Mad Movies 368 - Fevrier 2023
-En couverture, The Last of US. Visible sur Prime Vidéo, l'adaptation télévisée très attendue du déchirant survival horror de Naughty Dog, parvient enfin à réaliser l’union sacrée du jeu vidéo et de la fiction dite « classique ». Un petit miracle dont nous parle l’un de ses deux parrains, le scénariste Craig Mazin.
-Hommage Ruggero Deodato : l’enfant terrible des glorieuses heures du bis transalpin n’est plus. Retour sur la carrière de Ruggero Deodato, dont le terminal Cannibal Holocaust dissimule d’autres faits d’armes tout aussi féroces.
-Knock at the Cabin : M. Night Shyamalan confronte l’Amérique à ses démons avec cet impitoyable huis clos qui soumet ses personnages à un inexorable mécanisme sacrificiel. Analyse en règle de ce cruel bijou d’orfèvrerie.
-Carrière M. Night Shyamalan : le réalisateur de Sixième sens se livre généreusement sur l’ensemble de sa carrière et revient sur les préceptes qui l’ont guidé à travers une filmographie d’une belle constance, mais paradoxalement secouée de quelques tempêtes créatives.
-Dossier Les adaptations d'Edgar Allan Poe : alors que Scott Cooper met en scène Edgar Allan Poe dans son ténébreux The Pale Blue Eye (visible sur Netflix), petite sélection des adaptations les plus mémorables et singulières du poète de Baltimore, entre trahisons opératiques et détournements bis.
-The Fabelmans : Steven Spielberg revisite les fondations de sa vocation à travers un film sensible et magique où explose, une fois de plus, son art à la fois réflexif et exaltant de la mise en scène.
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-Hommage Ruggero Deodato : l’enfant terrible des glorieuses heures du bis transalpin n’est plus. Retour sur la carrière de Ruggero Deodato, dont le terminal Cannibal Holocaust dissimule d’autres faits d’armes tout aussi féroces.
-Knock at the Cabin : M. Night Shyamalan confronte l’Amérique à ses démons avec cet impitoyable huis clos qui soumet ses personnages à un inexorable mécanisme sacrificiel. Analyse en règle de ce cruel bijou d’orfèvrerie.
-Carrière M. Night Shyamalan : le réalisateur de Sixième sens se livre généreusement sur l’ensemble de sa carrière et revient sur les préceptes qui l’ont guidé à travers une filmographie d’une belle constance, mais paradoxalement secouée de quelques tempêtes créatives.
-Dossier Les adaptations d'Edgar Allan Poe : alors que Scott Cooper met en scène Edgar Allan Poe dans son ténébreux The Pale Blue Eye (visible sur Netflix), petite sélection des adaptations les plus mémorables et singulières du poète de Baltimore, entre trahisons opératiques et détournements bis.
-The Fabelmans : Steven Spielberg revisite les fondations de sa vocation à travers un film sensible et magique où explose, une fois de plus, son art à la fois réflexif et exaltant de la mise en scène.
Et plein d'autres délices 100% MadMovies !
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- DirectorChris McKayStarsNicholas HoultNicolas CageAwkwafinaRenfield, Dracula's henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum for decades, longs for a life away from the Count, his various demands, and all of the bloodshed that comes with them.
- DirectorMichael DupretStarsHannah MciverJasmine DaoudSamuel Van der ZwalmenAs the #1 social influencer at her high school, Anna is still discovering the advantages and drawbacks of this new status. Home alone, she's determined to gain as many followers as possible, but when the line between real and virtual is getting blurry, the night becomes bloody.
- DirectorEli RothStarsGina GershonCate BlanchettAriana GreenblattBased on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.
- DirectorAri AsterStarsJoaquin PhoenixPatti LuPoneAmy RyanFollowing the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.
- DirectorPatrick ReaStarsJohn ThomsonChris BylsmaSarah McGuireAmy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
- DirectorSteve WolshStarsArielle RayceneEllie GonsalvesDanielle MathersAudra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle about the fact they don't approve of the home's new owner.
- CreatorSeth RogenEvan GoldbergEric KripkeStarsJaz SinclairLizze BroadwayMaddie PhillipsFrom the world of "The Boys" comes "Gen V," which explores the first generation of superheroes to know that their super powers are from Compound V. These heroes put their physical and moral boundaries to the test competing for the school's top ranking.
- DirectorCarter SmithStarsCooper KochJena MaloneMark PattonFollows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy.
- DirectorPablo AbsentoStarsBen McKenzieBojana NovakovicSawyer JonesIt follows a mother and two sons vacationing in Japan. Their younger son almost drowns in a lake, and soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.
- DirectorTakeshi KushidaStarsToshiaki InomataToki KoinumaHideki NagaiA misogynistic photographer begins a twisted romance with a woman suffering from body dysmorphia.
- DirectorHervé FreiburgerStarsPaul HamyHéloïse BousquetElisa LasowskiOn a freezing night, they will face an anguishing darkness.
- DirectorHervé FreiburgerStarsDan BronchinsonAnne Catherine LejealAden NokicEverything seems normal and quiet, however, in the deep of the corn field something evil is waiting.
- DirectorHervé FreiburgerCédric HachardSébastien MilhouStarsAdrien MarikYves ArnaultPascaline FerrerThree stories. Three wishes. A lot of trouble.
- DirectorYeon Sang-hoStarsKang Soo-younKim Hyun-jooRyu Kyung-sooOn an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.
- DirectorHalina ReijnStarsAmandla StenbergMaria BakalovaMyha'laWhen a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
- DirectorJean-François RichetStarsGerard ButlerMike ColterTony GoldwynA pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he's forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.
- DirectorDan BerkRobert OlsenStarsMaika MonroeJake LacyMatthew Yang KingFollows a young couple who take a remote backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest and face sinister events leading them to realize that everything about the place is not as it seems.
- DirectorAriel EscalanteStarsCarlos UreñaSylvia SossaEsteban Brenes SerranoThe town Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret-the ghost of his wife who visits him within the mist.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsAngèle MacHatikAhmed Abdel LaouiThe inhabitants of a high-rise building wake up one morning to discover that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange black matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsGene TierneyRex HarrisonGeorge SandersIn 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsAlain DelonRichard ConteCarla GravinaA mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications and many bloody shootouts ensue.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLincoln MaazelHarry AlbackerPhyllis CasterwilerAn elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
- DirectorAndrew GaynordStarsGeorgina CampbellChristopher FairbankJoshua McGuirePete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him. Is he being punished, is he paranoid, or is he part of some sick joke?
- DirectorOliver ParkStarsNick BloodEmily WisemanPaul KayeA family struggling with loss find themselves at the mercy of an ancient demon trying to destroy them from the inside.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsMassimo FoschiMe Me LaiIvan RassimovAn oil prospector is captured and imprisoned by a violent and primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippines' rain forest. He manages to escape with a female hostage, and begins searching for his missing companion and their airplane.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsRobert KermanFrancesca CiardiPerry PirkanenDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsLisa BlountLeonard MannWillie AamesA reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
- DirectorRuggero DeodatoStarsDavid HessAnnie BelleChristian BorromeoTwo low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.
- CreatorNeil DruckmannCraig MazinStarsPedro PascalBella RamseyAnna TorvAfter a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsDave BautistaJonathan GroffBen AldridgeWhile vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteMalcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisSamuel L. JacksonRobin WrightA man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsMel GibsonJoaquin PhoenixRory CulkinA widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsSigourney WeaverWilliam HurtJoaquin PhoenixA series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsNoah RingerNicola Peltz BeckhamJackson RathboneAang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsOlivia DeJongeEd OxenbouldDeanna DunaganTwo siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsJames McAvoyAnya Taylor-JoyHaley Lu RichardsonThree girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsJames McAvoyBruce WillisSamuel L. JacksonSecurity guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsGael García BernalVicky KriepsRufus SewellA vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they're relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiDavid MannersAmerican honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiLester MatthewsA brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
- DirectorMichael CuestaStarsJosh LucasLena HeadeyBrian CoxA man's newly transplanted heart leads him on a dangerous journey to find out who murdered its donor.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsJennifer O'NeillGabriele FerzettiMarc PorelA clairvoyant woman discovers a skeleton in a wall in her husband's house, and seeks to find the truth about what happened to the victim.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMark DamonMyrna FaheyUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsEdwige FenechAnita StrindbergLuigi PistilliA series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsAnthony FranciosaMichèle MercierKlaus KinskiThe journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ghosts of the castle search for blood to tide them over for another year. In the castle Foster meet and fall in love with Elizabeth Blackwood.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceBarbara SteeleJohn KerrIn the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
- DirectorScott CooperStarsChristian BaleHarry MellingSimon McBurneyA world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMichelle WilliamsGabriel LaBellePaul DanoGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
- DirectorKim Hong SunStarsSeo In-GukJang Dong-yoonJung So-minFollows dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape attempt leads to a riot.
- DirectorLionel DelplanqueStarsMarie TrintignantSuzanne MacAleeseMaud BuquetA group of young actors stay overnight in their host's castle only to be hunted by a serial killer.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsÉvelyne DandryFrançois MarthouretMarina de VanThe adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you want-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband it all starts with the arrival of an innocent-looking rat.
- DirectorLaurent TuelStarsKarin ViardCharles BerlingLudivine SagnierContent with two children in an upper class French marriage, a woman finds herself faced with visions of rape, violence and the supernatural. Her husband, a successful businessman also starts experiencing hallucinations in which he often ends up physically hurt. Their babysitter hangs herself and the children begin acting strangely, their sadistic behavior arousing suspicion. It becomes apparent that the children's bodies have been possessed/inhabited by two dirty, old people.
- DirectorGiordano GederliniStarsCyril MouraliMaï Anh LeYasuaki KurataA descendant of a cursed, ancient clan, is investigating the gruesome murder of a video game designer.
- DirectorChristophe GansStarsSamuel Le BihanMark DacascosJérémie RenierIn 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
- DirectorHervé RenohStarsPatrick Dell'IsolaMoussa MaaskriJulie-Anne RothFour prisoners escape and seek refuge in a Cistercian monastery, where nothing is what it seems. Isolated from the rest of the world, begins a nightmare among the fugitives, willing to kill to protect their freedom and monks whose hostages.
- DirectorHervé RenohStarsMarc DuretMaureen HarrisonDenis LavantSomewhere, in some unnamed country, a civil war rages on. A small commando falls in an ambush set up by a deadly sniper. The leader watches as his men fall one by one. But who is the enemy?
- DirectorJulien MagnatStarsOlivia BonamyAdrià ColladoJeffrey RibierHeroines Mallory, Vena Cava and Talking Tina fight the fallen angel Abaddon and his accomplices vampire Lady Valentine and succubus Morphine.
- DirectorEric ValetteStarsGérald LarochePhilippe LaudenbachClovis CornillacFour prisoners find an ancient diary in the wall of their cell which might be the key to getting out.
- DirectorWill DoyleTom HeatonStarsJessie BuckleyPaul KayeFehinti BalogunA documentary film crew receives a mysterious invite to a replica of the 'Murder Castle' of H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer. They soon discover that they're being watched, and there is much more at stake than their viewing figures.
- DirectorRamón HernáezStarsFlorian HutterMargeaux LampleyTiffany HofstetterAn original story about obsession, manipulation and madness, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo.
- CreatorSara Isabella Jønsson VeddeNicolas Winding RefnStarsAngela BundalovicAndreas LykkeLi Ii ZhangA young heroine, Miu, who travels through Copenhagen's criminal netherworld.
- DirectorTom McLoughlinMichael SchroederStarsMeg TillyMelissa NewmanRobin EvansAs part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.