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Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthélémy, Roxane Mesquida, Nico Le Phat Tan, Ladj Ly ... see more see more... , Leïla Bekhti , François Levantal , Monica Bellucci , Julie-Marie Parmentier , Gérald Thomassin , Nicolas Le Phat Tan , Olivier Bartelemy , Quentin Lasbazeilles , Guillaume Bacquet

Four friends looking for a good time are lured into a strange and dangerous netherworld in this wildly offbeat horror film from France. It's Christmas Eve, and twentysomethings Bart (Olivier Barthelem... read more read more...y), Ladj (Ladj Ly), Thai (Nico Le Phat Tan), and Yasmine (Leila Bekhti) are bored and looking for fun. They end up at a rowdy dance club where, after Bart gets into a fight, they meet Eve (Roxane Mesquida), a sexy girl who seems to take a liking to the three guys. Eve invites the foursome to come back to her place in the country; the guys are more than game, and Yasmine tags along for the ride. Eve's house is a ramshackle mansion overflowing with broken plastic dolls and looked after by Joseph (Vincent Cassel), a cheerful but subnormal handyman whose pregnant wife spends most of her time upstairs. Before long, some of Eve's friends from town come by, and while the women are sexually accommodating, Yasmine soon gets the feeling something is wrong, and in time the guys reach the same conclusion. Joseph's topics of conversation become downright creepy as he talks in great detail about incest and Satanism with his guests, and Christmas Day devolves into an orgy of violence and perversity. Sheitan received its North American premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Kim Chapiron

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DVD Release Date: December 26, 2006

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  • mrgd291190
    October 12, 2010
    mrgd291190
    Poor, saved only by Cassel's general brilliance. The plot was unmoving, the quality was generally low.
  • 76Majikat
    October 14, 2009
    76Majikat
    A better type of teen horror, but for me failed toward the end. It was very predictable, but the progression of the story was enjoyable.

    Vincent Cassel plays a character quite unlike any you've seen him play before, he plays it well, but isn't really a film that is up to his ... read morelevel of acting.
  • 366weirdmovies
    July 31, 2008
    366weirdmovies
    Obnoxious amoral twentysomethings party at a creepy French provincial estate where the caretaker has a permanent unsettling grin, and nothing is as it seems. Ambitious attempt at a ROSEMARY?S BABY type atmosphere, but the young protagonists are intolerable and live to annoy the ... read moreaudience for far too long, and the multiple false endings were a bad idea.
  • DrBenway
    May 8, 2008
    DrBenway
    It's a shame a well played character by Vincent Cassel wasn't enough to save this tripe
  • MidnightMadwoman
    September 9, 2007
    MidnightMadwoman
    I don't even know what to say. This is not so much a movie as it is Insanity: Caught On Film. To this day I still have no bloody idea what it was about. Apart from wacky, incestuous French satanists and a few kids caught in thier midst. Chapiron has mentioned that this film was i... read morenspired by acid and you know what? It really shows.
  • pier007
    August 27, 2007
    pier007
    Trashy and blatant french horror film. Vincent Cassel's role as the ugly caretaker is the only good thing about this erratic and predictable freak show.
  • vierasesine
    June 26, 2007
    vierasesine
    Horror COMEDY? I certainly wasn't amused. No, rather utterly disturbed and disgusted. Not only by Joseph and his gang, but by the three moronic guys (esp. Bart) as well.

    I don't know how I should grade this film. On one hand, it did exactly what it was meant to do - creeped the... read more hell out of me - but on the other, I cannot say I exactly enjoyed watching it (nor do I ever want to see it again). In a sense this film is kind of like a horrible car crash. You're obviously bothered by what you see, yet you can't seem to look away.
  • guttersnipe28
    April 19, 2007
    guttersnipe28
    Now, this is off-kilter. Satan is a pseudo-horror flick about a group of teens/twenty-somethings who decide upon a trip to the French countryside following a bar brawl. Why this is, is largely unexplained.
    In amongst the attempts to get laid, the find themselves harried by a cra... read morezed farmer. Enter Vincent Cassel, whose off-the-leash performance fuels most of the film'[s comedy, sporting wellies, bushy facial hair and a ridiculously insane shit-eating grin. Oh, and some classic casual racism.
    Though on the surface the picture does seem to bear a lot of resemblances to typical Yank backwoods horrors, it does benefit from a mixture of restraint from gore (nearly all of 'the horror' is actually circumstancial countryside misgivings, such as a bed full of locusts), and bad taste (dog wanking, graphic water breaking).
    Essentially the picture does not hold up to scrutiny, it's rather a nutso horror piece to enjoy with mates, hence the fairly random Jacob's Ladder-style ending. Kudos to Olivier Bartélémy as a stupid, horny chav feeling like a third (or fifth) wheel for most of the picture, and to Roxane Mesquida (A Ma Souer!) and Leïla Bekhti for generally being gorgeous. On the topic, look out for a small role from Monica Bellucci, 'star' of a kinky gothic horror playing on a service station's TV.
  • deano
    October 15, 2006
    deano
    Very freak, silly horror and weird French movie.
  • monkeybobbob
    January 30, 2010
    monkeybobbob
    Insane french film about about a group of friends whose night turns to shit when a beautiful young woman invites them to her family home for Christmas. The blokes think they're going to have a "good time" with the girls and all will be fun. But when grinning caretaker Joseph turn... read mores up thing get unpredictable and a bit mental. This crazy but compelling combination of drama/thriller, black comedy and horror should be seen to be believed. Even just for Vincent Cassell's unhinged but brilliant performance!

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Critic Reviews

Jeffrey M. Anderson
March 16, 2007
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

Manages a playful sensibility, reveling in its repugnance and enjoying the heck out of its twisted ending. Full Review

Philip French
February 26, 2007
Philip French, Observer [UK]

At the end, you feel they should have thrown out Rosemary's baby with the bath water. Full Review

Nicholas Barber
February 26, 2007
Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday

An eyecatching calling card for its first-time director. Full Review

Edward Porter
February 26, 2007
Edward Porter, Sunday Times (UK)

If only Cassel had saved his performance for a collaboration with the League of Gentlemen. Full Review

Nick Curtis
February 23, 2007
Nick Curtis, This is London

Despite the air of brutish aggression and sexual predatoriness, little happens until gory retribution finally rears its head. Full Review

Stuart McGurk
February 23, 2007
Stuart McGurk, thelondonpaper

Totally bonkers - but all the more gripping for it. Full Review

Anthony Quinn
February 23, 2007
Anthony Quinn, Independent

The film, shot in a demented, headlong style, seems to have no idea of its direction other than the shelf marked "cult". Full Review

Tim Robey
February 23, 2007
Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

As a grotesque parody of the hillbilly-terror genre, it has a real wit and energy. Full Review

Peter Bradshaw
February 23, 2007
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

A contrived and very self-conscious genre piece of hardcore black-comedy horror in a 1970s vein. Full Review

Saxon Bullock
February 23, 2007
Saxon Bullock, Film4

Has plenty of atmosphere but can't make up for unpleasant characters and a meandering story. Full Review

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