2004 · horror · thriller · psychological
Calvaire
Directed by Fabrice Du Welz1h 28m2004
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
Our read: Calvaire (2004) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · thriller · psychological entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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“You want Belgian folk-horror that turns cozy rural dread genuinely sickening.”
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