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How Is It The End Of The Year Already? Time, y’all. Life’s proverbial hourglass turns over again, and with it comes another fresh batch of horror titles ready to rock our worlds. But! Before we start digging into 2025’s crop, Daily Dead has once again generously given me a space to highlight my favorite horror “things” of the year.

I’m going to stick with movies because while every year is a good year for horror movies (which I had to remind doubters yet again), 2024 was a Really good year for horror movies. In trying to whittle down a Top 10, I stared at double the amount of titles I thought deserved recognition. Therefore, I’m sticking to the screen — I need every single slot.

10. A Quiet Place Day One

In a year of surprising prequels, A Quiet Place: Day One is my favorite.

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2024 is nearly over, and while we have seen some brilliant horror films come out this year, I don’t think it has been such a great year for the genre. With most horror films flopping at the box office and the dreaded Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel coming out, it all felt wrong. But don’t worry because I have picked out the 18 best horror films that have come out this year. I haven’t ranked the films in the article and I will update the list as more films come out.

Nosferatu (In Theaters) Credit – Focus Features

Nosferatu is a gothic horror drama film written and directed by Robert Eggers. Based on the 1922 silent film of the same name by Henrik Galeen, the 2024 film is set in the 1830s, and it follows estate agent Thomas Hutter as...

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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in January 2025. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 10 best movies coming to Shudder in January 2025.

The Others (January 1) Credit – Dimension Films

The Others is a gothic supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar. The 2001 film follows Grace as she moves in a Jersey house with her three children but she soon begins experiencing strange occurrences and becomes convinced that the house is haunted. The Others stars Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes,...

It does not take much time to see what director David Moreau intends to do with his maddeningly zesty zombie thriller “MadS.” The film, released on Shudder, provides a detailed exploration of a viral outbreak, from the eyes of the patient zero. It is relentless when it comes to escalating the situation, and quite cool when it comes to depicting it. Moreau’s one-take experiment in the film elevates the nauseating tension as the camera only leaves one despicable situation for a more deteriorating one.

The opening title scene where our drugged-up protagonist, Romain (Milton Riche), drives a sports car toward, and later through, the letters “Mads,” establishes the visual style that director Moreau has in his mind. As the camera continues to follow Romain through his nightmarish ordeal, it becomes apparent Moreau has opted for one of filmmaking’s notorious but engrossing gimmicks. The craft of telling a story in one take,...

Exclusive: Voltage Pictures has acquired global rights to the horror thriller O.T.H.E.R, starring Olga Kurylenko.

The David Moreau written and directed feature follows Alice (Olga Kurylenko), who reluctantly returns to her childhood home after the sudden death of her estranged mother, only to discover the house—eerily frozen in time—hides a sinister secret: a high-tech surveillance system tracks her every move as a dark presence lurks in the shadows, driving her toward a terrifying revelation.

Voltage will officially launch global sales for the film at the American Film Market (AFM) 2024. Wild Bunch is set to release the film in France in 2025.

Currently in post-production, O.T.H.E.R. is produced by Radar Films’ Clément Miserez and Matthieu Warter. Umedia’s Bastien Sirodot and Cloé Garbay are associate producers.

The supporting...

The zombie movie isn't dead, but it certainly feels like its been shuffling on its last legs for the last few years. George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" didn't quite create the zombie movie, but it more or less solidified the ideas and tropes we now associate with it. There were many zombie movies in the years following the 1968 release of "Night of the Living Dead," some of them directed by Romero himself. But at some point, zombie horror became ubiquitous and overdone. If I had to pinpoint the start of this oversaturation, it was probably the combination of Danny Boyle's low-fi zombie flick "28 Days Later" in 2002, Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead" remake and Edgar Wright's comedy "Shaun of the Dead," both released in 2004, and the 2010 premiere of "The Walking Dead." In the wake of these particular titles, it suddenly felt like zombies were everywhere.

“MadS” is a French horror movie written and directed by David Moreau starring Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, and Lucille Guillaume.

French horror cinema, though not frequently ventured into, has a reputation for delivering extreme, violent, and disheartening experiences. “MadS” fits this mold perfectly, presenting the terrifying effects of drugs in their most horrific form. Directed by David Moreau, this film takes us on a journey through the subconscious, navigating a night filled with madness and terror. While it may not be entirely original, it succeeds in creating the atmosphere and tension necessary to bring the film to its dramatic peak.

Plot

The story follows Romain, who consumes a new hallucinogenic drug. After hitting a woman on the road, his life and that of his girlfriend spiral into chaos, leading them through a nightmarish night of insanity.

About the Film

If you’re looking for psychological and subtle horror, “MadS” might...

David Moreau’s ‘MadS’ is a fever dream of a film that feels like a cross between Sebastian Schipper’s ‘Victoria’ and Gasper Noe’s ‘Climax’. It’s a one-shot horror thriller that follows an intoxicating yet ridiculously terrifying journey of a few individuals on a night in a French city. Throughout its duration, it feels like a relentless attack on all your senses following characters as they fall into inescapable, frightening situations. After making waves in this year’s Fantastic Fest 2024, it is now streaming on Shudder. It stars Lucille Guillaume, Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, and Lewkowski Yovel in the central roles.

Spoilers Ahead

MadS (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

Directed by David Moreau, ‘MadS’ on Shudder follows the visceral, maddeningly chaotic journey of a few teenagers as they find themselves caught in a string of horrifying situations. It is one of those films where the less you know the better.

Out today on Shudder is MadS, an intense new horror movie from director/writer David Moreau (Them) that tranforms a night of carefree partying into a harrowing nightmare that plays out in real-time. An exclusive new clip below highlights just how intense things will become.

In MadS, “Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.”

Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, and Lucille Guillaume star.

In the clip below, Anais (Pavy) has...

This review mentions suicide.

It's hard to say where the hidden cuts are in MadS, David Moreau's latest horror movie that unfolds in one take. The film wastes no time getting into the meat of the action and does more with its low budget than some of the biggest blockbuster horrors have achieved in the past few years. Both an outbreak flick and a fast zombie movie, MadS thrives with its tight and bloody runtime, at just under 90 minutes. Any longer or shorter, and MadS might drag or miss its sweet spot, but the film is too well crafted to make that mistake.

MadS (2024)

Director David MoreauRelease Date September 21, 2024Writers David MoreauCast Xiomara Melissa Ahumada Quito, Lewkowski Yovel, Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton RicheRuntime 86 MinutesGenres Thriller, Horror

We meet the protagonist, Romain (Milton Riche), and we aren't immediately inclined to like him. Clearly privileged and unconcerned with the future,...

Doing a scene in one take or making it look like a scene has been done in one uncut take is more difficult than it looks or sounds. So, you can only imagine what it must take to do an entire film that is either done in one shot or made to look like it is. Some of the most popular examples that come to mind are Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman, Sam Mendes’ 1917, and James Nunn’s action extravaganzas, One Shot and One More Shot. Now, many have criticized that, given how the “invisible cuts” in these movies are pretty visible, the whole one shot gimmick feels like a distraction rather than an efficient way to give viewers an immersive experience. Well, that’s where films like Victoria, One Cut of the Dead, and Boiling Point come into play, as they have achieved the aforementioned...

“Stay calm. A problem has arisen. An operator will contact you.”

When every human inhabitant of this planet is gone, will elevators be left talking to each other? This is one of several machine voices we hear during the course of David Moreau’s frantic thriller, which unfolds like a stream of consciousness and maintains that quality even as its human characters become less and less conscious of themselves. Heavy with social subtext and playing out like a societal farewell, it’s a vibrant piece of cinema dominated by a sense of individual and collective tragedy.

Romain (Milton Riche) has been hanging out with his dealer, messing around and snorting a few lines of a new drug, before he decides to drive home along twilit country roads in his dad’s open-top Mustang. He may be taking risks, and enjoying it, but he’s not an altogether irresponsible young man,...

David Moreau’s directorial debut, MadS, wasted no time in pulling viewers into a state of unease. The 2024 French horror film begins on a warm summer evening as graduation celebrations are kicking into high gear. 18-year-old Romain stops by his dealer’s place seeking some party favors before joining the revelry. Little does he know that an encounter on the drive home will ignite a harrowing chain of events unfolding over the next traumatic hours in real-time.

Shot entirely in a continuous take, MadS immediately immerses the audience in Romain’s frazzled perspective. When a mysterious injured woman climbs into his car, her disturbing behavior leaves more questions than answers. As her condition deteriorates behind the wheel, it becomes clear something sinister is spreading. Romain’s blissful night out quickly devolves into a desperate fight for survival. Through it all, Moreau’s fluid camerawork keeps viewers constantly unsettled, never allowing...

A joyriding teenager drives headlong into the zombie apocalypse in David Moreau’s euphorically nihilistic film

You’re young, you’re high, you’re carefree, you’re tooling around in daddy’s best car … when a heavily bandaged and bleeding young woman jumps into your borrowed ride, unable to speak and in a state of panicked frenzy. What do you do? Teenager Romain (Milton Riche) panics right back at her, and so begins a fantastic exercise in tension and mood, with director David Moreau (Them) maintaining a strong sense of momentum even as the film skates by on the loosest of narratives.

This sense of momentum is aided by the choice to shoot the film in one take. Or rather, the appearance of one take; inevitably there are joins but, as with Hitchcock’s Rope, they are hidden as much as possible. It does not take too long to become...

We first get a sign that trouble is afoot in the patch of suburban France where David Moreau’s MadS is set when a bandaged, mutilated woman (Sasha Rudakova) aggressively hops into 18-year-old Romain’s (Milton Riche) car after he pulls over to the side of the road. As Romain heads toward the nearest hospital, the woman, who’s unable to speak, is manic and paranoid, constantly looking behind her to see if she’s being followed.

Of course, Romain isn’t in the best state of mind himself, having just snorted a couple lines of a new party drug in preparation for a night out with friends to celebrate their recent high school graduation. As the woman becomes completely unhinged, wildly flailing about the speeding car and eventually stabbing herself in the neck multiple times, a transference seemingly occurs between her and Romain, though it’s difficult to tell...

Among the diverse genres in cinema, horror has carved out a unique space, captivating audiences with its ability to evoke fear and suspense. Over decades, various sub-genres have emerged, each bringing something fresh to the table. One such innovative approach is the one-take horror film, with MadS being the latest addition to it.

MadS | Credit: Shudder

Directed by David Moreau, this gripping short film has generated substantial buzz with its trailer, which offers a chilling glimpse into a nightmarish outbreak unfolding in real-time, captured in a continuous shot.

MadS Takes the Challenge of One Continuous Take in Horror

The combination of horror with one-shot films has recently emerged as a popular sub-genre, gaining traction with the success of films like Cut, Unfriended, and Elizabeth Olsen’s acclaimed 2011 film Silent House.

Elizabeth Olsen in Silent House | Credit: Universal Pictures

The one-shot film, a remake of La Casa Muda, earned Olsen widespread acclaim for her performance,...

Ambitiously shot in one take, MadS is coming to Shudder on October 18th, and we have a look at the official trailer that teases the mind-bending mayhem of the new French horror film from writer/director David Moreau (Them).

Synopsis: Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.

Written & Directed by: David Moreau

Cast: Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, Lucille Guillaume

Genre: Horror

Language: French

Runtime: 88 min

[Image Credit: Above image courtesy of Philip Lozano and Shudder.

Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night. MadS, the French single take outbreak horror written and directed by David Moreau, starts streaming on Shudder on October 18th. The official trailer has debuted today, go check it out down below. Look for our review closer to...

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A night of partying among friends turns nightmarish in MadS, the new horror movie from director/writer David Moreau (Them). Shudder released an official trailer for the outbreak horror movie that highlights the film’s hook: the one-take nightmare is tracked in real-time.

MadS debuts exclusively on Shudder on October 18.

In MadS, “Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.”

Watch the new trailer below for glimpses into the outbreak horror and the single-take hook.

Spend a night in Hell with MadS, a single-shot joyride across the night when everything descends into chaos in real-time. Written & directed by David Moreau, MadS follows Romain (Milton Riche), who’s just trying to celebrate his birthday and get a little f*cked up with his girlfriend Anais (played by Laurie Pavy, who absolutely steals the movie). It has the makings of a classic early summer blowout, until a stranger crashes into his life and sends the entire night into a downward spiral.

Romain is only 5 minutes away from his dealer’s house when a woman in bandages and hospital scrubs comes running out of the woods looking for help. Let’s call her: Patient Zero. With a couple of 8 Balls in his pocket, Romain isn’t exactly keen to call the police for help so keeps quite and agrees to take Patient Zero to the hospital in town.

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If you are a horror fan then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription you might be wondering what’s in store for you in October 2024. Don’t worry there is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month and we have listed the 13 best movies coming to Shudder in October 2024.

Hush (October 1)

Hush is a slasher horror thriller film directed by Mike Flanagan who also co-wrote the film with Kate Siegel. The 2016 film follows the story of a dead writer living in a remote house in the woods but when a masked killer appears in the window she must fight for her survival. Hush stars Kate Siegel in the lead role with John Gallagher Jr.,...

Director David Moreau knows a thing or two about helming intense horror set over the course of a single evening; the filmmaker previously unnerved with the 2006 home invasion horror Ils (Them). His latest, MadS, takes it a step further with an energetic horror movie presented as a single continuous take tracking a night that spirals out of control for young partyers. As stylish as that gimmick can be, the single-take format can’t distract from the familiar outbreak horror trappings.

The French horror film begins with Romain (Milton Riche), an affluent late teen/early 20-something snorting lines of a red-hued designer drug with his dealer in preparation for the night’s festivities with friends. Romain gets sloppy with his cigarette on his drug-hazed drive home, prompting him to inspect his dad’s Mustang for damage. A terrified, bandaged woman unexpectedly hops into the car while stopped, unable to speak but...

Paris-based international film sales company Pulsar Content has formed a strategic partnership with Digital District Entertainment, a leading post-production, VFX and production facilities company, with offices in France, Belgium and India. The partnership will create “a streamlined and cost-effective production process for international film projects,” according to a statement.

Pulsar Content’s Cannes lineup includes Un Certain Regard’s “Niki” by Céline Sallette, Antoine Chevrolliers’ “Block Pass,” premiering in Critics’ Week, and Camila Beltran’s “Mi Bestia,” premiering at Acid.

Dde’s Cannes lineup includes Julien Colonna’s “Le Royaume” in Un Certain Regard and Patricia Mazuy’s “Visiting Hours” in Directors’ Fortnight.

The companies have previously worked together on several films, including “The Deep House” by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, which sold to Blumhouse for the U.S. and Universal for international territories. They also teamed up on Edouard Salier’s “Tropic” and “Mads” by David Moreau.

Dde...

Paris-based Pulsar Content has taken on world sales rights to Colombian director Camila Beltrán’s debut feature Mi Bestia, which is making its world pemeire in Cannes’ Acid 2024 line-up.

Set in Bogotá in 1996, the film follows a 13 year-old girl grappling with adolescence as everyone around her grows frightened of an approaching red moon lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth.

Mi Bestia is produced by the filmmaker’s Colombia-based production house Felina Films with France’s Films Grand Huit, and Colombia’s Inercia Películas and Ganas Producciones. Beltrán, whose experimental short films have been shown across festivals including Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand,...

A 17-title buying spree from Scandinavian and Baltic distributor NonStop Entertainment includes deals for Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey, and Aaron Schimberg’s Sundance title A Different Man.

Diop’s documentary Dahomey tells the story of 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (located within present-day Benin in Africa) that were returned to Benin after being held in a French museum. Films du Losange handles sales.

Sold by A24, Schimberg’s A Different Man stars Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson in the story of a man with neurofibromatosis, who undergoes surgery for a new start...

Shudder has picked up North America, UK & Ireland and Australia & New Zealand to David Moreau’s continuous shot genre title MadS from French outfit Pulsar Content.

The film shot in five takes over five days. It is set on a summer night and follows a teen who stops to see his dealer, tries a new drug and sets out to party, but ends up picking up an injured woman as the night takes a shocking, surreal turn.

MadS stars newcomers Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy and Lucille Guillaume.

Pulsar Content is at the EFM with Michele Placido’s Eternal Visionary about the life of Luigi Pirandello,...

Exclusive: Paris-based Pulsar Content has acquired world sales rights for Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar’s U.S. road movie Silver Star, co-starring Grace Van Dien and Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, for a launch at the upcoming EFM.

The production sees French duo Bessis and Amar reunite behind the camera for the first time since their 2013 SXSW breakout Swim Little Fish Swim, having first sparked attention with 2011 short film Checkpoint.

Johnson plays a young African-American Civil War reenactor freshly out of jail, who learns that the lives of her estranged parents are at risk and tries to help them by robbing a bank.

In her botched robbery attempt, she takes a hostage named Franny (Van Dien), who turns out to be a charmingly impulsive pregnant teenager with nothing left to lose.

Together, they embark on a twisted electric chase through scenic American landscapes, clashing and struggling...

Chevrollier is behind hit French series including Oussekine and international hit thriller The Bureau

Paris-based sales house Pulsar Content has hopped aboard Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass and will kick off sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris which takes place from January 16-23.

Block Pass is the anticipated debut feature from Chevrollier, who is well known as a series director in France. His credits including police brutality drama Oussekine, spy thriller The Bureau and political drama Baron Noir.

The film is produced by Nicolas Blanc’s Agat Films and reteams the director with Oussekine star Sayyid El Alami alongside fresh face Amaury Foucher,...

The French film is about one night in the life a teenager.

Paris-based sales company Pulsar Content has boarded French filmmaker David Moreau’s continuous shot genre film MadS and will kick off sales at Toronto later this month.

MadS, was filmed in a single take over just five days in the Grand Est region of northeastern France this summer and is in post-production with expected delivery in early 2024.

Yohan Baiada’s Paris-based Les Enfants Terribles, who co-produced 2023 Pathé blockbuster Asterix & Obelix : The Middle Kingdom, produced the film in co-production with Goodfellas and in association with Digital District.

Warning: contains spoilers for X-Force #38!After nearly 40 issues, the biggest bad opposing Krakoa's X-Force espionage team has finally been defeated, with the Man with the Peacock Tattoo being killed by his own horrific experiments at the conclusion of X-Force #38.

The Man With The Peacock Tattoo was first introduced as the mysterious leader of the anti-mutant agency Xeno - literally short for "Xenophobic" - in X-Force #1, and while Krakoa's "wetwork" team has faced many villains over it's 38 issue run so far, Peacock Man has remained the group's "Big Bad," particularly for the mutant assassin Domino, who was brutally kidnaped and tortured by him.

X-Force #37 finally reveals the identity of the Man with the Peacock Tattoo, with the man behind the mask established as a clone of David Moreau, better known as the horrific "Genegineer," from Genosha and 1990s X-Tinction Agenda event. After years of fighting against Moreau's clone and Xeno, X-Force's...

Warning! Spoilers for X-Force #37 ahead!

Marvel Comics' latest cover art for the X-Men spinoff X-Force places Wolverine's legacy within an even darker light that evokes the tragic history of the adamantium-laced mutant. The most iconic and established member of the Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine is perhaps the darkest member of the team of mutant outcasts, having lived a life full of pain, tragedy, and violence. Now, a new threat that X-Force must face calls that traumatic past to mind.

The upcoming X-Force #38 by Benjamin Percy and Robert Gill will see the titular team of mutants up against a frightening chimera created by the anti-mutant organization Xeno. Marvel has released Joshua Cassara and Dean White's cover art for the issue, which shows a patchwork creature made up of pieces from Wolverine, Domino, Omega Red, Beast and Deadpool. The sewn-together nature of this creation and the electric bolts bringing it to life evoke Frankenstein's monster.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for X-Force #37!A masked figure referred to as the "Man With the Peacock Tattoo" has remained a constant foe of X-Force for the last three years, and now his identity has finally been revealed as someone from the X-Men's distant past. One of the original titles to launch as part of the X-Men's new Krakoa Era, X-Force has seen its titular team of mutants tasked with serving as the island nation's chief intelligence agency. Their necessity was made apparent following a terrorist attack by anti-Krakoa organization Xeno, led by the mysterious, masked enemy.

Little has previously been revealed about the Man with the Peacock Tattoo, with scant evidence of his origins only hinted at by his seemingly peerless mastery of genetic engineering. Perhaps then it comes as no surprise that this iteration of X-Force's first and greatest foe has links to X-Men history long...

Hollywood and the West in general have been remaking some of the greatest Asian movies since the 60s, picking the most commercially successful and the most adaptable productions to bring to both American and worldwide audiences. A number of them were of equal or at least similar quality, with John Sturges’s “The Magnificent Seven” (based on “Seven Samurai”) and Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” (based on Yojimbo”) being some of the most prominent samples. At the same time, however, and particularly after the 90s, the quality of remakes decreased significantly, resulting in a series of remakes that can only be described as truly awful, even though, on occasion, they were directed by the same filmmakers who shot the originals. Here, we have included 15 of the worst ones, in random order.

1. Ju-On: The Grudge Remake: The Grudge

Takashi Shimizu, who was also the screenwriter, puts the events in a non-chronological order,...

French director David Moreau has been accused of sexual assault by a crew member on his movie “King,” which wrapped filming on Oct. 9. The female crew member, whose name has not been disclosed, filed a police complaint in Montpellier, in the south of France.

The news was first reported by Le Parisien newspaper and the filing of the police complaint was confirmed to Variety by the producer of “King,” a big-budget family movie which is produced by Maneki Films, Full House and Pathé. A preliminary investigation into the claim will soon be launched by Montpellier’s prosecutors, according to Le Parisien. The complaint alleges that the sexual assault took place on Sept. 12 and 13 in Sète, in the south of France, outside the “King” shoot and working hours.

Moreau’s representative has not responded to request for comment.

The film producer told Le Parisien that she came to the set as...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron outlined in a televised address on Wednesday new relief measures for the culture sector, including a temporary indemnity fund for canceled or postponed TV and film shoots during the pandemic.

Macron said the temporary indemnity fund will be launched by the National Film Board (Cnc), in collaboration with the regions and private partners, including banks, loan institutions and insurers. “Everyone will have to take their responsibilities… We won’t be able to do it on our own,” said Macron, alluding to insurers’ systemic exclusion of pandemic-related risks from their coverage.

On a case-by-case basis, the fund will aim to help French producers if they are forced to pause or reschedule filming because of the coronavirus crisis but aren’t covered by insurance. The initiative will be accessible to shoots scheduled in the months to come.

Among the 23 shoots that were stopped when France went into...

For the next three months, join me for a summer abroad, as I check out foreign films from countries that have made a big splash in the horror community. Of course, in the spirit of this column, I’ll be taking a peek at movies that may not be as well-known as some of the classics from their particular country. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to find a few surprises together.

June is here and we have just passed the summer solstice, so the days are long and the sun is warm. I would imagine that means you are craving a movie that will leave you curled up in a ball weeping into clenched fists right about now. Well, you’re in luck, because our first stop on this summer tour is France. Now, you may be thinking, Since when is France depressing? It’s the land of smoking in outdoor cafés,...

Stars: Sofia Lesaffre, Stéphane Bak, Jean-Stan Du Pac, Paul Scarfoglio, Kim Lockhart | Written by David Moreau, Guillaume Moulin | Directed by David Moreau

David Moreau, co-director of Ils/Them, turns artist Bruno Gazzotti’s best-selling French/Belgian comic book Seuls into a sci-fi thriller of gaelic proportions… Sounds like a match-made in [French] heaven right? Well a part of that statement is right.

After going to a funfair the night before, Leila wakes up in an empty city. Where are her parents? Where has everyone gone? Thinking she must be the sole survivor of an unthinkable catastrophe, she wanders the weirdly deserted streets. Until she meets four other mystified strangers. Together they hole up at a plush hotel, and set out to understand what has happened, why they are surrounded by gigantic boiling clouds and what these apocalyptic events actually mean.

I’ve not read the graphic novel on which Alone is based,...

Offering up a French twist on the ever-popular dystopian teen movie, Alone (Seuls) follows five Gallic kids who wake up one day to find they’re the only people left on earth. It’s an awfully familiar premise — picture 28 Days Later without the zombies or The Fifth Wave without the wave — that director David Moreau takes to mostly familiar places, struggling to be either original or convincing for most of the running time, until a Sixth Sense-style finale tries to justify everything that just happened.

Made on a rather tight budget of €6 million ($6.3 million), this Studiocanal-backed adaption...

English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.

50. Kuroneko (1968)

English Title: Black Cat

Directed by: Kaneto Shindo

Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...

English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.

50. Kuroneko (1968)

English Title: Black Cat

Directed by: Kaneto Shindo

Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...

French director David Moreau has spoken rather candidly about his experience with Hollywood when he directed 2008's Jessica Alba-led Japanese horror remake "The Eye".

Talking with Marc Fennell for Sbs' The Feed, Moreau has only praise for his star Alba but calls the rest of the experience the "worst" of his professional career. The first issue came with Alba's handlers and their ridiculous coddling of the star.

The more damning quotes though are about the editing, indicating the film was essentially taken off him because the studio didn't like what he did - so "the movie that you saw is not the movie that you did". Check out the full interview below:...

Ils (Them)

Written by David Moreau & Xavier Palud

Directed by David Moreau & Xavier Palud

France/Romania

The unknown has been a common theme in horror since the very first horror movies. It used to be possibly the most common theme in the entire horror genre. Somewhere along the way the various studios, directors, producers, and writers responsible for the many horror films released every year forgot about the theme of the unknown. Horror no longer became about the unknown, instead it was about the brutally visceral. The more the years went by, and as the more modern age of horror was breached, fear of the unknown became an almost forgotten theme of the horror genre.

At some point fear of the unknown started staging a mini comeback amid all the found footage, torture porn, and gorier horror films. Horror movies were once again being released that focused on what the...

Paris -- French comedies have featured mistresses, lovers, sugar daddies and even sugar granddaddies in all ways imaginable, but are yet to deal with the cougar phenomenon that’s recently invaded American screens, both big and small. (The one exception being Anne Fontaine’s latest movie Two Mothers – a dual-cougar drama that was reportedly mistaken for a comedy by many viewers who caught the Sundance premiere.) For his first solo outing after co-helming the horror flicks Them and The Eye, writer-director David Moreau attempts to correct the situation with It Boy (20 ans d’ecart), a snappy, Hollywood-style

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This revisionist account of Mozart's early life reclaims one of history's lost women. If only the film weren't so turgid

René Féret's earnest and ponderously acted movie is partly a feminist reclaiming of one of history's lost women, and also a revisionist, speculative account of Mozart's early life that is not so far away from Milos Forman's Amadeus. It has a seriousness that commands attention, and a very believable sense of the hardship and bitterness Mozart Sr put his family through. It is a good subject. If only this film weren't so turgid, and didn't have that strained quality in the sound recording that picks up every extraneous costume-rustle and makes the background silence in every scene seem like a continuous hiss.

Marc Barbé and Delphine Chuillot are Léopold and Anna-Maria Mozart, parents who are putting their children through a gruelling and continuous continental tour. Their remarkable 10-year-old,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 14, 2012

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $38.95

Studio: Music Box

Marie Féret is Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart in Mozart’s Sister.

Marie Féret portrays Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, the older sibling of you-know-who, in the 2010 music-filled French drama film Mozart’s Sister.

In 18th century Europe, “Nannerl” Mozart, an accomplished singer, harpsichordist and violinist, is first held forth as her family’s infant prodigy and its featured performer. That is, of course, until her five-years-young brother Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (David Moreau) begins to take center stage.

As their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours them in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe, Nannerl approaches marriageable age. Nannerl’s father bows to social strictures “for her own good” and forbids her to continue with the violin or composition, while privately conceding her talent to his wife. Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed by her gender,...

I know many of you may be thinking enough already with the American remakes of foreign films. French horror thriller Them is set to be remade for American audiences. Variety reports that Spanish commercial director David Alcalde is set to take the helm. 

The original film was written and directed by French helmers David Moreau and Xavier Palud in 2006. The story focuses on "a young couple who are terrorized in their secluded country home." StudioCanal and Nostromo Pictures are producing the remake. They recently brought us Rodrigo Cortes' Buried and are behind the upcoming thriller Red Lights, with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver.

Alcade is a respected commercial director in both Spain and Mexico, having directed more than 200 commercials. He also directed the short film Happy Birthday to You, which won Screamfest in 2006 and was well received at the San Sebastian and Slamdance Film Festivals. 

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Hollywood is busily remaking every movie released in the past 30 years, but they haven't totally abandoned one of their most time-honored traditions: remaking movies from elsewhere. Today Variety is reporting that commercials director David Alcade will make his feature debut at the helm of an English-language remake of French horror/thriller Them (Ils). He'll be stepping into the director's chair for StudioCanal and Nostromo Pictures. Not to be mistaken for the classic atomic-age Them!, which chronicled the rise of giant, irradiated ants in the American Southwest... say, why don't they remake that? I'd sit through a Them! remake. Wait...where was I? Oh, right. Them. No exclamation point. No giant ants. (Sigh.) Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, the original French flick tells the story of a young teacher and her novelist husband who move into a remote, wooded estate. What seems like a restful new home becomes a...

Commercials helmer David Alcalde is slated to direct the English language remake of "Them" for Studiocanal and Nostromo Pictures says Variety.

Based on David Moreau and Xavier Palud's 2006 French horror film "Ils", the story follows a young couple living in an isolated home who are terrorized by hooded assailants over the course of one terrifying night.

"Ils" had only limited success in France but was a surprise hit internationally with interest in the remake already high.

Fans of David Moreau and Xavier Pauld’s 2006 home invasion horror Them (Ils), will be pleased to hear that StudioCanal has gained the rights for a remake, now named Six. Back in 2008 Rogue Pictures expressed some interest in remaking the psychological slasher, but were unable to pull the project together. Now, three years later, StudioCanal have landed the rights and have bagged David Alcalde to helm. The newly signed Alcalde is a respected commercials director, with over 200 credited adverts. He's also made several shorts,...

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The latest in a never-ending line of American horror remakes, Variety says that StudioCanal will bring a new version of the 2006 French thriller Them (or Ils) to the screen, which commercial director David Alcalde will be helming. The original film, written & directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, centered on “a young couple living in an isolated home who are terrorized by hooded assailants over the course of one terrifying night.” (Insert obvious joke about this already being remade as The Strangers here.) Adrian Guerra of Nostromo Pictures, who’s collaborated with Rodrigo Cortés on Buried and Red Lights, will be producing,

To make a judgement on how this could turn out, the two main things to look at here are a) the directing work of Alcalde, and b) reviews of the original movie. The former is actually somewhat tough to get a grasp on; though random ones picked from YouTube aren’t bad,...