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The surrealistic story is so-so, but well enough filmed to be entertaining.
The music however I find stunning. Never red/met anyone who is also excited about it, but I certainly am.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
08/26/23
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Même si l'on prenait pour initiative d'excuser les défaillances du scénario par la présence du fantastique, le film ne s'en améliorerait probablement pas. Oh, certains points positifs bien sûr... Comme le jeu de Chénier qui, après avoir collé si longtemps au rôle de Charest dans Radio Enfer, réussit curieusement à m'épater avec son personnage de Flavien Juste.
Seulement, l'intrigue est assez risible, d'autant plus que les films d'horreur (en est-ce vraiment un?) ne me passionnent pas autant que ne le font les thriller (en est-ce vraiment un?). Le punch en enlève peut-être même un peu au film, et les 200 clichés nous font beaucoup trop sourciller.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/26/23
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Dans le très bizarre... C'est quoi la boule de boutte de monde?!? Dégueu...
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01/24/23
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A little deceiving...
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02/17/23
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The tempo is too slow, and the story of the girl wasn't surprising too. A French Cadadian film tried to catch the trendiness of Japanese horror mix with early 90 american bloody horror in Hollywood, not successful but good try.
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01/18/23
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<div align=center><b>SAINTS-MARTYRS-DES-DAMNÉS (2005)
directed by Robin Aubert
starring François Chénier, Isabelle Blais, Patrice Robitaille</b></div><p><div align=justify>A journalist with a sixth sense, two old twin sisters with the same name, a masked mechanic, a mayor with an Elvis harido, a retarded who knows plenty thanks to his Teddy bear, a dead bride who appears once in a while, a missing photograph, beautiful hippie girl living in a field, a mad scientist and a sphere-shaped monster with 70 eyes and two giant lungs. Add a <i>Twin Peaks</i> feel to those and plenty of clichés, you'll get the only French-Canadian horror/fatanstic thriller/science-fiction/romance picture ever to be made.<p><i>Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés</i> is a total mess, the plot is confusing, yet intriguing, some stuff seems to be left unexplained if you dont pay enough attention but its good one good quality, the one that makes that type of movie effective. Its very moody. Steve Asselin's cinematography is amazing, as usual. The film looks good in every way possible. Wether is the lighting, the art direction, the visual effects, they all look the best they could and that is why this film works, cause its not cheap. In the other hand, sometimes the editing is messy, there are some cheap scares but its never laughable and its defiantely weird.<p>The cast is great, especially in terms of supporting character, actor-turned-director Robin Aubert cast people he worked with before and we get some memorable performances from them. Germain Houde and Alexis Martin do a good job. patrice Robitaille is natural, as usual. Isabelle Blais feels a bit underused but François Chénier, in the lead, can barely make us forget about his past and that character he played in that TV show for teenagers for so long.<p><i>Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés</i> is far from original, all the themes have been touched before in better movies. The quest for immortality, discovering its own origin, investigating fantastic events and more. The film is quite well-paced until after a bit more than one hour, it switches gear and slow down with some out-of-nowhere romance that might feel useless a bit and there are way too much explanation before the climax. Most of the times characters, including the lead, appear where ever they need to be and thats a bit annoying. Still, I would recommend the film for the atmosphere it creates and the weird creature with many eyes. For a film of the genre its never laughable, which is good but there are enough stuff to make three films, its a mess. A good mess.</div>
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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