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Malefique (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Maléfique
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Eric Valette

Written By:
Alexandre Charlot
François Cognard (based on an idea by)

Actors:
Gérald Laroche ..... Carrère
Philippe Laudenbach ..... Lassalle
Clovis Cornillac ..... Marcus
Dimitri Rataud ..... Pâquerette
Didier Bénureau ..... Hippolyte Picus
Geoffrey Carey ..... Danvers
Félicia Massoni ..... Claire Carrère
Yves Arnault ..... Le directeur de la prison
Pascal André ..... Taulard 1
Paul-Alexandre Bardela ..... Hugo Carrère
Tayeb-Akim Boudina ..... Taulard 2
Jean-Marc Capo ..... Maton
César Castagné-Favali ..... Danvers bébé
Thierry Cazal ..... Gardien prison 2
Yasmina Zekkour-Ferhat ..... La visiteuse

Synopsis:

A prison cell. Four prisoners - Carrere, Marcus, Daisy and Lassalle. Behind a stone slab in the cell, mysteriously pulled loose, they discover a book: the diary of a prisoner, Danvers, who occupied the cell at the start of the century. The diary contains magic formulas that supposedly enable the prisoner to escape... Malefique is a horror film. It doesn't pretend to be a psychological thriller; it doesn't wink at the audience with comical parts, or fake scares. It is a straight forward, gloomy, atmospheric and bloody film built up nice and slow and then never let's go until the finish. Fans of H.P Lovecraft could possibly see this as the one successful adaptation of a book that the master never wrote. It has been a long time since we've had an extremely violent horror film, that isn't afraid to play it straight for once. Malefique will be a pleasant surprise for those that thought that all of the good horror films of recent are strictly coming from Japan.

Four prisoners share a single cell: the domineering transvestite, Marcus; Marcus's idiot savant buddy, Paquerette, who will eat anything in sight including pocket watches, cockroaches, and his little sister; Lassalle, the intelligent librarian who murdered his wife; and Carrère, the new guy who was caught up in corporate fraud and is now focused on escaping. After a brick falls from the wall, the men discover the hidden journal of a 'Fountain of Youth'- obsessed serial killer who occupied the cell in the 1920s. Is this journal the secret to their escape? Or is there something much more sinister behind it?

In a penitentiary, four prisoners occupy a cell: Carrère, who used his company to commit a fraud and was betrayed by his wife; the drag Marcus and his protégée, the retarded Paquerette, who ate his six months sister; and the intellectual, Lassalle who killed his wife. One night, Carrère finds an ancient journal hidden in a hole in the wall of the cell. They realize that the book was written by Danvers in the beginning of the last century and is about black magic. They decide to read and use its content to escape from the prison, when they find the truth about Danvers' fate.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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