Maléfique

Maléfique - Psalm 666 (Fr. " Sinister " ) is a French Fantasy-/Horrorfilm.

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The former head of the company Carrère was arrested for fraud. In prison, he has to his rundown cell to share with three people. Marcus is a transsexual, whose reason for his condemnation during the movie is not known. Pâquerette is a retarded 20 - year-old who eats everything manic. He has lived as a child in the pigsty. When he is released for the first time out of the barn, he meets his six -month-old sister, who he eats with pleasure. Finally, would there still Lassalle, an intellectual who has killed his wife in a fit one morning.

One night the prisoners find an old book in a hole in the wall. It turns out that this is the diary of 1920 imprisoned Charles Danvers. This documented his attempts to break out of either black magic from his cell. The four characters find out quickly that the symbols and sayings in the book actually have an effect. They find hope to be able to break out of prison. Pâquerette, which is always called by Marcus just " little boy " begins, after a failed attempt to break out of the cell to eat up the book. But as he has just done the first bite, it lifts off the ground and all his bones twist, until he dies. In a fit of rage then Marcus throws the book out the window. The next day the new prisoner Hippolyte Picus ( Didier Bénureau ) comes into the cell, which leads to a video camera with which receives uninterrupted, what is happening. The next morning Picus is gone. Carrère finds out using the camera that he had had the book with him and disappeared with the aid through the wall. This came to renewed courage, decide the three to try the same spell. You pass through the wall into the prison cell of Charles Danvers and find out that the book does not help the outbreak. The secret of the book is that it satisfies the one greatest wish in life.

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Maléfique - Psalm 666 plays almost exclusively in the prison cell. This production costs could be kept very low.

Also characteristic is the pale color scheme that underpins the low light conditions in the cell and the gloomy atmosphere underscores. So you have to part the feeling that the film is black and white.

Maléfique contains several references to the Cthulhu Mythos. For example, is called in one of the Yog- Sothoth spells, and parts of the diary are written in the language of R'lyeh.

The film was released in Germany on 18 May 2004 exclusively on DVD and not hit the theaters.

Prices

  • Avignon Film Festival: Prix Vision
  • Gerardmer Film Festival: Special Jury Price
France 2002 Screenplay Film score
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