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In Netflix Belgian thriller Noise Mattias (Ward Kerremans), a social influencer with a baby son, uncovers secrets from the past when he and his wife, Liv (Sallie Harmsen), move back to his childhood home. It’s twisty and tinged with horror, but it also requires attention to follow what’s going on, and indeed, what’s real and what is not.

Co-written and directed by Steffen Geypens, it’s a small-town chiller that’s high on atmosphere, in particular (as you might expect) the audio elements as the increasingly unsettled Mattias dives down a rabbit hole of his family history, while becoming more and more disconnected from his child.

But what happened and why? We break it down.

Why have Liv, Mattias and Julius moved house?

Mattias’ father Pol (Johan Leysen) has dementia and is now in a nearby care facility. It’s close enough to the house where he...

Noise is a thriller directed by Steffen Geypens starring Sallie Harmsen and Ward Kerremans.

A psychological suspense thriller very much in the style of Henry James… except for the more than obvious discrepancies, and it’s modernised. Good photography, good performances in a script that does not want – at any time – to escape from the genre’s tempting clutches.

About the Film

A film with very good photography and with very well-directed and curated scenes for a script that, however, does not want to step outside the established patterns of these psychological horror and “house in the suburbs” and family secrets films.

The best of the movie: the actress, Sallie Harmsen – who looks (more than suspiciously) like Naomi Watts making one of those movies that the phenomenal Australian actress delights in doing. Sallie Harmsen provides the character of an anguished mother perfectly, portraying her character with ease and knowing how...

The Oscar winner will star and produce the Toronto sales title through his Fable House Production for Corsan alongside Corsan CEO Paul Breuls.

Corsan World Sales is talking to buyers in Toronto on the thriller and Paradigm represents Us rights.

Brian Tucker wrote the screenplay to Expiration, about a day in the life of a former rogue CIA agent who is poisoned before his planned retirement.

The producers have earmarked a March 2016 start in Europe.

Corsan’s production pipeline includes Emperor with Brody, Sophie Cookson, Paz Vega, Thomas Kretschmann and Belgium’s Sam Louwyck, Michael Pas and Lize Feryn.

The Prince Of Cool is in pre-production while the development slate features Confessions Of An Economic Hitman and the remake of All Quiet On The Western Front.

Sophie Cookson is set to star opposite Adrien Brody in Lee Tamahori‘s action-adventure film “Emperor,” according to Variety. The film, which is written Michael Thomas III (“The Devil’s Double”) and Jeffrey Hatcher (“The Duchess”), has previously recruited names like Paz Vega, Gotz Otto, Lize Feryn, Bill Skarsgard, Thomas Kretschmann, Oliver Platt, and Rutger Hauer to its cast. Eddie Marsan is also in talks to join. Cookson will play “a feisty and daring 21-year-old who infiltrates the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Brody) to avenge the death of her father at a time when the emperor is struggling to [...]

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