billcr12 Sheitan is a French horror film that really doesn't go anywhere or provide many scary moments. Vincent Cassel is unrecognizable as the lead villain Joseph; he's sufficiently menacing but the weak script is well below his acting talents. Cassel was the dance director in last years much hyped and overrated Black Swan. Here he scowls and physically abuses most of the cast throughout this scare fest.On the positive side, Roxane Mesquida provides eye candy(as she did in the horror- parody Rubber recently). As the temptress Eve she has brought a few bar patrons to her family's rural farm for a supposed romantic getaway. Of course things don't turn out as planned for the prospective soul mates. Ms. Mesquida does have an all to brief nude scene with 2 guys. The movie only runs an hour and a half, so if you're a horror fan, this is very middle of the road with some better and some worse in this genre. The two aforementioned leads make the ride marginally passable.

brooz Did you see some references to Kourtrajmé in this movie? Because this movie is filled with that. 1st things 1st: What is Kourtrajmé. In french slang it means "short film". Kourtrajmé is a collective of street performers whose main concern are anti racism, playing with symbols, and having fun. Incorrect fun, that is: they play on fear of unknown and violence. Their main medium is unsurprisingly short film and music clips. From now on Kourtrajmé will be written as K for short. I ll list below all the references to K I found in this movie.Kim Chapiron, director, is from K. Thai is played By Nico Le Phat. He is a director from K. Mainly for clips. Barth (Olivier Barthelemy) can be seen on many clips from Romain Gavras, also from K. Ladj (Ladj Ly) is a director from K. Responsible for a famous (in France) fake documentary about hash pushers: Gofast connexion.The initial sentence, "God, don't pity them for they know what they do" is a recurring sentence from K. They usually aim it at politician who play hate-mongers and leave suburbs grow with poverty and violence. In the opening scene, the DJ (played by Mouloud, a friend of K, as all(?) the actors) wears a K Tshirt. On his mix table is a picture of a guy missing a tooth; he is Mohamed Mazouz, AKA HiTekk from La Caution, affiliated to K.At some point, Mouloud yells "Batards de barbares". It is the name of the clip watched by Barth, Eve and Thai. Check out for the soul rewrite by Mai Lan "Je t immole gentiment" (I immolate you kindly) with the crudest/grossest lyrics ever("I dig your grandma s grave and ra*e her and if u r not happy with it I ra*e your dad too")At some point their car is blocked by a pack of goats. Then Barth takes the billy-goats goatee and starts singing "par la barbichette". It is a french kiddie song/game in which both players hold the other s chin. The first to laugh gets a slap. "La barbichette" also is another short from Kim Chapiron in which Barthelemy and Cassel use this game to determine who is gonna help mum.In fact, the all film plays with our fears of the unknown: either the gangster style of the heroes, or the creepiness/racism of countryside people. Hence, this flick explores all the clichés of these groups.you might want to see more from K. then surf kourtrajme dot com

Tim851 Man, this was fun. It is very predictable, but still hilarious. I would hardly call this horror, since it never really tries to be scary. For the most part, it tries to be weird and funny.With a couple of other recent French flicks in mind I'm beginning to think that French people living in cities have even worse an image of their country folk than American metropolitans have of theirs.The predictability is stupid though. Same as with "Haute Tension" the film basically tells you how it's gonna end. HT tells you right in the beginning, Sheitan tells you half-way through. French movie makers seem to wanna create the Anti-Twist-Ending.This really is the French Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Only less massacre.

TdSmth5 For once all the usually exaggerated glowing reviews printed on the DVD jacket are right. This movie and the performance by Vincent Cassel are fantastic, demented, outrageous.A group of multicultural ghetto kids (a black guy, an Asian guy, a French goof with his dog, an Arab chick and a French girl) end up taking a trip to the countryside after the goof gets bottle smashed on his head in a club over the girl. As they arrive at the girl's home on the country, they run into the goatherd who lives there and guards the ranch: Joseph (played or rather embodied by Cassel), who is a little odd and not just physically. He seems to get rather "friendly" with goof.The father of the girl was a dollmaker (of course) so you have the obligatory room filled with dolls, doll parts, dismembered dolls, weird looking dolls, and some strange doll-making instruments one of which is this large corkscrew-shaped knife, which you just know will make an appearance later in the movie.In the village nearby they meet some of the villagers that look all like they have some genetic defect: a typhoid-looking kid who seems rather close to girl, and bunch of creeps on motorcycles, and the hot village slut, whom Joseph tries to hook up with goof.Later our gang goes bathing in a grotto. Not long after Joseph shows up and again gets uncomfortably close to goof, the rest of the village people show up as well and harass our friends. Slut goes after goof, who's not in the mood. So instead, slut gets rather touchy with his dog!- in defiance, in my opinion, of the censors.Back in the home, the guys, who all think of themselves as super machos and irresistible, while being rather ugly fellows, try to hook up with the girls. Problem: there's 2 girls for the 3 guys. Black guy, who has his girlfriend calling him on the phone all the time, tries to go for Arab chick- both are Muslims. While Asian guy and goof try to sort out who gets girl. Solution: they both get her and there's some threesome action.While all this is taking place, something is going in Joseph's room. His overweight wife is about to give birth at 12 midnight. This of course is not just an ordinary birth. Joseph wants to prepare a special doll for his future kid.Eventually, people start dying as Joseph goes completely nuts. But wait, could this all have been a dream/hallucination of goof who got beat in the head? This movie is the funniest horror movie I've seen in a long time. It's truly hilarious, it's politically incorrect, it's outrageous- not with lame punchlines, but with realistic characters and dialogue. The kids are horny dumbasses who tease each other and talk the big talk while being nobodies, they listen to some outrageous french/Muslim rap. But they are also truly funny in their naiveté and innocence despite pretending to be tough-guy casanovas.The dialogue is very natural for the age and social group, I imagine and I can only go by the subtitles which are good but sometimes missing. There are times when someone is saying an awful lot of stuff that doesn't make it to the subtitles. Some scenes can be pretty disgusting, there's a lot of animal business involved: a dog fight, goats being kicked and hit by car, vultures eating some rodent, and slut manually abusing the dog. I could have done without all that. But it's tolerable and the rest of the movie and Josheph's outrageous hilarious behavior make up for any shortcomings or scenes that may go to far.This movie is very original and unique. No American filmmakers would come up with something remotely as wild as this movie. The cinematography and camera work are pretty good, too. One of the finer entries in the French horror genre and this one is not your dry and predictable 'woman takes revenge on killer' type french gore movie. The story here is so different and surprising, it's a must see for fans of creepy movies.