Horsehead (2014)

Review: Horsehead (2014)

Director: Romain Basset

Cast: Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Shane Woodward, Gala Besson,

Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux
Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux
Catriona MacColl
Catriona MacColl
Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Shane Woodward
Shane Woodward
Gala Besson
Gala Besson

Plot: Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...

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Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Artsploitation Films and the boundaries of horror

Artsploitation Films is a distributor with a taste for offbeat horror as represented in two recent Blu-ray releases, the German Der Samurai and the French (though shot in English) Horsehead, both visually stylized and more interested in metaphor […]

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