- Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
- Writers: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
- Stars: Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone
- Runtime: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes
- Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2YEzeBo
Synopsis
We zoom in on Lucy, a young woman whose eyes are two different colors, waiting at a bus stop. The bus stop is plastered with “missing persons” posters. Mrs. Wilson comes and picks her up. Lucy is told that having two different colored eyes means she has two different souls, but she’s doubtful.
Lucy and Mrs. Wilson are in-home nurses, and they stop to give a sad old man a shot. Then they stop to change an old woman’s diaper. On the third stop, Mrs. Wilson makes Lucy wait in the car. “You aren’t ready for this patient,” Mrs. Wilson says.
Lucy doesn’t wait and wanders through the yard up to the huge old house. We see that there are a huge iron gate and metal shutters over the windows. She goes in the house, and it’s a huge old place that has seen much better days. Inside, Lucy finds an old woman, Mrs. Jessel, who is hooked up to an oxygen mask. She used to be a famous dance instructor. The old woman gets a regular transfusion of new blood. She’s very rich, and everyone says there is a treasure somewhere. Then Lucy’s first day is over.
There’s a strange scene where Mrs. Wilson is following a young girl on a bicycle too closely…
Lucy meets up with her boyfriend, William, who asks all about her day. She tells him about the big old house and the story about the treasure. William immediately wants to break in and look for the treasure. He just got out of jail, but Lucy’s father is having financial trouble, so he asks her to at least consider it.
We shift to Mrs. Wilson, who is draining the blood of a dead girl in her bathtub. This is where the blood transfusions come from.
Lucy’s father is dating again, and Lucy thinks of her mother, who hung herself in the bathroom eight months ago. Lucy calls William, and says “OK, let’s do it.” Lucy, William, and their friend Ben go that night, which just happens to be Halloween. Lucy sees a blue flame coming out of the ground, and she touches it with her hand.
They climb the fence but can’t get the front door open. They finally find a basement window without bars on it, and they all go inside and start searching for a safe. They don’t find anything on the first floor, so they head upstairs. There’s a locked door, but Lucy remembers seeing a key around Mrs. Jessel’s neck. They go up to the third floor. Lucy takes the key and they head back downstairs. The key doesn’t work, so they force the door. Inside, they find the mummified corpse of Mrs. Jessel’s daughter.
They find a keyhole, insert the key, and the dead girl starts rotating, like on a music box. William freaks out and punches the dead girl, and then they hear loud footsteps upstairs. They’ve woken something up. They run back the way they came in, but the entrance now has bars on the window. Lucy explains that Mrs. Jessel’s bedroom doesn’t have any bars. They run back upstairs, and there’s only a puddle of blood where Mrs. Jessel used to lay.
Ben is separated from the others and finds himself trapped inside some weird kind of laboratory with dead things in bottles. Three dead ballerinas come out of nowhere and kill him.
While William tries to break out, Lucy meets Mrs. Jessel, who gives her a flashback. Jessel’s daughter, Anna, killed and partially ate one of the other dance students. She runs outside and collapses, and an invisible force picks her up and carries her back inside. She seems to lose all power in the daytime.
William finds Ben wearing a hood, and he won’t answer William. When William pulls Ben’s mask off, he sees that Ben isn’t exactly alive. They fight, and William manages to beat Ben. Then Mrs. Jessel enters the room and she finishes the job on William.
Lucy winds up back in the room with the dead ballerina girl, who now has a bloody nose. Another flashback. Mrs. Jessel forces Anna to dance until she literally breaks her in half. The girl comes to life and attacks her, and they fight. Lucy wins, but then Mrs. Wilson comes in and sucker-punches Lucy.
Lucy wakes up in the laboratory. She was one of Jessel’s students, and she helped “assemble” the new and improved Anna with flesh and clockworks. Jessel and Wilson tie her down to the table and implant some kind of worm in Lucy’s and Anna’s neck. Both worms turn into moths and fly away. Jessel now calls Lucy “Anna” and commands her to dance.
Anna now inhabits Lucy’s body. Lucy-Anna stabs Wilson with scissors and then does the same with Jessel. Lucy the cuts herself and pours blood into Anna’s mouth. The two of them then inspect the carnage. Of course, Jessel gets up and attacks them again, but the two team up to throw her off the balcony and then literally tear her apart. They both go outside and find that blue flame again.
The next morning, the two of them walk to the ocean-side cliffs, and Anna jumps off. Rather than fall to her death, she floats away on the wind.
Commentary
The trailer alone reminded me of the film “Don’t Breathe” (2016) where a group of young people go and attempt to rob a blind man, who has secrets of his own. We thought that films original when we saw it, but a lot of that plot came straight from this film. This one has supernatural underpinnings, but otherwise, the main plot points are very nearly identical for the first two-thirds of the film.
Not much is explained here. It all looks good and has a high creep factor. I’m a little confused as to what happened and why, but at least it was all entertaining.