Best movie of this year hands down!
Charming and brutal
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
View MoreThis movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
View MoreYou may not have known that Luis Bunuel had a son, Juan Luis, and that he too had a filmmaking career.Any mystery as regards the source of this ignorance would be instantly dispelled by a viewing of his rare, early '70s haunted house movie, "Expulsion of the Devil" - which also features an appearance by a young Gerard Depardieu.You see, on the evidence of this film, the younger Bunuel is deservedly obscure. It is possibly the dullest haunted house movie I have ever seen.The set-up is typical: a family move in to some old house and spooky stuff starts to happen. Well, it's not really that spooky, at least not the way Bunuel Jr. shoots it: two or three times some stuff starts flying around.I understand that French movies are more concerned with mood than plot. This one has no mood. Juan Luis couldn't direct to save his life.There are some weird developments later in the movie: a camera crew comes to stay, and apparently, so do some primary school-aged girls. What are they doing there? It might have been explained, or it might not have been. Writing this sentence will be the last energy I ever expend thinking about this movie.
View MoreUnfortunately it's not a very good move. The fact that the son of director Luis Bunuel is somewhat influenced by Bunuel Sr is not more than understandably, but it's without the surrealistic magic that made some of Bunuel's Sr movies so very good. It reminded me of something like Poltergeist part 4 or something like that. Although this movie is somewhat older than the original Poltergeist-movie. Horror-fans will be disappointed for it's lack of real tension or gore-FX. Art-house-lovers will not like it because it has no good story-line or because they'll see that there's no great direction, acting or camera-works. 3 out of 10 points (very boring movie)
View MoreEerie French horror movie with the vague ending of most French new wave movies. To me the most notable thing is to see a young and thin Gerard Depardieu go nuts. The movie takes awhile to build atmosphere but once the researchers show up, that's when the creepiness begins. The makers of "Poltergeist" had to be influenced by this movie. The main problem of the film is that nothing is ever explained or wrapped up. With my ghost stories I like to know why. As with most haunted house movies, the house is the best character. A mild shocker.
View MoreThis is a clunky and rather slow, but mildly interesting French take on the family moves into a haunted house genre. The special effects which largely consist of furniture sliding around are strickly sub-Exorcist, but the film has a few quirky touches which keep the proceedings from being too predictable. Worth a look, if only because French horror films are such a rarity, but this doesn't hold a candle to the similarly themed The Haunting.
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