A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity.
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| Vincent Cassel | ... | Joseph / the shepherd | |
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Olivier Barthélémy | ... | Bart (as Olivier Barthelemy) |
| Ladj Ly | ... | Ladj | |
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Nico Le Phat Tan | ... | Thaï (as Nicolas Le Phat Tan) |
| Leïla Bekhti | ... | Yasmine / barmaid | |
| Roxane Mesquida | ... | Eve | |
| Julie-Marie Parmentier | ... | Jeanne / Joseph's niece | |
| Gérald Thomassin | ... | Maurice | |
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Quentin Lasbazeilles | ... | Gilou |
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Guillaume Bacquet | ... | Bébert |
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Alexandre Borrel | ... | Jérôme |
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Georgette Crochon | ... | Marie / Joseph's Wife |
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François Levantal | ... | Le pompiste / Le chirurgien---The gas station attendant / The surgeon |
| Monica Bellucci | ... | La belle vampiresse | |
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Oxmo Puccino | ... | Client boîte |
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On Christmas Eve, in the Styxx Club in Paris, the troublemaker Bart and his scum friends, Thaï and Ladj, meet the bartender Yasmine and the customer Eve, and after a fight of Bart in the nightclub, Eve invites the group to go to her house in the country. While on the road near the cottage, they are introduced by Eve to the weird shepherd and housekeeper, Joseph, whose wife is pregnant. Joseph feels a sort of attraction for Bart, and during this Christmas night, Joseph discloses his real intentions. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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by Hakim Chapoori & Nicolas Lefurieux
© 2006 120 Films / La Chauve-Souris / Because Music
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Sheitan also means devil in Arabic. See more »Crazy Credits
A few seconds after the credits start, a subliminal pornographic frame is inserted. See more »Soundtracks
Saïgon Remixby Hakim Chapoori & Nicolas Lefurieux
© 2006 120 Films / La Chauve-Souris / Because Music
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1 February 2006 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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EUR2,700,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Co-producer Vincent Cassel gave his handsome star Vincent Cassel (son of the late international star Jean-Pierre) a chance to essay the colorful character role of the repulsive gardener Joseph. Watching him mugging about in a scruffy-haired, ugly-toothed make-up provides most of the fun that is to be had from this peculiar but largely disagreeable diabolical French horror flick; there is little I hate more than the sight of young people waving their arms around in that silly 'hip-hop' fashion and, unfortunately, there is a lot of that going on in the first half of the film but I must say that watching Cassel's baffled reaction to it was very amusing! Anyhow, three youngsters (each of a distinct race and creed) get in trouble during a Christmas Eve on the town until a beautiful girl (Roxane Mesquida of 2001's FAT GIRL fame) they meet in a disco invites them to spend the night at her farm on the outskirts; there they meet Joseph, his equally unattractive and very pregnant wife, a mentally-challenged relative, the town slut and several of her lusty pretenders. While there is not much gore to be had during the 94-minute running-time, the film-makers decided to substitute that with some disgusting visuals instead: a free-for-all nude swim in the hot waters of a cave; Joseph licking his pregnant's wife tummy; the latter breaking water in the corridor at the climax; an all-important eye-gouging and, worst of all, a completely irrelevant flashback to one of the youngster's one-night stand with (again) an unattractive girl in a tent where her private regions are represented as a table replete with unappetizing food! The events depicted in the film could well be a nightmare being experienced by that same unlucky youngster after being beaten up at the discotheque or the would-be Satanic rituals revolving around the birth of Cassel's child might really be happening – but, frankly, one never cares enough about any of the characters to spend much time afterwards on sorting it all out. For what it is worth, Cassel's real-life wife Monica Bellucci appears briefly as a female vampire in the black-and-white film-within-a-film being shown on TV at one point!