Hélène Cattet

After researching the Flemish horror cinema in "Forgotten Scares", director Steve De Roover - with the help of co-director Jérôme Vandewattyne (Spit'N'Split) - digs deeper in the follow-up documentary "Surrealistic Nightmares" and shows the beginning of Walloon horror cinema in the '20s (!) and how the genre evolved during the following years. Through unique experiences from the original cast and crew, horror experts and various genre journalists, a broad and in-depth picture is painted about the one-of-a-kind horror legacy from the French side of Belgium, without forgetting the difficult cinema landscape of this small country with two very different languages. "Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema" is illustrated by exclusive behind the scene footage, famous film scenes and loads of original promotional artwork.

Где-то на Лазурном берегу в старом замке обосновалась компания грабителей. Удачно похитив 250 кг золота и скрываясь на автомобиле, по пути они подбирают двух женщин и мальчика. Оказывается, что одна из них — жена писателя, живущего в тех же развалинах. А когда к ним всё же заявляется полиция, начинается затяжная перестрелка, живыми из которой выберутся немногие.

Где-то на Лазурном берегу в старом замке обосновалась компания грабителей. Удачно похитив 250 кг золота и скрываясь на автомобиле, по пути они подбирают двух женщин и мальчика. Оказывается, что одна из них — жена писателя, живущего в тех же развалинах. А когда к ним всё же заявляется полиция, начинается затяжная перестрелка, живыми из которой выберутся немногие.

Женщина пропадает без вести. Её муж исследует странные обстоятельства этого исчезновения. Она ушла от него? Или умерла? Он решает выяснить это, и с этого момента его жизнь наполняется обилием кошмара и насилия…

Женщина пропадает без вести. Её муж исследует странные обстоятельства этого исчезновения. Она ушла от него? Или умерла? Он решает выяснить это, и с этого момента его жизнь наполняется обилием кошмара и насилия…

Каждый из режиссеров выбирает себе букву алфавита и слово, начинающееся на эту букву. Вокруг них и должен строиться сюжет отдельной новеллы. Зрители станут свидетелями самых изощренных убийств по алфавиту от A до Z.

Каждый из режиссеров выбирает себе букву алфавита и слово, начинающееся на эту букву. Вокруг них и должен строиться сюжет отдельной новеллы. Зрители станут свидетелями самых изощренных убийств по алфавиту от A до Z.

A man and a woman, credited as "L'homme" and "La femme", respectively, have sex, which is presented in a series of abstract, dimly-lit, close-up shots, such as bubbles, cigarettes, leather, moaning and breathing.

В жизни Аны уже были три ключевых момента, сильно повлиявших на ее судьбу. Вот и на этот раз она ощущает как ее рот зажимает рука в черной перчатке, лезвие подрезает тонкую податливую плоть.

В жизни Аны уже были три ключевых момента, сильно повлиявших на ее судьбу. Вот и на этот раз она ощущает как ее рот зажимает рука в черной перчатке, лезвие подрезает тонкую податливую плоть.

Santos Palace is a coffee shop in Belgium. There, a waitress serves a strange client. Their eyes meet, minutes pass and we seem to witness a love story that hasn’t began or may have already started, with its potential jealousies and passions, or which may never happen at all; another type of romance. The feeling of seeing or being seen, the rhythmical editing, the use of cinemascope to make objects and spaces appear as abstract forms, the predominance of detailed shots: these are all obsessions, forms and audiovisual ideas that explode in this surprising film.

Santos Palace is a coffee shop in Belgium. There, a waitress serves a strange client. Their eyes meet, minutes pass and we seem to witness a love story that hasn’t began or may have already started, with its potential jealousies and passions, or which may never happen at all; another type of romance. The feeling of seeing or being seen, the rhythmical editing, the use of cinemascope to make objects and spaces appear as abstract forms, the predominance of detailed shots: these are all obsessions, forms and audiovisual ideas that explode in this surprising film.

A woman takes a shower when she suddenly hears something. What is causing the sound and what is it that we see?

A woman takes a shower when she suddenly hears something. What is causing the sound and what is it that we see?

Pieces of memories restitute what remains from a lost love.

Pieces of memories restitute what remains from a lost love.

Pieces of memories restitute what remains from a lost love.

The Giallo film reinvented as an experimental S&M-tinged fever dream, told through a combination of color-gelled cinematography and jump-cut photographs, infused with dark sensuality and perverse cruelty. The short films of the directors of Amer are technically rawer than that film, but they show what was to come in terms of themes based on giallo films and an abstract style, from the use of still frames like in Chris Marker's La Jetée to harsh coloured lighting. They are worth seeing by themselves as a refining of their ideas into a fantastic debut feature film.

The Giallo film reinvented as an experimental S&M-tinged fever dream, told through a combination of color-gelled cinematography and jump-cut photographs, infused with dark sensuality and perverse cruelty. The short films of the directors of Amer are technically rawer than that film, but they show what was to come in terms of themes based on giallo films and an abstract style, from the use of still frames like in Chris Marker's La Jetée to harsh coloured lighting. They are worth seeing by themselves as a refining of their ideas into a fantastic debut feature film.

Short horror film from the directors of Amer.

Short horror film from the directors of Amer.

John D, a septuagenarian living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur, is intrigued by his roommate who reminds him of the craziest hours of the Riviera during the 1960s. At that time, he was a spy in a growing world full of promise. One day, this neighbor mysteriously disappears... and brings John face to face with his demons again: are his adversaries of yesteryear back to sow chaos in his idyllic world?

John D, a septuagenarian living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur, is intrigued by his roommate who reminds him of the craziest hours of the Riviera during the 1960s. At that time, he was a spy in a growing world full of promise. One day, this neighbor mysteriously disappears... and brings John face to face with his demons again: are his adversaries of yesteryear back to sow chaos in his idyllic world?

New York, ear­ly 60s. Glo­ria, a young painter in her twen­ties, lives in the under­ground artis­tic micro­cosm of the Big Apple. One night, she is attacked and raped by a mys­te­ri­ous char­ac­ter with white eyes. This aggres­sion pro­vokes an inner cat­a­clysm that inex­orably push­es her towards self-destruc­tion. In order to put an end to the chaos he has caused in her, Glo­ria decides to search for this man in the streets of New York.