EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based genre special WTFilms has boarded Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s horror thriller ‘ The Soul Eater ’ ahead of the AFM . The chilling drama unfolds against the backdrop of a mountain village where an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces following the disappearance of local children and a series of violent and gruesome deaths. Virginie Ledoyen ( Just the Two of Us ) and Paul Hamy ( The Last Journey ) co-star as two police detectives with very different methods who are sent to investigate the crimes.
Sandrine Bonnaire ( Happening ) joins them in the cast. The production is adapted from French writer Alexis Laipsker’s bestseller of the same name. WTFilms has released a first-look image (see above) and will screen a first promo in the market for the French-language film which is in post-production.
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The new film is produced by Phase 4 Productions and Place du Marché Productions, while Star Invest has pre-acquired French rights. There have been suggestions that independent European sales companies will be thinner on the ground at the AFM this year, but WTFilms is gearing up for a busy market. “AFM remains an important market for us to attend given our focus on genre films… said WTFilms co-head Gregory Chambet [alongside Dimitri Stephanides], who reports strong demand for horror, action and science fiction titles heading into the market.
Further new titles on its slate include Abel Danan’s English-language horror Don’t Watch about a gathering of influencers in an isolated country house, which turns bloody after an insistent stalker turns up following a live video stream. WTFilms is also launching Frédéric Jardin’s English and French-language post-apocalyptic thriller Survive , starring Émilie Dequenne as a mother battling to keep her children alive after the world undergoes a polarity reversal which drains water from the oceans, unleashing flesh-eating creatures from the abyss. WTFilms is co-selling the movie with Federation Studios newly launched an international theatrical film sales label Ginger & Fed, headed by with Sabine Chemaly.
The company will also kick off sales on on James Mark Fight English-language sci-fi combat drama Fight Another Day , co-starring Eric Johnson , Christina Ochoa, Martin Kove and Jim Belushi, and Pierre Mouchet’s remote mountain village-set revenge horror thriller Schlitter in which a man finds himself being pursued by the father of a friend who died as a child in a tragic circumstances. .
From: deadline
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