Long Weekend
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
A young couple from the city decide to take advantage of a long weekend to go wild camping by the sea. In imperceptible stages, the paradise-like setting of the secluded beach where they set up camp takes on a mysterious quality, before turning into a veritable hell: Nature suddenly seems to be taking its revenge on civilization...
The trailer contains some french subtitles, but the movie will be presentend without subtitles.
Colin Eggleston
Colin Richard Francis Eggleston was an Australian writer and director of TV and films. He began his career making police dramas for Crawford Productions.
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