With a Friend Like Harry (2000)
May 31, 2001Sinister Houseguest
French psycho-thriller where Sergi Lopez gives an unnervingly charming performance as a psychopathic schoolfriend who inserts himself into Laurent Lucas's life
Laurent Lucas
In My Skin (2002)
Jul 3, 2003Self-Mutilation Obsession
Fascinatingly perverse film directed and written by its star French actress Marina de Van who plays a woman who becomes obsessed with mutilating her own skin
The Ordeal (2004)
Jul 24, 2005Backwoods Brutality
Belgian-made venture into Backwoods Brutality territory that keeps heading into stranger and more disturbing places until it almost seems to be taking place on another planet altogether
Lemming (2005)
Mar 20, 2009Surreal Identity Exchange
Surreal very Lynchian French film in which a deranged Charlotte Rampling shoots herself and then appears to possess Laurent Lucas's wife Charlotte Gainsbourg
Alleluia (2014)
Oct 15, 2014Modernised Retelling of the Martha Beck-Raymond Fernandez Killings
The story of the true-life killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, most famously adapted into The Honeymoon Killers, gets a retelling from Fabrice du Welz with a modern updating
Raw (2016)
May 28, 2017Cannibalism
Undeniably shocking French film about a vegetarian girl who is required to eat raw animal meat during a university hazing ritual and thereafter becomes obsessed with eating human flesh