The Vourdalak (2023)

Original title

Le Vourdalak

Directed by

Adrien Beau

Genre

drama film, horror film, speculative fiction film, folk horror film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

15

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French diplomat travels to a remote village and stays with a strange family. He soon discovers that their missing patriarch may have returned as a vourdalak, a kind of vampire. The film follows his growing unease as the family's dark secrets unfold.

uncannyatmosphericslow-burngothiceeriefolksymelancholicvisually stark

What happens

The Vourdalak (French: Le Vourdalak) is a 2023 French drama-horror film directed by Adrien Beau, in his feature film debut, co-written by Beau and Hadrien Bouvier, based on Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1839 novella The Family of the Vourdalak. Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, and Vassili Schneider. The film had its world premiere in the Critics Week section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2023. It was theatrically released in France on 25 October by The Jokers, to critical acclaim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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