


When the police arrive and with the would-be intruder out of sight, Sarah can get back to her labour preparations.Īs part of the youthful New Wave of French horror, À l’intérieur, is an extreme, gory and twisted film, shot on a typically low budget. When a strange woman in black (Dalle) arrives at the door, insisting she enters the house to use the telephone, the shocked Sarah rejects her advances and calls the police. We travel months later to Christmas Eve and the still-grieving Sarah is putting the final steps in place for the birth of her child the following day. The movie opens, in devastating, if not spectacular fashion, with a fatal car crash injuring the pregnant Sarah (Paradis) and killing her husband.

Released in 2007 and directed by Alexandre Bastillo and Julien Maury, the film stars Alysson Paradis and Beatrice Dalle. The French have a reputation for generating some of the best movies in the horror genre. With nail-biting tension and an unpredictably startling conclusion, this is a gripping, low-budget horror, that will leave you questioning the security of your own home. With the couple being terrorized by a totally unknown source and without reason, they have no choice but to run and hide from this unseen attacker.Īn impressively scary thriller, Ils excels in its intensity and execution of suspense. Upon his return to the house, he is conscious that an intruder has also entered the building and it’s not long until violence breaks out. When Lucas discovers that his car has been moved he goes to investigate but as he approaches, the car lights turn off and the vehicle is driven off by an unknown assailant. Late one night Clementine is woken up by unfamiliar loud noises from outside the property. Lucas (Cohen) and Clementine (Bonamy) are a young couple in love, living in a large, isolated house surrounded by forest. The film dauntingly opens with the assurance that it has been ‘based on real events’. Ils (Them) is a French-Romanian horror from 2006, directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud with Olivia Bonamy and Michael Cohen playing the lead roles.
