Christopher Gans has made some great movies and gets little credit. There's his better than the game Silent Hill, Crying Freeman, his segments in Necronomicon and the incredible Brotherhood of the Wolf.
When he was a a student, he made this film, which pays tribute to Bava, complete with a dedication at the end. And you know, in just around 15 minutes, Gans gets it. He understands how giallo works and instead of making the kind of modern gialli that everyone tries these days, he crafts a film that looks bad with love and then goes forward, taking what works and create a near-lunatic energy that feels like where you'd hoped Argento would have kept going after Tenebre and Opera.
Only two actors are credited, Aissa Djabri as Le témoin (the witness) and Isabelle Wendling as La victim (the victim). One must assume like all giallo directors of ill repute that Gans is the killer or at least their hands.
Phillipe Gans and Jean-François Torrès created the music for this and much like the visuals, it takes the sound of the form and makes it more hard driving and powerful while Jérôme Robert has gone on to plenty of work in the French film industry.
This just knocked me out.
When he was a a student, he made this film, which pays tribute to Bava, complete with a dedication at the end. And you know, in just around 15 minutes, Gans gets it. He understands how giallo works and instead of making the kind of modern gialli that everyone tries these days, he crafts a film that looks bad with love and then goes forward, taking what works and create a near-lunatic energy that feels like where you'd hoped Argento would have kept going after Tenebre and Opera.
Only two actors are credited, Aissa Djabri as Le témoin (the witness) and Isabelle Wendling as La victim (the victim). One must assume like all giallo directors of ill repute that Gans is the killer or at least their hands.
Phillipe Gans and Jean-François Torrès created the music for this and much like the visuals, it takes the sound of the form and makes it more hard driving and powerful while Jérôme Robert has gone on to plenty of work in the French film industry.
This just knocked me out.