Malefique [PAL]
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Uncut, 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.SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Fantasporto Awards, ...Malefique