2009 · drama · horror · thriller
5150 Elm's Way
Directed by Éric Tessier1h 50m2009
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.
Our read: 5150 Elm's Way (2009) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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