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In the early morning hours on the outskirts of Paris, Le Roi Soleil serves as a way station for lives in transit. It’s a modest bar where the last dregs of the night mix with the first light of dawn. The air is thick with fatigue and stale beer until a sudden jolt of electricity cuts through the gloom.

Monsieur Kantz, a quiet regular, checks his lottery numbers and discovers a truth that is impossible to whisper: he has just won €294 million. For a fleeting moment, a new reality seems possible. Then, a gun appears. A shot rings out.

The dream vanishes, replaced by a body on the floor and a small paper ticket that now represents an immense, unclaimed fortune. The few remaining patrons, a collection of strangers, are left with a corpse and a choice.

Their decision to forgo a call to the authorities in favor of...

Exclusive: French director Vincent Maël Cardona makes his Cannes Official Selection debut with huis-clos thriller No One Will Know, which premieres as a Midnight Screening.

The drama revolves around the clients and staff of the fictitious Le Roi Soleil café in the Paris periphery who unwittingly assist in the killing of an elderly regular just after he discovers he has won €294 million ($320M) in the lottery.

With the life-changing sum in their sights if not their grasp, the disparate group battle with their consciences and one another as they figure out a way to explain the death, as well as whether and how to take possession of the prize.

“They have to agree on a scenario, a fiction and a way of recounting what happened, which is not what happened, in a convincing manner, that stands up to scrutiny,” says Cardona. “They’re doing the work of a screenwriter.”

“But...

Exclusive: Studiocanal has revealed a first image for Vincent Maël Cardona’s tense behind-closed-doors thriller No One Will Know as it launches sales on the title at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris this week.

The huis close follows the clients and bar staff of a shabby cafe outside Paris in the early hours of the morning, who enter into a deadly pact when an elderly regular comes in and wins €294 million in the lottery.

Cardona has gathered a high-profile ensemble cast featuring Pio Marmaï (The Three Musketeers duology and The Ties That Bind Us), Sofiane Zermani (Hunting With Tigers), Panayotis Pascot (Loup Garous), Lucie Zhang and Joseph Olivennes (Magnetic Beats).

They are joined by Pulp Fiction star Maria de Meideros as the bar’s tough-talking, streetwise, eccentric landlady who stumbles in on the dangerous plan, which ultimately send all the participants on a bloody downward spiral.

The...

Studiocanal has boarded Cedric Klapisch’s time-jumping family drama Colours Of Time (La Venue De l’Avenir) about cousins who inherit an old house in rural Normandy and retrace the steps of their ancestors in 19th-centuryParis.

The supercharged cast of local stars is headed by Suzanne Lindon, Vincent Macaigne, Zinedine Soualem, Paul Kircher, Vassili Schneider, Sara Giraudeau, Cécile de France, Olivier Gourmet and Abraham Wapler.

Klapisch has written the script with Santiago Amigorena and produces with Bruno Levy via their Ce Qui Me Meut banner.

Studiocanal will unveil the film to buyers at the Paris Rendez-Vous later this month.

The...

[This story contains spoilers from the first season of The New Look.]

The first season of Apple TV+’s The New Look ends with Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) debuting his revolutionary 1947 collection that would be dubbed “the new look” by Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow (Glenn Close). The show then quickly flashes forward through some of the Dior brand’s iconic looks over the decades, which seems to suggest that the series is done with Dior’s story.

But creator Todd A. Kessler tells The Hollywood Reporter that he has a long runway planned for the series, which has yet to be officially renewed for a second season. A potential season two would continue to focus on Dior and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) before subsequent seasons would stay with the Dior brand as it was inherited by Yves Saint Laurent.

“I read that in the press, and that was the first time that I had ever heard of it as an anthology series,...

The New Look is a historical drama on Apple TV+ that explores the lives of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel during World War II. Maisie Williams delivers a powerful performance as Christian Dior's sister Catherine, whose concentration camp experience is highlighted in the series. The series dives into the competitive relationship between Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, showcasing how they navigate the fashion industry amidst Nazi connections and professional challenges.

Apple TV+’s latest historical drama, The New Look, delves into World War II through a fashionable lens. Created by Todd A. Kessler (who notably worked on The Sopranoes), the 10-episode season follows Christian Dior's journey to opening his own house of high couture. Though it is named after his first fashion collection from 1947, he is not the only designer at the center of the proceedings, as the show invests heavily in Coco Chanel's (played by Juliette Binoche) Nazi connections and professional upheavals.

Magnetic Beats director Vincent Maël Cardona with Ed Bahlman (Joy Division - An Ideal For Living EP) and Anne-Katrin Titze: “When I hear the voice of Ian Curtis, still now, I hear the No Future thing.”

Vincent Maël Cardona’s Cannes Film Festival and César Award-winning Magnetic Beats, stars Thimothée Robart (Most Promising Actor Lumière Award-winner) with a first-rate supporting ensemble, including Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes, Antoine Pelletier, Philippe Frécon, Brian Powell, Olga Créancier-Werckmeister, Mathilde Bisson, and the director himself.

Philippe Bichon (Thimothée Robart), sound engineer for Radio Warsaw

Remembering Ian Curtis (with Joy Division’s Decades and Warsaw); David Bowie and Brian Eno’s Warszawa; Jon King in Gang of Four (Damaged Goods) and Camera Silens (Réalité); The Undertones (Teenage Kicks), Robert Görl (Dit Mir), a nod to John Peel and Bob Marley; noting The Pop Group and The Slits; Edith Nylon (seen in Philippe Puicouyoul’s La Brune Et Moi), and more,...

The end of the Halloween Season is always a bit of a sad time for horror fans, but as we always like to remind you each and every year, it’s Halloween Every Day here on Bloody Disgusting.

And wouldn’t you know it, even though Halloween has come and gone there are still several new horror releases headed our way here in the first week of November. Seven of them!

Here’s all the new horror releasing November 1 – November 6, 2022!

First up, Bloody Disgusting has unleashed the brand new Screambox Original horror movie Deep Fear today, which will take you deep into the catacombs exclusively on Screambox.

A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear, a Belgian/French survival horror movie that’s also available on VOD outlets now.

“Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they...

Horror movies like Deep Fear take place underground, and they are often the most effective as far as compelling scares go. They evoke a fear that everyone can understand. Trap someone in a confined, dark space below ground, then have them be pursued by someone (or something) — it’s a simple but winning formula.

Screambox‘s latest release Deep Fear, as well as the nine other movies below, reinforce feelings of claustrophobia and remind you of what possible evils could be hiding below the surface. As Above, So Below, The Descent, C.H.U.D., Creep and The Midnight Meat Train are all familiar examples of this subgenre, but this list focuses on underseen movies set underground.

Deep Fear (2022)

Grégory Beghin‘s movie Deep Fear follows three friends and their guide (Joseph Olivennes) into the Paris Catacombs. Set in the early ’90s, the main characters have recently graduated from college,...

It’s The Descent meets As Above, So Below in the Belgian/French survival horror movie Deep Fear, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox alongside yesterday’s surprise release of Terrifier 2!

A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear, which is also available on all VOD platforms.

“Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker formerly occupied by the Nazis, little do they know it’s not the only thing that was left behind. Something, someone, is now hunting them.”

Deep Fear had its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest. The festival described it as “an atmospheric horror full of old-school jump scares and claustrophobic cinematography.”

Watch an exclusive clip here, which teases bloody, rat-infested horrors…

Grégory Beghin directs the claustrophobic terror from a script by Nicolas Tackian. Sofia Lesaffre,...

A trio of recently graduated students encounter subterranean horrors when they party in the Paris catacombs in Grégory Beghin's new movie Deep Fear, and ahead of its November 1st release on Screambox and on VOD platforms via Cinedigm, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers!

You can watch our claustrophobic exclusive clip below, and we have the official press release with additional details on Deep Fear:

Press Release: A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear. The Belgian/French horror film streams exclusively on Screambox on November 1. It will also be available on VOD platforms the same day via Cinedigm.

Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker formerly occupied by the Nazis, little do they know it’s not the only thing that was left behind.

The Descent meets As Above, So Below in the Belgian/French survival horror movie Deep Fear, streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox on November 1.

A post-graduation celebration turns into a fight for survival in the catacombs of Paris in Deep Fear. It will also be available on VOD platforms the same day via Cinedigm.

“Three students celebrate their graduation by visiting the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker formerly occupied by the Nazis, little do they know it’s not the only thing that was left behind. Something, someone, is now hunting them.”

Deep Fear had its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest last month. The festival described it as “an atmospheric horror full of old-school jump scares and claustrophobic cinematography.”

Watch an exclusive clip below, which teases bloody, rat-infested horrors…

Grégory Beghin directs the claustrophobic terror from a script by Nicolas Tackian. Sofia Lesaffre, Victor Meutelet, Joseph Olivennes,...

The beautiful and iconic city of Paris, France is well-known for art, fashion and culture, but beneath the city lies the not so pretty Paris catacombs, a network of tunnels that contain the remains of more than six million people. When basement walls collapsed around the Holy Innocents’ Cemetery, the residents of the cemetery were relocated to the underground catacombs sometime around 1786, and the tunnels were opened to the public in 1809. The 2014 horror film As Above, So Below actually obtained permission from the French authorities to film in the catacombs and tells the terrifying story of an archaeologist and her team who explore the tunnels with deadly results.

Set in Paris in the late eighties, the new Belgian film Deep Fear follows a group of students who decide to celebrate their graduation with a trip to the catacombs. Written by Nicolas Tackian and directed by Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution), Deep...

Exclusive: Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to Belgian/French horror pic Deep Fear. From director Grégory Beghin (Losers Revolution), the survival thriller will have its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest next month and then debut on Cinedigm’s Bloody Disgusting-powered genre streaming platform Screambox on October 11.

The film sees three students set out on the adventure of a lifetime as they decide to celebrate their recent graduation in Paris. Eager to do something more exciting than visit the local tourist spots, they opt to descend into the capital city’s cryptic catacombs. Safe within the underground, they find the escape they’ve been searching for, unaware that they are not alone in the darkness. When they discover a bunker created during the WWII Nazi occupation, they have no way of knowing the danger that lurks within. Something, someone, is hunting them — and the group needs to get...

Writer-director Jonas Carpignano has scored at Cannes with “A Chiara,” winning the Europa Cinemas Cannes Label nod for best European film at Directors’ Fortnight, the festival’s biggest independent parallel section. Carpignano took the same prize for his previous film, “A Ciambra,” which was exec produced by Martin Scorsese, in 2017.

In the second big Directors’ Fortnight prize announcement, Vincent Maël Cardona’s feature debut “Magnetic Beats (“Les Magnétiques”) won the section’s Sacd Prize, awarded by France’s Writers’ Guild. Cardona’s short, “Anywhere Out of the World,” featured at the 2010’s Cannes Cinefondation student short competition.

“A Chiara” focuses on a family’s 16-year-old daughter and her growing realization that her beloved father may be part of the local criminal organization. Set in what the Variety review describes as the “hardscrabble underside” of the Calabrian city of Gioia Tauro, “A Chiara” delivers “a complex and ultimately realistic picture,” it said.

The film is co-produced by companies behind Caméra d’Or winner Divines and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables.

Paris-based company Indie Sales has boarded Vincent Maël Cardona’s debut feature Magnetic Beats, which has been selected for this year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection.

Set in Brittany in the 1980s, the film follows a group of friends working in a free radio station. Jerome leads it with unique charisma while his younger brother Philippe, the technical genius, lives in the shadow.

When Philippe is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin, he has no choice but to leave.