I'm of two minds about this movie. No, three.One: I don't like claustrophobic horror movies where things just get worse and worse. 3/10 for taste.Two: This was a well-crafted movie that, refreshingly, relied on characterization rather than special effects. The lack of music added to the feeling of claustrophobia. 8/10.Three: It was a delightful pastiche of many other movies, including Misery, Deliverance, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Un Soir, Un Train, etc. I'm sure reviewers more familiar with European movies than I could name quite a few more. 10/10 for erudition.Avg: 7/10.

Wait, wait,wait ... what is this film that I just saw ??????????????????????????? I can not say it is a horror, nor it is a comedy - though I guess there are elements of a dark comedy. This film is just surreal and out of the world.I would not say it is scary, but it is definitely uncomfortable at some moments. Perversion seems to lurk from every character in the film, but every single one of them! Though I am not sure about the main character of the film.French speaking movies are either total bore, or totally awesome or totally weird. This one is weird. A village full of mad, sexually perverted men! And mysterious femme fatale named Gloria if it was a woman at all!?It is bizarre film, can not say what I feel after watching it. And the end is puzzling. Did he escape? Or what was all that in the last minute? Or he is totally lost and will become mad like the others?My score for this??? I guess 7

Days before Christmas, entertainer Marc Stevens gets stuck at in a remote wood in the swampy region of Liège, after his van breaks down. A man who's looking for a lost dog leads takes to a desolate inn, and the owner gives Marc a room for the night. Next day, the innkeeper, promises to fix the van, asks that Marc not visit the nearby village, but goes through Marc's things whilst he takes a walk. That night, the innkeeper laments his wife's having left him, and by next day, Marc is in a nightmare that may not end......The kidnap victim thriller isn't a fresh idea, it's been done to death, taking someone and pretending that they are someone else, but this one is a little more darker, a little more moody, and the fact that the kidnapper may be the most normal person Marc runs into, adds to the bewilderment.The villagers are absolutely bonkers, or are we seeing these people through the eyes of the innkeeper? Or do they even exist, and are just part of the innkeepers imagination?But the fundamental aspect of the film is the torture that Marc endures, and the humility he goes through with the innkeeper, that makes the film as intense as it is.But it's also the strange set pieces in the film and the quieter moments that really get to the viewer, such as the resident who comes on to Marc, or the scene in the bar after the innkeeper says his peace.Its a difficult film to watch, but its worth watching, but it will leave you feeling a bit low..

But i'll do just to warning whoever is going to watch this piece of nonsense. I'll do because i believed the positive reviews and thanks to them I lost almost 88 minutes uselessly.Right on the start I started to have a bad feeling. When a director spent the first three minutes showing a singer singing a boring song, right there, i told to myself: "this movie is going to be a waste of time". And that it was.A story you completely do not care about. The plot could had be filmed in five minutes; a "guy", cause a van damage, ended up in a "crazy" community in a nowhere place; all the rest is a completely long and stupid manner to make from an absurd and poor idea a full movie. The acting, the movie, the sounds, all is tedious long and irritating. The boring scenes of crazy people singing are useless if not to lengthen the movie. I had to use the forward button many times to jump those parts. There is not horror to be afraid of, there is not suspense, there isn't thrilling, there was nothing at all but absurdity and craziness, and not in a interesting manner, in a completely absence of ideas. You can't see neither the effort to try to give to this movie a minimum of intriguing. You expect something to make some sense or interesting and you wait in vane. Also the final, in any way you look at it, doesn't make any sense connected to the whole movie. Despite i do like horror genre movie, surreal or not, this is not even a movie to me. Next time i'll be more careful to read the negative reviews.You have be warned.0/10