Jack B
Slow paced film in the french countryside involving 2 friends biking in which due to circumstances, one vanishes. Was she lost, killed or what. The story line builds up moderate tension but concludes in a way that reflects what slowly evolved along the way.
I also knew, without looking at the opening credits, that it was written by one of my favorite thriller writers, Brian Clemens. The music by Laurie Johnson was a dead giveaway whose dissonance and eeriness was also used with great effect in Clemens phenomenal 43 episode Thriller Series of the 70s. Clemens is excellent at delving into his characters personalities and builds on their morbid and psychopathic tendencies so that in the end, things get resolved properly.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
07/21/24
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Tom K
A clever slow burner. Predictable in hindsight, even though I don't speak French, but it's fun nonetheless.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/29/23
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Rebekah P
Two young nurses who seem to barely get along for inexplicable reasons decide to bicycle the most boring, brown, flat, redneck part of France. One, Cathy, just wants to eat, drink, be merry, and look at guys--fine. She's also whiny and bored--fine. But that's like all she is. The other is our hero Jane, by the book, single-mindedly following the course they supposedly planned together. There is a brief moment of actual talking between the two, and then it ends in a silly fight and the hero ditching the other girl on the side of the road by a dinky forest in the middle of nowhere by sun-blasted fields. There were no subtitles for the French. Fine, I've done movies like that. Oh, and they're being followed by some French dude named Paul who is sketch AF and rides a scooter. Everyone goes up and down this one road a million times, except Cathy, who disappears. There are random people framed suspiciously. There's a gendarme played by an English guy. There's his weird dad who puts Cathy's abandoned undies on his head and farms. There's a rando school teacher English lady. There's a random dumpy roadside restaurant duo who do nothing but argue and add nothing to anything, except to be the country people warning of danger. It's a lot of badly plotted nonsense and grows quite tedious. This is like the original doing nothing but running through the woods pointlessly for an hour because we don't have enough story to work with. Paul is threatening but says he's a good guy. He destroys evidence. He scares Jane. He acts weird. He isn't forthcoming. But--oh, he's a red herring! That red herring is a rotted, grey herring, it's so badly done. This is also the original "Good dude who helps, but does it in the dumbest possible way because he's an idiot and ends up scaring the heroine." This movie, boy, I gotta tell ya. I was excited to watch it--and now all I can say is, "Welp, that's something I did."
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/23/23
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isla s
This is a pretty tame film as far as horror is concerned, although its not without its somewhat sinister aspects. Aspects of the plot reminded me of The Wicker Man and as a viewer I questioned if I was being/feeling a little paranoid at one point. I think it would be more fair to categorise it as a suspense film, suspense drama, rather than categorising it purely as horror. As a suspense film, it was quite good I suppose. I did feel confused and concerned about what may have taken place but there isn't much in the way of really jump inducing frights, gory violence or the like (which is just as well to me personally, as I'm not keen on that).
The fact that the film has no subtitles to clarify the French spoken may (depending on if your fluent in French, of course) add to the somewhat claustrophobic feel the film carries, which it does although it builds up relatively slowly. This is an interesting watch, although it won't suit all.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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jjjjjj j
A well directed film that who's plot seems a bit outdated in modern times. It was well shot, the music was good but the film seemed very predictable. Maybe in the past the plot would have seemed more novel but in modern times the movie feels very predictable.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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Audience Member
An absolutely Francophobic load of excrement. Complete garbage.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
07/27/20
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