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"It's a total void." Signature Entertainment in the UK has revealed an official trailer with English subtitles for a French horror thriller film titled The Tower. This first premiered at the 2022 Deauville Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Sitges, Rome, and Fantasy Filmfests. From the description, it's a French version of Ben Wheatley's High-Rise thriller, about how the residents of a build going crazy when they have to figure out how to survive together. The inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the residents try to organize themselves, but to ensure their survival, they gradually succumb to their most primitive instincts, then sink into horror. The Tower stars Angéle Mac, Hatik, Kylian Larmonie, Merveille Nsombi,...

After celebrating premieres at the Rome Film Festival and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Bloody has your first look at French thriller Lockdown Tower (La Tour) directed by Guillaume Nicloux.

In the film…

“The inhabitants of a tower block wake up one morning to find a black veil shrouding all the windows and doors of the building – a black veil which devours anything and anyone who tries to go through it…

“Stuck inside together, families organize themselves but time passes and nothing changes. They gradually return to their most primitive instincts and now respond to a single watchword: survival.”

Lockdown Tower is a film without any moral or justification, without any faith or law, the film’s info includes. It is a film attesting the undisputable truth: man is his own worst nightmare.

Ahmed Abdel-Laoui and Angèle Mac star.

Thanks to Fabien for sending the images and art.

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La Tour d’Assitan (Lockdown Tower)

Upon getting a whiff of this project one can’t help but feel that Gareth Evans’ The Raid created a new subgenre — and the fact that Guillaume Nicloux is headed on the same path but with horror fantasy elements is even more intriguing. A whopping sixteen features into his filmography, the filmmaker teamed with producers Sylvie Pialat, Benoit Quainon and Bruno Nahon while reuniting with cinematographer Christophe Offenstein on La Tour d’Assitan (Lockdown Tower). Production began in April of 2021 in Paris with Angèle Mac, Clément Penhoat (aka Hatik), Ahmed Abdel Laoui and Kylian Larmonie.…...

Angèle Mac, Clément Penhoat, Ahmed Abdel Laoui and Kylian Larmonie star in the genre film. A production bringing together Les Films du Worso and Unité, sold by Elle Driver. Since 12 April, in the Paris region, Guillaume Nicloux has been filming La Tour d’Assitan, his 16th feature film after, among other titles, Thalasso (in competition at San Sebastian in 2019), To the Ends of the World (Directors’ Fortnight 2018), Valley of Love (in Cannes competition in 2015) and The Nun (in competition in Berlin in 2013). Starring in this film, at the border between fantasy and horror, are Angèle Mac (making her feature film debut), Clément Penhoat (better known under his rapping name Hatik and revealed on screen in the series Validé), Ahmed Abdel Laoui (seen in The Specials and Just Kids) and Kylian Larmonie. Written by the director, the script begins one morning, when the inhabitants of a housing...