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Tuesday, 15 August 2006 02:34 |
The lately ubiquitous Laurent Lucas ("Lemming") plays the hapless victim, Marc Stevens, a low-rent traveling singer whose van breaks down on a proverbial back road. After first coming into contact with a deranged looking man claiming to be looking for his lost dog, Marc happens upon a cozy inn, run by the deceptively friendly Bartel (Jackie Berroyer).
The inn¬keeper, clearly bereft after having been left by his wife, cautions Marc not to wander down into the village. But of course the young man ignores the warning and to his horror comes across a scene in which it's made clear the sexual predilections of the male villager tend toward bestiality.
But that is just the first of the horrors awaiting Marc, as it soon becomes clear that Bartel intends to make his latest guest a handy substitute for the wife who left him.
Director/co-screenwriter du Welz uses a slow, subtle approach in the beginning, carefully laying the groundwork for the more explicit horrors that are to come. But by the time it reaches its final act, the film rivals its American counterparts in intensity if not quite in explicit violence.
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