Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.
Direction
Mocky's controlled chaos turns a town fair into purgatory.
Production
Carnival sets that feel genuinely cursed, not costume-shop cheap.
Director
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mocky cast himself as Jock and his own daughter Marysa as Estelle, making this an unnerving family affair.
Released in 1982, Litan anticipated the folk horror revival by decades—predating Midsommar's daylight dread with its own sunlit nightmare.
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