The body of a murdered young woman is found with three-century-old dead skin under her fingernails. The investigation begins with a visit to the coroner and the interrogation of the main suspect. And then the "creatures" arrive, armed to the teeth...
Direction
Leclercq's baffling pivot from police procedural to creature feature.
Practical Effects
Creatures that look expensive despite the shoestring budget.
Director
Julien Leclercq
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leclercq made this for pocket change before his bigger-budget 'The Assault,' proving he could stretch a franc into spectacle.
Part of a forgotten wave of early-2000s French genre films that treated sci-fi with grimy seriousness while Hollywood went glossy.
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