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Chimères (2013)

Directed by Olivier Beguin

Horror | Romance | Action

Overview

A young couple, Alexander and Livia, take off on holiday to Romania. Hospitalized after being hit by a car, Alexander must undergo a blood transfusion—with horrifying consequences: upon his return, he seems afflicted with a strange disease.

Length 82 minutes

Actors

Jasna Kohoutova | Yannick Rosset | Catriona MacColl | Ruggero Deodato | Paulo dos Santos

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
10/27/2021TVStreamingVideo on Demand7 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Full point up for the swings this takes in mashing up genres yet keeping the couple and their relationship at the core. I love couples movies but tend to avoid them bc they (now) make me sad. This one definitely squeezed my heart. Also reminded me a of HABIT but I haven’t seen that in 20 years so I could be misremembering. Just the street / urban vibe of it since that’s also a vampire movie.

Someone on my TL recommended this for October viewing so I made a note. Wish I knew who it was so I could thank them. Happy to find this streaming on Plex which I have never used before (PQ is great) but I would totally get this on Blu if it were available. Suppose I could revisit if purposely wanted to get depressed.

Comments

avatarsleestakk
3 years ago

ML not letting me edit so here’s my additional notes:

There’s an older women who looked really familiar. Turns out that was Catriona MacColl, who starred in a few EuroHorror flicks in the early 80s! So cool that got her for this film.

*Just saw that HABIT was added to Shudder so it would be a good one to revisit. Larry Fessenden FTW

avatarsleestakk
3 years ago

UPDATE: I guess it’s only this log that’s not allowing edits. Need to ask Ron about it.