‘The Soul Eater’ Review – Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo’s Investigative Thriller is Suitably Dark

French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the duo behind Inside, Leatherface, and The Deep House, step outside of horror ever so slightly for their latest, The Soul Eater. The adaptation of Alexis Laipsker‘s novel, penned by Annelyse Batrel and Ludovic Lefebvre, dabbles in the supernatural to lend atmosphere and intrigue to a standard investigative thriller. While its […]

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‘Inside’ One of the New French Extremity’s Strongest (and Bloodiest) Entries [Horror Queers Podcast]

Gimme dat baby. After wrapping up November with a look at cryptids in The Mothman Prophecies (listen), we kicked off December with a journey back into the land of giallo in Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (listen). Now we’re heading to France to discuss everyone’s favorite […]

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‘Inside’ Directors Begin Production on ‘The Soul Eater’ Novel Adaptation

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 […]

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‘The Deep House’ Quietly Swims to Paramount+

One of our favorite horror films of 2021 was the claustrophobic and haunting aquatic horror, The Deep House, which hails from French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent Inside, Livide, and Leatherface. After an EPIX premiere and subsequential release on PVOD, the haunting chiller is now streaming on Paramount+, Bloody Disgusting learned. The Deep House is shot almost […]

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Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s Previously Unreleased ‘Livid’ Comes to Shudder Next Month

In March, Shudder will spotlight the bold, visionary horror emerging from France in the twenty-first century, including essential titles from the boundary-pushing wave of films dubbed “New French Extremity.” That includes Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury‘s Livid, previously unavailable on streaming in the U.S. Livid follows Lucy (Chloé Coulloud), a young woman training to become an at-home […]

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‘The Deep House’: Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury On the Challenges of Filming a Haunted House Movie Underwater [Interview]

The latest by French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside, Livide, Among the Living) might be their most ambitious effort yet. The aquatic haunted house movie The Deep House (read my review here) sees two divers looking to draw in big numbers for their social channels but instead find themselves trapped in an underwater nightmare. Ahead of the […]

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[Review] ‘The Deep House’ Is an Eerie and Technically Ambitious Aquatic Nightmare

The very concept behind Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s latest is simultaneously ingenious and daunting. A haunted house that can only be accessed by diving to the bottom of a murky, deep lake exhilarates for its innovative new spin on the subgenre. Yet, the technique and precise, painstaking execution required to bring this ambitious aquatic nightmare to life […]

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Claustrophobic ‘The Deep House’ Clip Swims Through Murky Waters to a Shocking Discovery! [Exclusive]

“At the bottom of this lake… there’s a perfectly preserved house.” Halloween might be over by EPIX is keeping the partying going with their claustrophobic and haunting aquatic horror, The Deep House, which hails from French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent Inside, Livide, and Leatherface. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from the […]

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Fresh ‘The Deep House’ Stills Tease the Horror Film Shot Almost Entirely Underwater [Images]

“At the bottom of this lake… there’s a perfectly preserved house.” French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent Inside, as well as Livide and Leatherface, are next diving into aquatic horror with The Deep House, in which a couple of divers discover a haunting in the depths of a lake. We’ve already shared the trailer and several […]

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‘The Deep House’: ‘Inside’ Filmmakers Head to an Underwater Haunted House in November [Trailer]

“At the bottom of this lake… there’s a perfectly preserved house.” French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, best known for their ultra-violent Inside, as well as Livid and Leatherface, are next diving into aquatic horror with The Deep House, in which a couple of divers discover a haunting in the depths of a lake. Yes, we’re talking about an aquatic horror […]

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Directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury Summon ‘Kandisha’ in Shudder’s Supernatural Slasher [Trailer]

“When invoked, she demands the lives of six men.” Up next from Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside, Livid, Leatherface) is the Candyman-esque supernatural chiller Kandisha, which is headed to Shudder later this month. The Shudder Original premieres July 22. Find the trailer below, via io9. In Kandisha, “It is summer break and best friends […]

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