Brocéliande
Brocéliande
| 08 January 2003 (USA)
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Chloé, a student specializing in Celtic History, participate in a dig in the forest of Broceliande while a series of murder occurs on the campus. Chloé must soon face the mythical monster behind the string of murder and use her knowledge to make it out of the forest alive ...

Reviews
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Mathilde VDB What should i say? I only saw this flick for curiosity, and this is truly a shame... I grew up in Brittany with stories of celtic legends, and spent 5 years in Rennes, the town in which this film is said to take place... Shame that not any actor nor camera from this flick ever arrived in Rennes. They could at least have chosen a likely town, or a likely forest, but nothing even SEEM like Brittany nor Rennes... And calling it a film about celtic legends is really making a fool of the audience. Besides those details, it could have been a good film, but it's crap. Silly scenario, silly characters and no originality. Definitely to avoid.
Alexander Ruspandy I am gonna be generous for this one because this movie, no matter how bad other viewers say, was able to keep my attention from beginning until the end.Sure. the plot and twists are very typical. There are times where you wonder, "Where have I seen this before?" or something like that. However, it's impossible for people to watch this sort of movie and expect a Lord of the Rings-style storyline. It only aims to provide light entertainment for us to enjoy without stretching our heads.Besides, the actors played their part okay and the leading lady Elsa Kikoïne was extremely beautiful. I really want to see more of her in the future.The movie overall has a good pacing, never drags itself in one place for too long, and enjoyable to watch all over again. A good rental.
slowdriver A rather enjoyable debut from a director who seems to have a sincere fondness for horror films of a bygone era. In this fairly simple storyline (a murder mystery that turns into a monster movie), film buffs will find a hodge-podge of references to many genre classics, like Dario Argento's thrillers of the 70s or English Hammer films (in particular John Gilling's Plague of the Zombies for its ritual scenes), and even to stranger oddities like Jack Arnold's "Monster on the Campus" or the Avengers British TV series. Add a bit of Celtic mythology for a background, some fight scenes, and stir well... Now mixing all this into a pleasant, if air-headed, B-movie makes for an interesting challenge! It doesn't always succeeds but is certainly better than other French genre efforts in the field. The direction is often stylish and the performers have fresh faces, the music score is quite good.Of course this is a low budget production (it probably didn't cost more than a couple million dollars), and does suffer from it: several scenes could have been helped by better production values. And there are a few plot holes and a couple of long stretches. But it finally wins the day by retaining its charm to the end just out of sheer unpretentiousness. Not so common a feat, these days.
AliquaSalix I went to see this movie with the idea that I would somehow help French B-Movies, which have not been doing too well lately. I thought that I would probably regret it. I was wrong. Of course, Brocéliande is not a very good movie. Almost everything in it has been seen before, and they obviously lacked money and time. But this movie has a soul, or at least a true and fresh spirit. One can actually feel that the authors and the director meant to do some kind of tribute to horror and suspense movies. You can feel that they loved their project. If you go and see it in a good mood, if you let yourself slip into the story without thinking too much about its slight incoherences, then you can have a pretty good time.