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What an unfathomably stupid movie.
The acting was bad, the writing was horrible, the premise as a whole makes no sense...
If you expect something like it's genre peers of the French extremety movement like Martyrs or High Tension look elsewhere.
It's nowhere near as brutal as those while managing to have almost no redeeming qualities.
These characters, all of them are clinically insane. It started off interestingly enough but as soon as it became clear what's going on my bullshit meter started to go crazy.
Don't do this to yourself. Go watch something better instead.
French extremity. Think Martyrs, but backwoods with a hint of mental illness. I thought it was decent, but wanted more out of it. Seemed lacking in cohesion - like it was a little disjointed and could have used a little longer in the plot oven.
A French Christmas film about togetherness. And it's got "that guy" from "that scene" in Irreversible.
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Niztradamus reviewed
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February 26, 2026What an unfathomably stupid movie.
The acting was bad, the writing was horrible, the premise as a whole makes no sense...
If you expect something like it's genre peers of the French extremety movement like Martyrs or High Tension look elsewhere.
It's nowhere near as brutal as those while managing to have almost no redeeming qualities.
These characters, all of them are clinically insane. It started off interestingly enough but as soon as it became clear what's going on my bullshit meter started to go crazy.
Don't do this to yourself. Go watch something better instead.
