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6.2 Sheitan
Horror, Comedy, Mystery & Suspense, Art House & International
Four friends looking for a good time are lured into a strange and dangerous netherworld in this wildly offbeat horror film from France. It's Christmas Eve, and twentysomethings Bart (Olivier Barthelemy), Ladj (Ladj Ly), Thai (Nico Le Phat Tan), and Yasmine (Leila Bekhti) are bored and looking for fun. They end up at a rowdy dance club where, after Bart gets into a fight, they meet Eve (Roxane Mesquida), a sexy girl who seems to take a liking to the three guys. Eve invites the foursome to come back to her place in the country; the guys are more than game, and Yasmine tags along for the ride. Eve's house is a ramshackle mansion overflowing with broken plastic dolls and looked after by Joseph (Vincent Cassel), a cheerful but subnormal handyman whose pregnant wife spends most of her time upstairs. Before long, some of Eve's friends from town come by, and while the women are sexually accommodating, Yasmine soon gets the feeling something is wrong, and in time the guys reach the same conclusion. Joseph's topics of conversation become downright creepy as he talks in great detail about incest and Satanism with his guests, and Christmas Day devolves into an orgy of violence and perversity. Sheitan received its North American premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
Rating
NR
Director
Kim Chapiron
Studio
Mars Distribution
Writer
Christian Chapiron, Kim Chapiron
  • Odd horror-comedy that takes too long to decide what it wants to be. Vaguely interesting for Vincent Cassel's performance (thought this could be said for everything he's every appeared in) but otherwise highly forgettable.
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  • Not scary but disturbing in many ways. Although it was fun to watch, there wasn't much gore or scary stuff, but instead some good intense build-up. Also, the acting was good specially from Vincent Cassel, and the characters although unlikeable at first, kind of became fun and with rooting for at the end. And even though there wasn't much of a plot and the ending was kind of meh, it was still a fun ride. ~December 13, 2014~
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  • My type of horror movie complete with a deliciously over-the-top performance by Vincent Cassel. Story wise no new ground is broken here, this one is all in the telling of the tale. We do get new characters, ones who seem to deserve what they get quite a bit more than most flicks of this ilk.
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  • The directors first film so I cut him a little slack. The film had an obvious direction but had some great brutal graphic scenes typical of French horror as well as the disturbing. I enjoyed it but not as good as l'interior.
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  • Vincent Cassel is really superb in this ... a really balls out crazy performance. The first half of the film that essentially introduces him and his family is immensely fun. The second half starts to really drag before pretty much completely falling apart. By the climax, all sense of logic is gone and it takes a long time to build to a reveal that pretty much anyone has seen coming for the last 40 minutes.
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  • French Deliverance... But funnier.... Vincent Cassell is awesome!
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  • I give this movie 3 1/2 stars just for Vincent Cassels' performance as the completely psychotic character Joseph. Man he had me cracking up with the weird shit he kept doing. Not really a horror movie but had some of the most bizarre characters i've seen in a while.
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  • Obnoxious amoral twentysomethings party at a creepy French provincial estate where the caretaker has a permanent unsettling grin, and nothing is as it seems. Ambitious attempt at a ROSEMARY'S BABY type atmosphere, but the young protagonists are intolerable and live to annoy the audience for far too long, and the multiple false endings were a bad idea. Gets worse on a second viewing. This movie really hates young people, which is cool and all, but it's a bit over the top.
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  • It is good to see that the French are inbred Satanists.
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  • Fun French take on the "crazy country family" horror subgenre. Not many likeable characters amongst the potential victims, though - this could be a negative or a plus, depending upon your point of view. A slow build, but a decent pay-off. The real attraction here is Vincent Cassel having fun in his role as the rather creepy groundskeeper (though the makeup does make him look a bit like "Nigel Thornberry").
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  • A very fcuked up and disturbing movie. Reminded me of Texas Chainsaw Massacre but worse.
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  • Not the greatest horror movie but Vincent Cassels creepy role alone was well worth the watch.
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  • This "horror comedy", is quite frankly, more on a comedy side. For the most part, it's a fun ride, with great visuals, clever cutting, and full of wicked humor. Unfortunately it starts falling apart towards the end, where the filmmakers seemed to have run out of ideas and decided to make it "scary". It ended up being just silly. It's a shame that after such great buildup they let all the steam out instead of going out with a bang.
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  • A great example of a Director that cannot be trusted! Disturbing and head swirling. If a cast of characters ever deserved what they get, it is this lot!
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  • I remember this being quite funny, along the lines of funny games. However I think there was some bits that lacked, like the ending.
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