THE INCIDENT ***

4sur5 Director of clips for artists mass (Air, Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius ...), the French Alexandre Courtes is now also an advertising spent to achieve the big screen (like Spike Jonze and David Fincher). The Incident is a monstrously effective horror thriller, with minimalist yet proven recipe. Three friends and members of a rock band on the verge of implosion, they are cooks in a prison building containing extremely hazardous clinical cases. A power failure will make them all hostage. The guards are depleted and must be taken an hour before help arrived.

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The only darkness shimmering corridors asylum justify the vision of The Incident and require sophisticated graphic borrows its author. If survival in a psychiatric hospital evokes Carpenter (The Mouth of Madness and Halloween in particular) most physical and impactful, it is also distinguished by the work made its atmosphere and lighting. Courtès fully exploits the mournful character of the area, supported by Baxter, editor Aja (and livid). The emphasis for the characters and in particular that of George (Rupert Evans) completes persuade, while we are left worrying about the sordid fauna of this camera. The finest specimen is Richard Brake, mouth inveterate psychopath, in the skin of Harry Green, probably Machiavellian villain of this story. Asylum Blackout is a (first) intense and remarkable film.
Overall Rating 74
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* The stage, the atmosphere, the aesthetic, the cast, everything is perfect and / or original

* A distinguished virtuoso program involving

* Quite conventional in the background

* After lackluster