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SHEITAN (2006) France subtl.

  • ON Christmas eve bunch of horny rowdy chavs at a DJ club try to get laid, one of them (Bart) gets samshed in the face with a bottle after being rebuffed by a girl he's hitting on. They get into a tiny car, rob a convenience store of candy and gas (while watching a Santa Claus slasher flick) and take off for the country. They wake up with the car blocked on a dirt road by some goats, one of which is big and black and looks like it stepped off the set of a 70's devil worship film. They meet up with a guy who looks like John Holmes with wooden teeth with a perpetual shite-eating grin and a skinny retarded-looking kid who later puts locusts in a girl's bed and is later found hiding in a clock (!?) (echoes of Jean Rollin) Joe pushes the car out of the mud and they head to the villa owned by the family of one of the girls in the cadre where smiley is the caretaker and has a (seldom-seen) pregnant wife sneaking about. In true 70's Euro-horror form the upper floors are filled with dolls and mannequins. They have dinner (with a disgusting eating scene) where Joseph makes racist comments to the black guy and tells a story of a guy screwing his sister and a deformed baby coming out. He takes them into town where he introduces Bart to a girl who appears to be a nymphomaniac, who he reveals to be niece. They go swimming in a hot spring cave where a bunch of townies jump in naked and they get into a fight, of sorts. Back at the villa, they dry off and various characters pair off. The girls are on again off again. They hear a gunshot, go up the attic where one of the mannequins comes to life and they find the townies from the hot spring in the house. They take off and chase them on motorcycles and the townies crash. There are some whiffs of slasher movie, but it never really goes there. Joseph's very pregnant wife gives birth and we have a hallucination/flashback to the beginning of the movie.  Some reviews said this was meant to be a comedy. You decide. This could only have been made in France.