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Olivier Beguin’s vampire thriller Chimères (review) is heading to VOD next week courtesy of The Orchard and Styd. Look to sink your teeth into this one on August 19th via iTunes, Amazon, and the like.

Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, and Catriona MacColl star.

Synopsis

While on holidays in Romania with his girlfriend, Livia, Alexandre is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital, where he has to undergo a blood transfusion.

Upon his return home he seems to suffer from a strange disease, convinced that contaminated blood runs through his veins. After all, isn’t Romania the land of legendary bloodsuckers? Livia faces Alexandre’s increasingly strange behavior and tries to save their relationship at risk.

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Swiss director Olivier Beguin made quite a splash on the international festival circuit with his debut feature, Chimeres. An arty take on the vampire mythos that picked up awards around the globe the film is now headed to the international sales market in Cannes with a new international trailer in hand.Hospitalized after being hit by a car while on holiday in Romania with his girlfriend Livia, Alexander must undergo a blood transfusion. On his return, he seems afflicted with a strange disease.Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, and Catriona MacColl star. Check out the trailer below....

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Swiss director Olivier Beguin made quite the bloody splash last year with his debut feature Chimeres which played all of the major international genre festivals and even won awards at a few of them.

Yannick Rosset and Jasna Kohoutova star as Alexander and Livia respectively, two travelers on vacation in Romania. Alex is hit by a car and hospitalized where, as part of treatment, he is given a blood transfusion. All seems well until he returns home and begins to suffer from a strange disease that makes him sensitive to light, his teeth grow and gives Alex some creepy blood soaked hallucinations. It's not hard to figure out almost from the get go that he's turning into a vampire.

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Olivier Beguin's French language film Chimères is going to Cannes. This vampire tale blends horror with romance as one man turns into a horrifying creature. Chimères stars Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset and Catriona MacColl. And now, an international trailer is available for the film! The film begins with Livia (Kohoutova) and Alexandre (Rosset). On holiday in Romania (bad vacation choice), this pair are involved in brutal car accident. Alexandre gets a blood transfusion, but this sangre might be contaminated. Now, Alexandre is turning into a creature, which is afraid of the sun and lusting for blood. Chimères has already toured several film festivals. And, the film has won several awards, including: Special Jury Award - Fantasporto, Special Mention - Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival and Best Director - Horrorant Fright Nights. In Cannes, the film is sure to find a distributor, with a release date coming soon. For now,...

The Swiss horror film Chimres brings new take on the classic vampire tale. In this film Alex gets infected after a car accident in Romania and is transfused with contaminated blood. We reviewed the film when it premiered at the Nifff festival in Neuchatel. Directed and written by by Olivier Beguin and stars Jasna Kohoutova Yannick Rosset and Catriona MacColl.

On tap right now are two one-sheets for Olivier Beguin’s vampire thriller Chimères (review), and they promise some truly fun and bloody hemoglobin-swilling spurts of horror. Sink yer teeth into 'em!

Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, and Catriona MacColl star.

Synopsis

While on holiday in Romania with his girlfriend Livia, Alexandre is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital, where he has to undergo a blood transfusion. Upon his return home, he seems to suffer from a strange disease, convinced that contaminated blood runs through his veins. After all, isn’t Romania the land of legendary bloodsuckers? Livia faces Alexandre’s increasingly strange behavior and tries to save their couple at risk.

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Dario Argento once said, "Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back." Abertoir, Wales’ International Horror Festival that wrapped this past Sunday, November 10th, has been celebrating horror’s malleability and resilience for eight years.

This year you could find Argento’s operatic giallo style reinvented by French filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani in The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears; vampires got a makeover in Kiss of the Damned and Chimeres; ghosts found new life in Ghost Graduation, Forgotten, and Soulmate; found footage was resurrected as Catholic horror in Borderlands; and creature features took a strange turn with The Station and Bad Milo.

Festival director Gaz Bailey had to watch a lot of awful films to find the best the genre had to offer. And he looks for one thing above all else when selecting a film: originality.

With first-time feature filmmaker Olivier Beguin’s vampire thriller Chimères set for its Us premiere Wednesday, October 16, at 9:45pm at Screamfest La, read on for our exclusive chat with the filmmaker, and then have a look at the trailer and some stills!

Produced by Beguin, Gwenn Deschenaux and Lluís Fe Pérez from a script by Beguin and Colin Vettier, Chimères stars Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset and Catriona MacColl and revolves around the character of Alexandre, who, while taking a holiday in Romania with his girlfriend, Livia, is hit by a car. Following his subsequent hospitalization (and blood transfusion), he finds on his return home that he’s begun to suffer from a strange disease.

A self-professed fan of horror and genre films, Swiss filmmaker Beguin directed several successful short films (the horror western Dead Bones, among them), before tackling Chimères, of which he stated, “I had actually planned to...