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Unlike new extreme films, new French horror emphasises gory violence, torture, and monstrous others. There is often an individual or a group who constitutes the violent monster against which the protagonists must struggle, with death and injury following the main characters until the end of the film when they either escape or are defeated by ...
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Gaspar Noé (Spanish: [gasˈpaɾ noˈe]; French: [ɡaspaʁ nɔ.e]; born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine filmmaker, who lives and worked primarily in France. [1] He is one of the primary exponents of New French Extremity, with his most notable works including the feature films I Stand Alone (1998), Irréversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009), Love (2015), Climax (2018), Lux Æterna (2019 ...
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Although Quandt coined the term New French Extremity, he quickly acknowledged this was a mistake, and most writing since (e.g. by Horeck & Kendall, Mattias Frey, Asbjørn Grønstad, and others see it as existing far beyond France (think of The Idiots, A Hole in my Heart, A Serbian Film, Taxidermia, etc.)
In the 2000s, a movement of transgressive films in France known as "New French Extremity" has been described as an arthouse horror film movement. [ 6 ] Although commentators have suggested some horror films have exemplified qualities applicable to "art horror" for many decades, the term became more widely used during the 2010s, with independent ...
High Tension (French: Haute tension, French pronunciation: [ot tɑ̃sjɔ̃]; also known as Switchblade Romance in some international countries) is a 2003 French slasher film [4] directed by Alexandre Aja, co-written with Grégory Levasseur, and starring Cécile de France and Maïwenn. The plot focuses on two female students who drive to one of ...
Raw (French: Grave) is a 2016 coming-of-age body horror drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau, and starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, and Rabah Nait Oufella.