Sheitan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450843/
Lord don´t forgive them, becouse they know what they do.

Bart, Ladj and Thaï meet Yasmine and Eve while they are partying at a club in Paris the night before christmas eve, the day of the birth of.. You know who.
The guys and Yasmine follows Eve out to her house in the countryside where they meet Joseph, the housekeeper.

Sheitan is Persian word for satan. If you haven´t allready figured it out, here are some hints within the movie.
Our young group start at a club called Styxx - Styxx or Styx was/is the river that are a bourder between the living and the dead world according to the greek mythology.
Joseph has a dog is named Cerberus, the 3 headed dog that guarding the gates of Hades - wich is the kingdom of death. In the movie Sheitan however, the dog has only one head.

Another satanic sign













So with that we can understand what kind of movie this is, but, this is all Vincent Cassels film, alltough Kourtrajme is behind the idea.
Joseph (Cassel) is the housekeeper, an odd personality to say the least. The locals may be even more strange.

Kim Chapiron, the director wrote the script with his father Christian Chapiron and they take their time before it gets violent. The strenght of the movie is Cassels acting and the strange vibes that something scary is about to happen.
Sheitan is bult up by dialog and once again; Cassels acting and charisma.

Eve presents her friends to Joseph
Eve - Thaï.
Joseph - Thaï
Eve - Bart.
Joseph - Marc.
Bart - no Bart.
Joseph - Marc
Eve - Yasmine.
Joseph - A camel rider.

Without being disrespectful or anything, but the villagers looks like if they are all inbreeds in some way. That also ads to the atmosphere and creepy feeling of Sheitan.
If you are expecting a movie with tons of horror elements or actionfilled horror scenes, then you are looking for the wrong movie.
However there are some scenes that are grapichly brutal but once again, Cassel, the atmosphere.

I might get shit for this, so sue me then. But Sheitan might be the evil twin of The shining.

So if you like or love the shining, you know you need to see Sheitan. Hell, Cassel is so great that that alone is well worth your cash.

Joseph and Thaï













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Tomorrow is christmas eve, but we don´t give a fuck!
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-That guy´s wierd, he looks like a dimwit perv.
-What´s a perv?
-You know… pervert.
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ75UJ_v7fM

http://www.sheitan-lefilm.com/

http://www.kourtrajme.com/

http://sheitan-lefilm.skyrock.com/

Trivia.
The black and white vampire movie that are shown at the gas station was made only for Sheitan, the lead actress in that are Monica Bellucci - she and Vincent are a couple. The movie was shot as an movie within the movie.

Vincent Cassel is also producer of Sheitan - his first production.

Cassel has worked with Kourtrajme before, wich he talks about in the extras on the dvd.

Kourtrajme has been a famous underground performance group in France for over 10 years, their videos (tv shows) has been banned since they have been to outrageus, in the same style or worse as Jackass and Dirty Sanchez.