La mansión

A band of students comes to celebrate the New Year in an old manor house isolated from everything. But soon after their arrival, strange events disrupt the atmosphere, before the party turns squarely into a nightmare.

"Le Manoir" is a film that requires a little bit of patience. If you were to only watch the first ten or twenty minutes and then walk out, you would leave thinking this is just another slasher film about twentysomethings getting picked off one by one. For some people that may be a good film, but others will find it to be something that is a tired genre. If the 1980s did not beat the slasher into the ground, the early 2000s killed it.

But wait! Wait! This is not just another slasher. It is a farce, an inversion of the classic slasher with some spot on humor that is desperately needed. In much the same way that "Tucker and Dale Versus Evil" twisted the redneck / hillbilly trope around, "Le Manoir" successfully bends the And-Then-There-Were-None trope into a comically exhilarating mess.

When the young folks are not busy being killed off one by one, often in humorous ways, we are treated to some strange jokes that only those with a dark sense of humor can appreciate. A man who is ridiculously well-endowed has it used against him. Some folks have never heard of "taxidermy" before, apparently. Animals that seem more at home in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" make some cameos. And a collar-popping party boy runs into bear traps. Oh, wait, what about the running joke about Oscar Pistorius? Poor taste or comedic brilliance? All the stereotypes are here, from the shy girl to the loose girl to the drug addict and more. But they may not turn out to be used in the stereotypical way. On top of this, it is a costume party, so looks could be deceiving. French humorist Ludovik appears as Ron Weasley, and this makes him appear less formidable than he would otherwise be, for example.

"Le Manoir" is a challenge to review, but a real joy to watch. This is the sort of horror comedy that would play well with an audience and could easily grow in reputation as it ages. The film screens at the Fantasia International Film Festival on July 21, 2017 and is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

It was silly, kinda dumb in parts, but also entertaining and hilarious! And pretty good FX too. I enjoyed it!

The Mansion is a French comedy horror that despite diving headfirst into the usual tropes and cliches actually manages to be fairly enjoyable.

It tells the story of 10 friends who rent out a mansion for the night to celebrate new years. But in traditional style people begin to get picked off one by one.

Comedy? Check, plenty of laughs are to be had. Sure a lot of it is "Stoner" humor but it works, in fact fans of Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010) may well appreciate this as it's in a very similar vein.

Horror? Check, but not a vast amount. If this was a scale it would lean heavily towards comedy but there is enough horror to justify the tag. We have an antagonist, we have a couple of jump scares, but it's still light on the horror as a whole.

I laughed out loud a fair few times, I think not only were many of the jokes great but the delivery from this mostly unknown cast was done well.

This is a fantastic example of people needing to break out of their little mainstream Hollywood bubble and see what world cinema has to offer.

Plenty of flaws but nothing crippling, an enjoyable goofy comedy horror.

The Good:

Some great laughs

Decent character development

The Bad:

One needlessly grosse scene

Leave the pets alone for crying out loud

Stock scream

Hard to judge this movie to be honest, it's supposed to be horror/comedy, well it kind of is, but then again it feels really weird. The humour in this movie is really dry, never knew the french could make a movie like this, quite surprised.

As far as horror is concerned it isn't scary nor was it meant to be by the producers, so not being scary and at the same time not really being a comedy it really leaves this movie quite empty. Can't really describe it as cliche, since the whole setup here is way different than that of a Hollywood horror/comedy movie, sadly this movie just doesn't feel satisfying, the plot twist is quite horrible too. The acting isn't the greatest either, so really don't know what to make of this mediocre french horror flick.

I wouldn't say this is something really worthwhile, as there are a lot of great movies of this genre out there, for example, ''Tucker and Dale vs Evil'', ''Shaun of the Dead'' and ''Zombieland'', just to name a few, i noticed some people here are comparing this film to these movies and i strongly dissagree as this film does not deliver on any of the fronts the above mentioned horror comedy classics do.

Overall not a great watch, do not listen to people comparing this mediocre movie to great cult classics only due to the fact its foreign, i get that people are thirsty to appreciate art outside of the well known Hollywood layout, which is a posittive side note, but a movie being different does not always make it amazing!

This is a French horror they said with an overlay of comedy. I must say that in my entire life I never laughed with French humour but I do adore their horrors. Over the top gore mostly or straight in your face.

Sadly, Le Manoir doesn't contain one piece of that. The humour is so childish that I rather thought kill 'em all in stead of run run. On part of the horror, it's really never there. You must wait until the last 30 minutes until things go wrong but it's low on gore or let's just say horror. The effects on the other hand are really well done and above mediocre.

Maybe the funniest part is the Spanish speaking boar. And maybe teens could have a laugh with the sex jokes told. Is it worth seeing for the geeks, well, if you haven't got anything else then you could see it but otherwise it's a waist of time.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5