Yannick gets a notice in the mail informing him that he has been accepted to a film school. Well, off he goes on a bicycle ride with his camera in a backpack. He shoots some cute kids playing in a park and then continues his ride. All is well until a black cat runs in his path and over the handle bars goes the young Spielberg, landing badly and disabling the bike.
The young man stops at a house and asks to use the phone. The owner says that he will call a taxi. Yannick sees blood on his hands from the accident and walks through the front door to the kitchen sink to wash up. A scream from upstairs causes mr. Curious to investigate. A guy is in a room, bleeding and the host pushes his prying visitor into another room with sealed windows.
We soon learn that the homeowner is a vigilante who kills the unrighteous. He has a subservient wife and a teenage daughter also under his control. Another child, about six years old, never speaks and is eventually placed in a psychiatric hospital.
Yannick has a very unpleasant stay at the Beaulieu residence, with broken bones and other assorted injuries. The leader of the pack, Jacques, turns out to be a local chess champion, and so he challenges his guest to a match; promising to let him leave if he wins. Ingmar Bergman Seventh Seal retread here. A bleeding wall brings back Kubrick's The Shining.
The acting is o.k. But the story becomes silly, with no real tension and a terrible ending. Also it is easily fifteen minuted too long. 5/10.
The young man stops at a house and asks to use the phone. The owner says that he will call a taxi. Yannick sees blood on his hands from the accident and walks through the front door to the kitchen sink to wash up. A scream from upstairs causes mr. Curious to investigate. A guy is in a room, bleeding and the host pushes his prying visitor into another room with sealed windows.
We soon learn that the homeowner is a vigilante who kills the unrighteous. He has a subservient wife and a teenage daughter also under his control. Another child, about six years old, never speaks and is eventually placed in a psychiatric hospital.
Yannick has a very unpleasant stay at the Beaulieu residence, with broken bones and other assorted injuries. The leader of the pack, Jacques, turns out to be a local chess champion, and so he challenges his guest to a match; promising to let him leave if he wins. Ingmar Bergman Seventh Seal retread here. A bleeding wall brings back Kubrick's The Shining.
The acting is o.k. But the story becomes silly, with no real tension and a terrible ending. Also it is easily fifteen minuted too long. 5/10.