth" (Virginie Ledoyen). It turns out that she is a police officer send to lead an investigation of double murder and that he is a captain in the national gendarmerie on a continuing mission to track down missing children - a trail that led him to this ostensibly sleepy hamlet. Reminiscent a little of "Doctor Sleep" (2019), the place is overlooked by a sanatorium and quickly the two, initially suspicious of each other, start to realise that their mysterious cases might well be linked. What doesn't really help is a local folklore about the eponymous monster who feeds off the souls of the deceased townsfolk - and as the film gathers pace it seems to be heading for quite a brutal and bloody feast. There might be one really important clue. "Evan" (Cameron Bain) who is the survivor of the apparent self-killings of his parents. What did he see? What does he know? Anything? His psychiatrist "Marbas" (Sandrine Bonnaire) is determined that her charge be left to recuperate, but "Franck" knows he is the link... At times, this is a tensely directed murder mystery but as the plot develops it also rather thins out and neither of the lead characters really offer us much by way of chemistry as serendipity plays just a bit too much of an hand in a denouement that does have quite a fitting twist, but also has something too much of the "Scooby Do" about it. It does just about work in a cinema, the wooded landscapes and the eeriness help it out quite a lot, but on television it will be pretty ordinary.

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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$3,500,000.00
Revenue
$864,825.00
Keywords
based on novel or bookchild murderhitchhikerdemonsanitoriumlocal legendchild abductionmysterious disappearancemissing children