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.’ 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 forced to join forces to discover the truth.”
The Soul Eater is produced by Phase 4 Productions and Place du Marché Productions and will receive a theatrical release in France.
Deadline reports that Paris-based WTFilms has boarded The Soul Eater ahead of next week’s American Film Market, where they’ll screen a promo of the film. It’s currently in post-production, which means news of The Soul Eater‘s release plan likely isn’t far behind.
WTFilms is also behind recent festival darling Infested, previously titled Vermin. Trace Thurman said in his review out of Fantastic Fest, “Vaniček has crafted what is possibly the best “when spiders attack” movie in over 30 years, and that is no small feat. Infested, for lack of a better phrase, has plenty of bite.”
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