Malefique (2002)

Malefique (2002)
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Four prisoners sharing the same cramped cell make a discovery that could help them escape from even the most high security prison if it doesn't split their world wide open first. Carrere is an ambitious company director serving time for fraud, Marcus is a thirty-five year old transsexual on course to becoming a real woman, Daisy is a mentally deficient servant, and Lassalle is a sixty year old intellectual who murdered his wife of many years. Together, these lawless misfits do their best to serve their time without losing their minds. One day, after discovering a loose stone slab in their cell, the four incarcerated convicts unearth the diary of a former prisoner named Danvers who occupied the exact same cell at the turn of the century. According to the diary, there exist magic formulas so powerful than any prisoner could use them to escape. Later, when the men attempt to decipher the formulas, the entire prison becomes a terrifying cauldron of bizarre phenomena. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Gérald LarochePhilippe Laudenbach, (more)
Director(s):
Eric Valette
Format(s):
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Synopsis of Malefique

Four prisoners sharing the same cramped cell make a discovery that could help them escape from even the most high security prison if it doesn't split their world wide open first. Carrere is an ambitious company director serving time for fraud, Marcus is a thirty-five year old transsexual on course to becoming a real woman, Daisy is a mentally deficient servant, and Lassalle is a sixty year old intellectual who murdered his wife of many years. Together, these lawless misfits do their best to serve their time without losing their minds. One day, after discovering a loose stone slab in their cell, the four incarcerated convicts unearth the diary of a former prisoner named Danvers who occupied the exact same cell at the turn of the century. According to the diary, there exist magic formulas so powerful than any prisoner could use them to escape. Later, when the men attempt to decipher the formulas, the entire prison becomes a terrifying cauldron of bizarre phenomena. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
90 mins

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Director(s):
Eric Valette
Writer(s):
Alexandre ChalotFranck Magnier
Producer(s):
Olivier DelboscMarc Missonnier
Categories:
Horror
Malefique Awards:
  • 2003 - FanTasia International Film Festival - Peoples' Choice: Best International Film (Bronze)
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David S.

Malefique is sometimes lumped along with Martyrs, Inside, High Tension, and Them as riding the wave of recent French horror, but Malefique views more like a seedy sub-par Night Gallery or Tales From the Darkside (something below Twilight Zone standard) episode and never reaches the quality of the other French films I mentioned. The acting is fine, better than most low budget American horror, but the eftects are weak and the scares just not there. The ending really drives home the made-for-TV caliber "shock" finish. There are a couple of creepy moments, but only enough for me to recommend Malefique to French Horror completists.

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