Dir.
Kim Chapiron, France, 2006, 94 mins, subtitles
Cast: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Bartelemy, Roxane Mesquida
Christmas Eve. In a Paris nightclub, Bart,
Ladj and Thai meet two gorgeous girls,
Eve and Yasmin. Drunk, out of control, Bart provokes a ruck.
Pissed off, the barman smashes a bottle over his skull and
kicks him out into the street.
All three guys lust blatantly after eve, who invites them
and Yasmin to spend the weekend at her parents' place in
the country.
They arrive at dawn, and are met by Joseph and Marie, the
caretakers.
Marie, hostile and heavily pregnant, is busy making a doll
for Christmas. Without paying her much attention, the gang
visits a nearby hot spring, where Bart picks a fight with
a group of local kids. A violent confrontation ensues.
One of the bumpkins tears a clump of hair from Bart's head,
before Joseph intervenes. Clearly afraid of the sinister
caretaker, the locals depart, cursing as they go.
Back at the house, our heroes eat a Christmas dinner of
roasted goat. As night falls, their drunken discussion turns
to sex, to evil, to the devil. Joseph, increasingly unsettling,
tells the horrible story of a peasant possessed by Satan
and forced to impregnate his own sister. Their cursed child
was born on Christmas day. Our lads are too busy chatting
up the girls to notice the diabolical trap closing slowly
around them, while marie finishes her strange doll with scraps
of Bart's clothing and the tuft of his hair. Then all hell
breaks loose...
Combining anarchic knockabout comedy
with nerve-shredding suspense, jet-black humour and gut-wrenching
bloody horror, young, cutting-edge French filmmaker Kim
Chapiron’s
debut feature SATAN is bizarre, strange and genuinely creepy.
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