Asmodeus

Asmodeus

7.5IMDb Score
Released:2021-10-06
Duration:15 min
Country:Canada
Director:Éric Falardeau
Actors:Éric Falardeau, Annaëlle Winand, Alouqa Bélanger, Juliette Pottier Plaziat
Production:

Overview:

A man undergoes a ritual in which he is possessed by three lustful, witchy women of decidedly supernatural pedigree. After his acclaimed Thanatomorphose, genre filmmaker Éric Falardeau is both behind and before the camera in this sensory extravaganza, somewhere between an occult hallucination and a self-portrait of conflicted masculinity, that serves up a heady mix of horror, poetry and unbridled eroticism. A tribute to the magic of Méliès, the early American avant-garde and underground film (think: Kenneth Anger), Asmodeus renders bodies and fluids transcendent through its use of textured black-and-white Super 8 and in-camera special effects. A cinematic memento mori that’s at once carnal and otherworldly.

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