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Vincent Cassel (LA HAINE) plays a psychotic groundskeeper who welcomes in the daughter of his employee after she has enjoyed a hard night of partying with her friends (whom she also brings along). After Cassel's character spooks the visitors with a tale about Satan things really get spooky as strange events start to beset the house.
Also include second disc full of extras including 2 music videos, behind the scenes, featurettes and a short film : bastards de barbares
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Satan has great energy, combining the Banlieue exuberance of La Haine with surrealist grotesque horror not unlike Delicatessan. The threat of violence and aggression hangs over the film from the opening scene in a packed club, with its hyper-macho and sexually aggressive young male protagonists depicted in a way that seems like a parody of the archetype (one character even has a dog called Tyson - who also gets sexually interfered with in a scene that is in the context of the film, amongst the least disturbing).
Vincent Cassel (who also co-produced Satan) plays the role of Joseph with relish, creating a vaudivillian monster at his most threatening when being casually racist and misogynist before he orchestrates the inevitable violent and bloody conclusion.
As Geurilla Pen also notes in his review, Satan doesn't really let up long enough for the viewer to consider the possible subtexts of what unfolds, but suffice to say it transpires to be a sordid, near the knuckle and often uncomfortably funny recasting of the Christmas story as urban myth akin to the "guy wakes up without his kidney after sleeping with a good-looking girl he just met" yarn.
Don't watch this in the expectation of the usual kind of horror, it's another beast entirely, which manages to capture the anarchic flavour of French hip hop culture, and stages a gleefully repellent shaggy goat story which sets out more than anything to entertain those with open minds for demented and transgressive extreme films.
Vincent Cassel (who also co-produced Satan) plays the role of Joseph with relish, creating a vaudivillian monster at his most threatening when being casually racist and misogynist before he orchestrates the inevitable violent and bloody conclusion.
As Geurilla Pen also notes in his review, Satan doesn't really let up long enough for the viewer to consider the possible subtexts of what unfolds, but suffice to say it transpires to be a sordid, near the knuckle and often uncomfortably funny recasting of the Christmas story as urban myth akin to the "guy wakes up without his kidney after sleeping with a good-looking girl he just met" yarn.
Don't watch this in the expectation of the usual kind of horror, it's another beast entirely, which manages to capture the anarchic flavour of French hip hop culture, and stages a gleefully repellent shaggy goat story which sets out more than anything to entertain those with open minds for demented and transgressive extreme films.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Superior and highly entertaining French horror with the inimitable Vincent Cassel up to his usual high standards as Joseph the ever so slightly bizarre house keeper playing host to a group of young rough and ready French visitors on a weekend stay in the country.
The characterisation, dialogue, set pieces etc are so involving to the extent that the actual story is in danger of becoming consumed by it all, in my case it may take a second viewing to fully grasp the film as a whole and all the subtleties that can be missed when focusing on subtitles especially when characters are talking on top of each other, but this did not impair my enjoyment at all.
The blurb that accompanies the film is not entirely accurate, I don't think there was any realisation among the visitors just exactly what was going on asides from the general weirdness of the characters they were encountering. It always suprises me and I feel it is a great shame when people don't like films like this that strive to be different without compromising on entertaining the viewer. The film possibly dipped momentarily in the middle and some may not like the sometimes heavy concentration of young male attitudes and behaviour towards the females in the film though it is somewhat counter balanced by equally inappropriate behaviour by one of the female family members. A word of warning there are some initial heavy strobing effects at the start within the nightclub, it does state this on the box.
I would have to say this film is great, the acting generally is outstanding and the film seems to run at a frenetic pace but with no silly 'twists and turns' provided for those who like to proclaim how they saw it coming a mile off as soon as the opening credits rolled. A triumph for character acting, style and substance over gore ridden predictability.
The characterisation, dialogue, set pieces etc are so involving to the extent that the actual story is in danger of becoming consumed by it all, in my case it may take a second viewing to fully grasp the film as a whole and all the subtleties that can be missed when focusing on subtitles especially when characters are talking on top of each other, but this did not impair my enjoyment at all.
The blurb that accompanies the film is not entirely accurate, I don't think there was any realisation among the visitors just exactly what was going on asides from the general weirdness of the characters they were encountering. It always suprises me and I feel it is a great shame when people don't like films like this that strive to be different without compromising on entertaining the viewer. The film possibly dipped momentarily in the middle and some may not like the sometimes heavy concentration of young male attitudes and behaviour towards the females in the film though it is somewhat counter balanced by equally inappropriate behaviour by one of the female family members. A word of warning there are some initial heavy strobing effects at the start within the nightclub, it does state this on the box.
I would have to say this film is great, the acting generally is outstanding and the film seems to run at a frenetic pace but with no silly 'twists and turns' provided for those who like to proclaim how they saw it coming a mile off as soon as the opening credits rolled. A triumph for character acting, style and substance over gore ridden predictability.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A good film,I am always doubful when watching teen movies,but hey this is good .The whole feel of being a teen is caught wonderfully, ie guys who are bit lairy,gals who are teases ,all sorts of strange characters in the vain of the league of gentlemen,and vincent cassel ensuring that he will never be typecast by playing a super strange man.If you are lucky enough to have a surround system ,then try it on dts ,one of the best i have heard!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Very weird
One of the weaker french horror films I have seen. The plot involves some young people who go to a mansion after a club which is home to some crazy people who want to give birth to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Will
Vincent Cassel in an unexpected role
The most remarkable element in this somewhat useless movie is Vincent Cassel's scenery-biting role as a satanic French rustic with a hotline to the Prince of Darkness. Read more
Published on 5 April 2010 by Hywel James
Not far enough!
This is a good film. It hasn't really got anything to do with Satan as such, just tinged with a little hint of it. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2008 by Ramsey Tupper - Raven's Foot
french incest
This film features DOG WANKING.....and no, this is not a joke. A film which features plenty of incest in the french country side if nothing else. Read more
Published on 2 July 2008 by godzilla78
Not great
Vincent Cassel was outstanding in his wide eyed pyscho role. The French do horror very well but this wasnt one of the best, story line was very poor and predictable, the pace for... Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2008 by Quentin
Ridiculous Tripe
Seriously this has to be the worst film i have ever seen, no storyline, god awful acting and what was all that about with the dog and the tickling.......eeeeuch! Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2007 by M. Jenks
Rubbish
I couldn't disagree more with my learned reviewers. My wife and I thought it was duff and were quite annoyed that we had sat through the whole thing. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2007 by Annamaria Lockwood
Chronic waste of time!
What an absolute load of rubbish - ive seen more entertainment watching my car parked in the driveway! Read more
Published on 18 May 2007 by Mr. C. S. Smith
Awesome stuff
This French horror film reinvigorates the tired cliche of city folk encountering madness and terror in the country (a la The Hills Have Eyes, Deliverance etc) and if you like your... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2007 by The Sundance Kid
Will mess with your head
I love Vincent Cassel anyway but I've never seen him so good - the film is crazy - the tension and the horror are nicely offset with the comedy of the whole thing. Just brilliant!
Published on 28 Feb 2007 by Jenna Edwards
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