Tagline: What are your boundaries?
Set during the recent riots in Paris’ outlying suburbs. Features neo-Nazis, stolen loot and a twisted Gothic household.
Samuel Le Bihan (Brotherhood of the Wolf) stars in this horror film set in France and revolves around Yasmine, her ex-boyfriend and his two friends who are entrenched in the Paris riots, and have stolen a large sum of money before they head for the Danish border. On their way, they check into a motel where things appear to be too good to be true. They find that looks are deceiving as this motel rapidly turns into a house of horrors run by a Neo-Nazi family.
About the Story
An extremist right-wing candidate is elected to the French presidency, sparking riots in Paris. Hoping to escape Paris but needing cash, Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami take advantage of the chaos to pull off a robbery. Sami is shot and the group splits up: Alex and Yasmine take Sami to a hospital, and Tom and Farid take the money to a family-run inn near the border. Innkeepers Gilberte and Klaudia claim their rooms are free and seduce the two men.
At the hospital, the emergency room staff report Sami’s injury to the police. Sami insists Yasmine run before the police catch her. His dying wish is that Yasmine not have an abortion. Alex and Yasmine flee, phoning their friends for directions to the inn. Tom and Farid give them directions but soon after are brutally attacked by Gilberte, Klaudia, and Goetz. When Tom and Farid try to escape, Goetz runs their car off a cliff. The injured men wander into a mine shaft, where Tom is quickly recaptured. Farid must fend for himself in the mine with the family’s rejected children. Unaware of the danger, Alex and Yasmine arrive at the inn and are captured by the family.
Alex and Yasmine are chained in a muddy floored pig pen. Alex breaks Yasmine’s chains and allows her to escape. When the captors discover Yasmine’s escape, the father of the family, von Geisler, cut Alex’s achilles tendons. Meanwhile in the mine, Farid finds the storage area for the victims. The family realizes something is amiss in the mine, and Hans chases Farid into a boiler where Farid is cooked alive. Yasmine flees from the inn but is quickly picked back up by Goetz.
Back in the pig pen, von Geisler personally grants Alex’s last wish, which is to be put down quickly. Initially, von Geisler wishes for Karl to “wed” Yasmine to carry on the family lineage, but when von Geisler learns she is already pregnant, he entrusts her to the meek Eva. Eva tells Yasmine that she came to the family in a very similar manner and that she is obedient because the family promised her that her parents would return for her some day. Eva also tells Yasmine of the rejected children she and Hans care for in the mine.
Eventually, Eva leads Yasmine down to dinner, where the family awaits her. Von Geisler is revealed to be a former (and still practicing) Nazi. Von Geisler offers up a toast to the new blood and Yasmine quickly grabs a large knife and takes von Geisler hostage. Hans grabs a shotgun and shoots and kills von Geisler in the confusion; Karl shoots Hans dead in turn. Yasmine escapes and is chased by Karl and Goetz into the mine. Yasmine eventually makes her way into one of the body storage rooms where she fights with Goetz.
After a bloody struggle, she repeatedly hits him with an axe before impaling him on a rotating table saw. Karl catches Yasmine as she tries to return to the surface, but Eva comes to the rescue, blowing off Karl’s head. Yasmine searches for car keys, but is ambushed by Gilberte and Klaudia. During the shootout, Yasmine hits a gas tank, blowing up the room. Gilberte survives the explosion and attempts to kill Yasmine only to have her throat torn out by her. With everyone else dead, Yasmine tries to persuade Eva to leave with her, but Eva stays to take care of the children in the mine. On the road, Yasmine runs into a police blockade where she surrenders to the authorities.
Production notes provided by After Dark Films. Cartel Productions
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Starring: Karina Testa, Samuel Le Bihan, Estelle LeFebure, Aurelian Wilk, David Saracino, Chems Dahmani, Maud Forget, Amelie Daure, Rosine Favey, Adel Bencherif, Joel Le Francois
Directed by: Xavier Gens
Screenplay by: Xavier Gens
Release Date: May 9th, 2008
MPAA Rating: NC-17 for extreme sadistic graphic violence and gore.
Studio: After Dark Films