Best french horror film ever?
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Nanook — 12 years ago(August 04, 2013 09:11 AM)
You don't take them where?
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id_11 — 14 years ago(September 08, 2011 12:26 PM)
yeah martyrs is easily the best french horror film. inside could've been up there but unfortunately the writing gets extremely stupid around the middle of the film and brings down what is otherwise a great horror film.
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gbey — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 09:26 AM)
My Opinion (at this moment) French: MARTYRS, INSIDE & HIGH TENSION
Brittish: MUM & DAD(maybe best EVER!!!), EDEN LAKE, CHERRY TREE LANE
USA: TRAIN, GRACE, THE TOOLBOX MURDERS, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2010, TOOTH & NAIL, DEAD GIRL(not "The Dead Girl") and many many more.
Asian: Too much to mension but BATTLE ROYAL & DREAM HOUSE are in my top 5
Also one "What If" Movie that totally Grabbed me is FROZEN(simple but unforgetable).
About THE VANISHING i liked the remake better (Bullock & Sutherland) The Original is one of our best films in Dutch history "SPOORLOOS" (Vanished) it was low budget and not as creepy as the remake. Check it out, most people like what i bring to them. -
georgegates — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 07:32 AM)
You are probably a dimwit Brit. I will check out MUM & DAD, although my gut instinct and all indicators tell me not to tricked yet again into another low-budget Brit-crap production.
Your list gives you sufficient credibility though.
I know already I will regret this.
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georgegates — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 12:40 PM)
Mom & Dad is passable, good at some points. 5/10. (For comparison, if Mom&Dad were rated as 6, l'intrieur (2007) would rated a definitive 9)
Eden Lake is a good movie but an American/Brit production.
Cherry Tree Lane (2010): won't be tricked into watching this pile of youknowhwat
http://www.imdb.com/board/11468829/board/nest/165964265
First 10 minutes of a 78 minute long film is spent watching an impossible to like couple eating their dinner - I kid you not.
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abbycatt — 12 years ago(October 07, 2013 09:39 PM)
Wow. Your douchiness just oozes with each passing comment. WHO are you talking to?! Nobody is responding to you, except me, to tell you that you fail at the internet. And the fact that you don't take older movie recommendations seriously tells us all that you fail as a horror fan.
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p-zombie — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 01:47 PM)
I'm not sure about better but as far as French horror goes Mutants is definitely worth a watch.
It's a bit contrived, as all movies seem to be, but has a nice bleak atmosphere. It's and interesting take on the zombie apocalypse genre.
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iHaveNoFkinClue — 14 years ago(September 26, 2011 05:22 AM)
Personally, I preferred Switchblade Romance/High Tension over Inside.
Martyrs started well but went further and further downhill once the 'twist' was revealed. It just got silly and boring thereon.
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georgegates — 14 years ago(March 23, 2012 02:29 AM)
this?
Looks like great cinematography, digital camera system, good FX, too devoid of character relations, usual monstrosity flick. Think I'll pass.
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lunesca-303-939813 — 13 years ago(April 13, 2012 07:30 AM)
I've watched so much world cinema, extreme cinema and horror over the years that although this movie is good it pales in comparison to a lot of films that take the genre and push it to it's furthest reaches. Not just in gore, that is an afterthought when watching a lot of french horror as you'll know (it's plentiful but 9/10 times it still manages to fall second to the overall theme). It may well just be me but comparing it to the other french horrors I watched around the same time I found Martyrs vastly more upsetting and core shattering by ten fold. Not to mention High Tension/Switchblade Romance which deserves a respectful nod at the least!
Then again, fear is down to the individual.
I found the CGI in this film broke up the otherwise astounding atmosphere in an awful way, the vanilla performance of Sarah in comparison to the phenominal performance by Beatrice Dalle as "the woman" caused so much friction and inbalance that I almost sided with the maniac if only because she was vastly more compelling. I think this was POTENTIALLY one of the best french horror films ever but it was executed in such a way that it fell short for me.
Thinking about it, once a horror film achieves a certain level of quality (such as Inside and Martyrs) it is hard to really say which is best as it is down to the viewer and their soft spots. I found Martyrs vastly more terrifying because -I- identified with the characters to a greater extent, the subject matter switched more buttons and hit more nerves and that movie has a soul of it's own, not a sum of it's parts. Though I have gone through 2 pregnancies at this point, Inside didn't hit my nerves and I really think that as a single, 25 year old, woman who lives on her own in the arse end of nowhere, it should have.
