Fear(s) of the Dark
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Directed by | Blutch Charles Burns Marie Caillou Pierre di Sciullo Lorenzo Mattotti Richard McGuire |
Produced by | Valérie Schermann Christophe Jankovic |
Written by | Jerry Kramsky Michel Pirus Romain Slocombe Blutch Charles Burns Pierre di Sciullo |
Starring | Aure Atika Guillaume Depardieu Louisa Pili François Creton Christian Hecq Arthur H |
Narrated by | Nicole Garcia |
Distributed by | Diaphana Films |
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85 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Fear(s) of the Dark (French: Peur(s) du noir) is a 2007 French black-and-white animated horror anthology film on the subject of fear[1] written and directed by several notable comic book creators and graphic designers.[2] It premiered at the 2007 Roma Film Festival and released in France in February 2008.[3]
Plot
Throughout the film, the disembodied voice of a woman is heard; she express her fears through a monologue, making confessions from trivial anxiety, grotesque nightmares, to crippling sadness.
- The first story is a traditional animation written and directed by Blutch. It focuses on a sinister old man and his four vicious dogs, whom he restrains on leashes, as they trek through the countryside; one by one, the man releases each dog on a victim.
- The second story is a three-dimensional computer animation written and directed by Charles Burns. It focuses on an intelligent introvert, who has an immense interest in insects. In his adolescence, he captures a mysterious human-shaped beetle; it escapes, and yet the boy seems haunted by it. Come maturity, the boy becomes infatuated with a promiscuous woman; he invites her to his house one night, whereupon she seems to develop an obsession with him after waking up with a deep gash on her arm the next morning.
- The third story is a two-dimensional anime animation written by Romain Slocombe and directed by Marie Caillou. It focuses on a meek girl living in rural Japan who is receiving clinical treatment for nightmares, her doctor being a scientist who sedates her to experience these nightmares again. In her nightmares, she is bullied by her sadistic classmates, and is also haunted by the ghost of a samurai. All the Japanese characters unlike real Japanese have colored eyes.
- The fourth story is a traditional animation directed by Lorenzo Mattotti. It focuses on a young boy living in rural France. Having lost his uncle in a poaching trip, the boy confides in his friend, a mysterious orphan, who claims that the uncle could have been "mauled" by a beast from the sky. The friend disappears later on, and a professional ranger is hired to hunt down the alleged beast. A massive crocodile from the swamps is killed and displayed in the church, but the boy is haunted by shadows of his orphan friend.
- The fifth story is directed by Richard McGuire. The intervals are two-dimensional computer animations written and directed by Pierre di Sciullo.[4] The story focuses on a burly mustached man finding refuge against a blizzard in a pitch-black abandoned house. As he settles in, paranoia and dark forces begin to creep in around the man's fear. He uncovers a photo album of a woman, possibly the mistress of the house, who seemed to have a tendency to "cut" people out of her life.
References
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- ↑ Rome Film Festiva
- ↑ Twitchfilm review
External links
- Peur(s) du noir at Prima Linéa Productions (English)
- Fear(s) of the Dark at Metrodome Releasing (United Kingdom)
- Fear(s) of the Dark at IFC Films (United States)
- Fear(s) of the Dark at Madman Entertainment (Australia)
- Interview with Charles Burns at Cinefantastique
- Fear(s) of the Dark at AllMovie
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Fear(s) of the Dark at IMDb
- Fear(s) of the Dark at Metacritic
- Fear(s) of the Dark at Box Office Mojo
- Fear(s) of the Dark at Rotten Tomatoes
- Review at Horror Movies
Categories:
- 2007 films
- French-language films
- Articles containing French-language text
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Animated horror films
- Horror anthology films
- French black-and-white films
- Computer-animated films
- Films set in abandoned houses
- Films set in France
- Films set in Japan
- French animated films
- French horror films
- French films
- Monster movies
- Supernatural horror films
- Belgian animated films