An edgy new voice within the world of French genre, Adrien Beau worked as a designer and scenographer for the likes of Dior, John Galliano and Agnes B before making his feature debut with the offbe…
at Les Films du Bal, “Vourdalak” will world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week and will likely be one of its boldest entries. At a time when horror has become a mainstream genre overloaded with special effects, “Vourdalak” couldn’t be more radical. Lensed in Super 16, the film’s central character is a vampire patriarch named Gorcha, played by a marionette that Beau operates and lends his voice to.
Even if it’s inspired by a published material, “Vourdalak” is in many ways a personal film for Beau, as it brings together his “passion for 19th century dark romanticism and puppetry.” Shooting the film this way came with constraints because they “couldn’t have as many horror scenes as in a classic horror film,” he says. “You can’t have as many special effects because they’re real effects, but this limitation forces you to be more inventive and create characters differently so that we care about them. As my editor told me, with special effects it looks real but it feels fake, and with what we created, it looks fake but hopefully it feels real.
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