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Christmas Eve. In a Paris nightclub, Bart, Ladj and Thai meet two gorgeous girls, Eve and Yasmin. Drunk and out of control, Bart provokes a ruck. Pissed off, the barman smashes a bottle over his skull and kicks him out into the street. All three guys lust blatantly after Eve, who invites them and Yasmin to spend the weekend at her parents' place in the country. They arrive at dawn, and are met by Joseph and Marie, the caretakers. Marie, hostile and heavily pregnant, is busy making a doll for Christmas. Without paying her too much attention, the gang visits a nearby hot spring, where Bart picks a fight with a group of local kids. A violent confrontation ensues. One of the bumpkins tears a clump of hair from Bart's head, before Joseph intervenes. Clearly afraid of the sinister caretaker, the locals depart, cursing as they go. Back at the house, our heroes eat a Christmas dinner of roasted goat. As night falls, their drunken discussion turns to sex, to evil, to the Devil. Joseph, increasingly unsettling, tells the horrible story of a peasant possessed by Satan and forced to impregnate his own sister. Their cursed child was born on Christmas Day. Our lads are too busy chatting up the girls to notice the diabolical trap closing slowly around them, while Marie finishes her strange doll with scraps of Bart's clothing and the tuft of his hair. Then all Hell breaks loose... (Wild Bunch Distribution)

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Critiques (2)

POMO 

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français Un film de Noël peu conventionnel pour un public sélectionné. Un schéma d'horreur classique et un clin d'œil à Texas Chain Saw, mais abordé de manière comique, à faible budget. Le malaise et le dégoût sont présents dans une moindre mesure que dans les films d'horreur similaires, le film n'est pas à prendre trop au sérieux. La stupidité des rednecks cependant séduit, et Vincent Cassel est éblouissant dans son rôle excentrique et sympathique. ()

J*A*S*M 

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anglais I quite like this kind of films (and I mostly don’t care that they aren’t original), but this one just didn’t work. The yokels are great, but there’s something wrong when the most likeable character in a film is a psychopathic madman. Really, it’s hard to imagine a worse choice for the heroes, and before Vincent Cassel showed up, I was seriously considering turning the film off. On top of that, it’s quite boring for most of the time and the final carnage is not even that interesting. Besides the characters, what drove me mad was the music score, it’s the kind of stuff that makes me run away when I hear it under normal circumstances. Definitely a disappointment and one of the worst redneck movies I’ve ever seen. ()