GoC: The Soul Eater (2024)

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”A disturbing feast”

– Billie Walker / Dread Central

”Brilliantly entertaining”

– Phil Wheat / Nerdly

”The most successful Bustillo and Maury collaboration since Livid”

– Theodoor Steen / Screen Anarchy

”Part gripping police procedural, part Gallic Gothic shocker — A compelling and deeply unsettling trip”

– James Gracey / Behind the Couch

”A secluded community is haunted by a legendary beast; everyone in town has heard of it, but it is only after a series of violent deaths (and some mysterious disappearances) that people put two and two together. Married couples are found dismembered, their children vanished in thin air; shipped from Paris to investigate the murders is police chief Guardiano (Virginie Ledoyen), while the missing kids fall under the jurisdiction of detective de Rolan (Paul Hamy). —

The Soul Eater is paved with deaths, but its violence has a cool, detached effect. This isn’t a horror powered by blood so much as its intimations, and the scariest moments are those that evoke gore via its absence —

This is a sleek genre exercise, a horror crafted not to peddle some profound meaning, but to frighten and delight.”

– Leonardo Goi / The Film Stage