A young couple, Ines and Fred, have just moved into an apartment with a long corridor. After a few days, Ines hears strange noises and thinks she sees something. Trying to find out more, she gets scratched, but she doesn't know by whom or by what. Fred sees nothing and hears nothing. A tension arises between the two young people who do not understand each other. Is Ines going crazy or is it Fred who refuses to face reality?
Direction
Setbon stretches 77 minutes of corridor into endless dread.
Sound
The scratching. You'll never unhear it.
Director
Philippe Setbon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on digital video in 2002, it predates the 'found footage' boom but shares its raw, you-are-there intimacy. The entire apartment was a real location in Paris.
Part of a wave of early 2000s French horror ('New French Extremity's quieter cousin) that weaponized domestic spaces. It's basically a relationship drama that horror happened to.
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