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10/16/08
Sheitan (2006)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:9
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Vincent Cassel (LA HAINE) plays a psychotic groundskeeper who welcomes in the daughter of his employee after she has enjoyed a hard night of partying with her friends (whom she also brings along).... [More]
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Roxane Mesquida, Olivier Bartelemy
Director: Kim Chapiron
Reviews for Sheitan
1 - 18 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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10/13/07
Manages a playful sensibility, reveling in its repugnance and enjoying the heck out of its twisted ending.
03/16/07
At the end, you feel they should have thrown out Rosemary's baby with the bath water.
02/26/07
An eyecatching calling card for its first-time director.
02/26/07
If only Cassel had saved his performance for a collaboration with the League of Gentlemen.
02/26/07
Despite the air of brutish aggression and sexual predatoriness, little happens until gory retribution finally rears its head.
02/23/07
Totally bonkers – but all the more gripping for it.
02/23/07
The film, shot in a demented, headlong style, seems to have no idea of its direction other than the shelf marked "cult".
02/23/07
As a grotesque parody of the hillbilly-terror genre, it has a real wit and energy.
02/23/07
A contrived and very self-conscious genre piece of hardcore black-comedy horror in a 1970s vein.
02/23/07
Top CriticHas plenty of atmosphere but can't make up for unpleasant characters and a meandering story.
02/23/07
Vincent Cassel is the overpowering presence here; his perma-grinning, unkempt Joseph is brilliantly unsettling.
02/23/07
Despite some pretentious touches – a night-spot named Club Styxx, a guard dog called Cerberus – Satan doesn’t take itself too seriously.
02/22/07
t’s pronounced ‘Shite-an’, as in ‘Shite an’ then some’.
02/22/07
Entertaining and genuinely creepy at times this boasts strong performances from its French cast.
02/22/07
Top Criticwrong on so many levels that the mind boggles
01/05/07
Without being overtly graphic, this audaciously boorish and naughty film delivers the familial conspiracy of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with unnerving Deliverance-like hicks as slapstick riffs...
12/24/06
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