AMONG THE LIVING (Aux yeux des vivants, 2014)

France. Direction: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo. Production: Fabrice Lambot, Jean-Pierre Putters, Caroline Piras / Metaluna Productions. Screenplay: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo. Photography: Antoine Sanier. Music: Raphaël Gesqua. Edition: Sébastien de Sainte Croix. Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Chloé Coulloud, Lannick Gautry, Francis Renaud, Isabelle Carré, Anne Marivin. Running time: 90 min

LANGUAGE: French / SUBTITLES: Spanish, English

By the cursed, reviled directors of the obscenely poetical Inside (2007) and Livid (2011). Julien and Alexandre, who ran off to Hollywood one day because they wanted to shoot a Halloween, bring us this unhealthy, sickly, constantly moving lump of god-awful trash premiered in France during celluloid & beer covens called for example La nuit du slasher. Their style is that of a macabre tale, a fantasy teenage adventure. Three boys skip school on the last day of term: they want to explore derelict film studios, never suspecting what we know right from the very beginning: Evil lurks in there. But there's no sign of it at first. There are people, heretics, who have written to the effect that Among the Living is like The Goonies (1985)… but it turns into… The Night of the Hunter (1955). Well, nearly.