First Teaser trailer for French horror film Behind the Walls (Derriere Les Murs)

Posted by Glennis Byron on April 23, 2011 in News tagged with Behind the Walls, Derrière les murs, Julian Lacombe, Pascal Sid

Julian Lacombe and Pascal Sid’s Behind the Walls (Derrière les murs), according to Twitch, is a horror film in the style of classic literature, ‘infused with the gothic overtones of Poe and similar writers’. Sounds promising. Here’s the synoposis:

Centre of France, 1922. Suzanne , a young novelist lacking inspiration decides to isolate herself in the countryside to write her new book. As Suzanne discovers a sealed-up room in the basement of her house, she starts writing oddly easily. Visions and nightmares soon strike her while the villagers grow worried as several little girls mysteriously disappear…

And the teaser trailer:

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Glennis Byron has written 267 articles on The Gothic Imagination.

My main research interests are in nineteenth-century and contemporary Gothic. My next project, tentatively entitled Blood Money: Marketing the Gothic, will examine the ways in which the international publishing industries manufacture, construct, categorise and, in a sense, even define, the Gothic in contemporary culture. Along with Dale Townshend, I run the M.Litt in The Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling.