MadS
Directed by David Moreau
Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.
Is this a bad trip, or something else? An all-night descent into terror unlike anything you've seen.
Cast: Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, Lucille Guillaume
Member Reviews
this was AWESOME!
a masterful love letter to a fairly tired subgenre of horror
an incredibly hamfisted movie likening party drugs (and the effect they have on people, their relationships and communities more broadly) to a lab leak of a zombie virus. too focused on empty spectacle to actually do anything interesting with this metaphor, and made incredibly tedious by its insistence on being a one-shot film. the strength of modern zombie films has been their exploration of character/morality in an apocalyptic situation, but this movie is entirely focused on shallowly characterised teenagers hurting each other and themselves. like a segment from one of the VHS films made into a feature length movie (derogatory).
Insanely boring. Don’t waste your time
Eh. I don't know. Being filmed in a single continuous shot gives it a lot of propulsive momentum that doesn't let up. But ultimately this seems a bit gimmicky, masking a fairly thin and unoriginal plot. It is fun to watch and holds your attention. But it doesn't do much more than that.