You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines from the fictional Roquenoix. As shot by Simon Roca, this remote hamlet in northeastern France isn’t a ghost town so much as a burial ground where humans and buildings alike are waiting to rot. A grandiose sanatorium once towered over the tree-shrouded hills, bringing in enough cash and tourists to fill the village’s coffers. But when a motorway was built across the valley, the tourists disappeared, the sanatorium was abandoned; and the few who stayed behind were left to wrestle with an ancestral legend and a series of murders that may or may not be connected with it.
The single most terrifying thing in The Soul Eater isn’t the titular devourer, but that spectral, lifeless town where its victims are stranded.
The single most terrifying thing in The Soul Eater isn’t the titular devourer, but that spectral, lifeless town where its victims are stranded.
- 2/2/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside, Leatherface, The Deep House) are back with The Soul Eater, and we’ve got a new image for you today.
Check it out below, along with a better look at a previously released shot above.
The upcoming movie is an adaptation of the novel by Alexis Laipsker.
In The Soul Eater, “The chilling drama unfolds against the backdrop of a mountain village where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent and gruesome deaths.”
Virginie Ledoyen (Rabid Dogs, The Beach), Paul Hamy (Get In), and Sandrine Bonnaire star.
The directors reteam with Kandisha cinematographer Simon Roca for their latest.
The Soul Eater is produced by Phase 4 Productions and Place du Marché Productions and will receive a theatrical release in France. No word yet on a US release date. Stay tuned.
Check it out below, along with a better look at a previously released shot above.
The upcoming movie is an adaptation of the novel by Alexis Laipsker.
In The Soul Eater, “The chilling drama unfolds against the backdrop of a mountain village where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent and gruesome deaths.”
Virginie Ledoyen (Rabid Dogs, The Beach), Paul Hamy (Get In), and Sandrine Bonnaire star.
The directors reteam with Kandisha cinematographer Simon Roca for their latest.
The Soul Eater is produced by Phase 4 Productions and Place du Marché Productions and will receive a theatrical release in France. No word yet on a US release date. Stay tuned.
- 11/27/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Up next from French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent slasher Inside and aquatic haunted house tale The Deep House, is an adaptation of grisly thriller The Soul Eater by Alexis Laipsker. Thanks to Deadline, a new image teases the eerie horror feature.
Maury announced production on the film earlier this year via Instagram, the seventh feature film for Maury and Bustillo.
In The Soul Eater, “The chilling drama unfolds against the backdrop of a mountain village where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent and gruesome deaths.”
The directors reteam with Kandisha cinematographer Simon Roca for their latest.
Virginie Ledoyen (Rabid Dogs, The Beach), Paul Hamy (Get In), and Sandrine Bonnaire star.
The novel’s official synopsis also indicates another bloody genre film for the filmmakers:
“‘He didn’t scream. They never scream.
Maury announced production on the film earlier this year via Instagram, the seventh feature film for Maury and Bustillo.
In The Soul Eater, “The chilling drama unfolds against the backdrop of a mountain village where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent and gruesome deaths.”
The directors reteam with Kandisha cinematographer Simon Roca for their latest.
Virginie Ledoyen (Rabid Dogs, The Beach), Paul Hamy (Get In), and Sandrine Bonnaire star.
The novel’s official synopsis also indicates another bloody genre film for the filmmakers:
“‘He didn’t scream. They never scream.
- 10/26/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The French filmmaking duo of Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo caught international attention with their debut feature, the brutal home invasion story Inside, in 2007. Since then, Maury and Bustillo have continued working in the horror genre, making the films Livid, Among the Living, Leatherface (a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Kandisha, and The Deep House. Now Maury has taken to Instagram to announce that they have officially started production on their seventh feature, an adaptation of the Alexis Laipsker novel The Soul Eater (a.k.a. Le mangeur d’âmes). Laipsker also celebrated the start of production, tweeting out a promotional image that reveals The Soul Eater stars Virginie Ledoyen (The Beach), Paul Hamy (The Ornithologist), and Sandrine Bonnaire (Women at War). You can take a look at that image at the bottom of this article.
Maury shared an image of a clapperboard that reveals the cinematographer on The Soul Eater is Simon Roca,...
Maury shared an image of a clapperboard that reveals the cinematographer on The Soul Eater is Simon Roca,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent slasher Inside and aquatic haunted house tale The Deep House, are tackling an adaptation of the grisly thriller The Soul Eater by Alexis Laipsker.
Maury announced on Instagram that production has officially begun on The Soul Eater, the seventh feature film for Maury and Bustillo. Author Laipsker also took to Twitter to share that production is now underway, along with artwork that teases an ominous tone below.
The novel’s official synopsis indicates another bloody genre film for the filmmakers:
“‘He didn’t scream. They never scream.’ Some well-kept secrets sometimes turn out to be too heavy to bear. When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply uneventfully in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulfur resurfaces. Urged on by their respective departments, Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are...
Maury announced on Instagram that production has officially begun on The Soul Eater, the seventh feature film for Maury and Bustillo. Author Laipsker also took to Twitter to share that production is now underway, along with artwork that teases an ominous tone below.
The novel’s official synopsis indicates another bloody genre film for the filmmakers:
“‘He didn’t scream. They never scream.’ Some well-kept secrets sometimes turn out to be too heavy to bear. When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply uneventfully in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulfur resurfaces. Urged on by their respective departments, Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are...
- 3/28/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Alain Delage’s (Grégoire Colin) taxi driver (Grigoriy Gasparyan) flaps his wings in Nora Martirosyan’s Should The Wind Drop (Si Le Vent Tombe), Armenia’s Oscar submission Photo: Sister Productions
Fabulous shots of the landscape (cinematography by Simon Roca), marked by ruins and sheep, by demarcation lines and mist, edited seamlessly by Yorgos Lamprinos, invite our gaze and engage our curiosity in Nora Martirosyan’s debut feature Should The Wind Drop (Si Le Vent Tombe), Armenia’s Oscar submission, produced by Annabella Nezri, Julie Paratian, and Ani Vorskanyan).
Nora Martirosyan with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The Armenians of Karabakh have a very tight sense of humour. When I go there, I laugh from morning till evening.”
Alain Delage (Claire Denis regular Grégoire Colin), an international auditor is sent to inspect a remote airport of an independent republic in the Caucasus mountains. He is teased and coaxed by the locals as “the...
Fabulous shots of the landscape (cinematography by Simon Roca), marked by ruins and sheep, by demarcation lines and mist, edited seamlessly by Yorgos Lamprinos, invite our gaze and engage our curiosity in Nora Martirosyan’s debut feature Should The Wind Drop (Si Le Vent Tombe), Armenia’s Oscar submission, produced by Annabella Nezri, Julie Paratian, and Ani Vorskanyan).
Nora Martirosyan with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The Armenians of Karabakh have a very tight sense of humour. When I go there, I laugh from morning till evening.”
Alain Delage (Claire Denis regular Grégoire Colin), an international auditor is sent to inspect a remote airport of an independent republic in the Caucasus mountains. He is teased and coaxed by the locals as “the...
- 12/10/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A man arrives at an airport. Situated in a remote place, surrounded by vast desolate landscapes, this modern building feels like a mirage, not so much out of place as out of time. The airport, he knows, is empty though not abandoned. There may be no planes but there are employees ambling about, traffic controllers busying themselves up in the tower and cleaning ladies complaining about their Sisyphean tasks. The man is expected, after all. It is he who will assess whether this “cathedral of an airport,” as it’s described to him, with its showy architectural flourishes that stand in stark contrast to its dusty surroundings, will finally be vetted and approved for operation.
The premise for Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop” reads like a short story. There’s a minimalism to its plot and characters — not to mention its setting — that makes it feel like a distilled proposition,...
The premise for Nora Martirosyan’s “Should the Wind Drop” reads like a short story. There’s a minimalism to its plot and characters — not to mention its setting — that makes it feel like a distilled proposition,...
- 11/12/2021
- by Manuel Betancourt
- Variety Film + TV
Kandisha
French horror duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are set to return with a vengeance in 2020, potentially premiering two features. The first looks to be their fifth project, Kandisha, produced by Delphine Clot and Guillaume Lemans and stars Mathilde La Musse, Samarcande Saadi, Suzy Bemba and Nassim Lyes Si Ahmed. Simon Roca. Composer Raf Keunen (who works regularly with Michael R. Roskam) provides the score, and their usual editor Baxter is also on hand.…...
French horror duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are set to return with a vengeance in 2020, potentially premiering two features. The first looks to be their fifth project, Kandisha, produced by Delphine Clot and Guillaume Lemans and stars Mathilde La Musse, Samarcande Saadi, Suzy Bemba and Nassim Lyes Si Ahmed. Simon Roca. Composer Raf Keunen (who works regularly with Michael R. Roskam) provides the score, and their usual editor Baxter is also on hand.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
La pièce rapportée
For his third feature, Antonin Peretjatko commences on the comedic La pièce rapportée, produced by Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe and recruits an impressive cast with Anaïs Demoustier, Josiane Balasko, Philippe Katerine, William Lebghil and Sergi Lopez. Simon Roca (who lensed Peretjatko’s previous two films as well as F.J. Ossang’s 9 Digits and the upcoming Kandisha for Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury) returns as cinematographer. Peretjatko’s 2013 debut The Rendezvous of Deja Vous premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and scored a Cesar nod for Best First Feature. His sophomore feature Struggle for Life (2016) was programmed in Locarno and named one of the Best 10 Films of the year by Cahiers du Cinema.…...
For his third feature, Antonin Peretjatko commences on the comedic La pièce rapportée, produced by Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe and recruits an impressive cast with Anaïs Demoustier, Josiane Balasko, Philippe Katerine, William Lebghil and Sergi Lopez. Simon Roca (who lensed Peretjatko’s previous two films as well as F.J. Ossang’s 9 Digits and the upcoming Kandisha for Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury) returns as cinematographer. Peretjatko’s 2013 debut The Rendezvous of Deja Vous premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and scored a Cesar nod for Best First Feature. His sophomore feature Struggle for Life (2016) was programmed in Locarno and named one of the Best 10 Films of the year by Cahiers du Cinema.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
There are two Sophias in French director Virgil Vernier’s clever, cunning, chilling fifth feature. The first is its setting, the eponymous “Sophia Antipolis,” a technology park in the south of France, a place self-consciously designed as an experiment in social engineering, where an international community of professionals would, it was hoped, create an environment of innovation beneficial to the computing, pharma and biotech companies it comprised.
The second Sophia is the teenage girl whose charred remains are found in a deserted area of the park, and whose grisly death becomes only the most dramatic emblem of the thrumming paranoia and low-level despair that instead characterize the region, according to Vernier’s unsettling vision. This is a mercilessly pessimistic appraisal of the attempt to prefabricate a society along idealistic but corporate lines, which results in diversity without integration and a rootless modernity that exists in isolation of history, and all its lessons of wisdom.
The second Sophia is the teenage girl whose charred remains are found in a deserted area of the park, and whose grisly death becomes only the most dramatic emblem of the thrumming paranoia and low-level despair that instead characterize the region, according to Vernier’s unsettling vision. This is a mercilessly pessimistic appraisal of the attempt to prefabricate a society along idealistic but corporate lines, which results in diversity without integration and a rootless modernity that exists in isolation of history, and all its lessons of wisdom.
- 6/15/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Curiosa
French director Lou Jeunet makes her directorial debut with Curiosa, produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films. Lensed by Simon Roca, Jeunet’s project stars Niels Schneider, Noemie Merlant, Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Mathilde Warnier and Benjamin Lavernhe. Jeunet has directed several television features over the past two decades (she got her big break via François Truffaut’s scribe Claude de Givray landing her Tout ce qui Brille with Annie Girardot and Isabelle Carré) and she recently worked as an assistant to Robin Campillo on Bpm. Curiosa is her first stint behind the camera since 2004.…...
French director Lou Jeunet makes her directorial debut with Curiosa, produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films. Lensed by Simon Roca, Jeunet’s project stars Niels Schneider, Noemie Merlant, Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Mathilde Warnier and Benjamin Lavernhe. Jeunet has directed several television features over the past two decades (she got her big break via François Truffaut’s scribe Claude de Givray landing her Tout ce qui Brille with Annie Girardot and Isabelle Carré) and she recently worked as an assistant to Robin Campillo on Bpm. Curiosa is her first stint behind the camera since 2004.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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