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Gueules noires

  • 2023
  • 12
  • 1h 43m
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5.6/10
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Gueules noires (2023)
Monster HorrorAdventureHorror

Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time... Read allMiners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.

  • Director
    • Mathieu Turi
  • Writer
    • Mathieu Turi
  • Stars
    • Samuel Le Bihan
    • Amir El Kacem
    • Jean-Hugues Anglade
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    2.8K
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    • Director
      • Mathieu Turi
    • Writer
      • Mathieu Turi
    • Stars
      • Samuel Le Bihan
      • Amir El Kacem
      • Jean-Hugues Anglade
    • 18User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 13 wins & 25 nominations total

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    Samuel Le Bihan
    Samuel Le Bihan
    • Roland
    Amir El Kacem
    • Amir
    Jean-Hugues Anglade
    Jean-Hugues Anglade
    • Professeur Berthier
    Thomas Solivérès
    Thomas Solivérès
    • Louis
    Diego Martín
    Diego Martín
    • Miguel
    Bruno Sanches
    Bruno Sanches
    • Santini
    Marc Riso
    • Polo
    Antoine Basler
    • Félix Mora
    Wabinlé Nabié
    • Le pénitent
    Rachid Guellaz
    Rachid Guellaz
    • Saïd
    Mohamed Aroussi
    • Rachid
    • (as Moh Aroussi)
    Mikaël Fitoussi
    • Mineur 1856
    Arthur Guivarch
    • Jeune Mineur 1856
    Carl Laforêt
    • Doublure Mok'Noroth
    Yves Turi
    • Un mineur
    Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton
    • Fouassier
    • Director
      • Mathieu Turi
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      • Mathieu Turi
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    7Coventry

    Deep in the underground is where genuine horror lives...

    First, maybe a little word on the original French title "Gueules Noires", which is very different from the international title "The Deep Dark" and can roughly be translated as "Black Snouts". It refers to how the hard and devastating work in the mining industry makes every person equal. Regardless of what race you are, or what skin color you have, working underground in the mines makes everyone's face black with dirt.

    "The Deep Dark" is a prime example of the type of horror in which the French are specialized. Raw, sinister, unpleasant, and relentless terror with exclusively unsympathetic characters and without the slightest bit of comic relief. Pure and genuine horror, in other words, and I - for one - love it (despite several flaws).

    In the 1850s, in Northern France, 27 miners tragically die when the shafts collapse shortly after they made an archeologically groundbreaking but deeply disturbing discovery. 100 years later, in the same mine, a versatile group of miners is forced to accompany an arrogant anthropologist down the shafts, because he's convinced the deep underground layers hide evidence of a previously undiscovered civilization. They find a new civilization, all right, but its deity turns out to be a terrifying and invincible monster.

    The script of "The Deep Dark" certainly isn't without holes or massively implausible plot elements, but you simply got to love the grim atmosphere and claustrophobic tension that writer/director Mathieu Turi creates. And the monster, of course! I have seen thousands of horror movies, and I guarantee the monster of this film is one of coolest and most jaw-droppingly astounding ones of the last two or three decades. The creature is also as violent and bloodthirsty as it looks, which results in a handful of excessively gruesome deaths and make-up effects that are not meant for squeamish viewers. Highly recommended to true horror junkies.
    6ma-cortes

    A passable film with plenty of suspense , merciless horror , screams , shocks and tension.

    Claustrophobic and disturbing medium-budgeted film packed with tension , shocking scenes , thrills , and chills. Factory boss Fouassier (Philippe Torreton) assigns a mining mission to Roland. Miners (Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivérès, Diego Martín, Bruno Sanches) led by Roland are forced to take Professeur Berthier (Jean-Hugues Anglade) underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. Later on, they're exploring deep underground , the expedition gets horribly worse when they become lost , rockfall collapse and they don't find the dark way out . After delivering further into the cavern , things go awry. A landslide prevents them from going back up, and they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.

    Horror story filled with suspense, upsettling supernatural events, relentless terror, as well as lots of gore and blood . This frightening french movie concerns a group of miners, being trapped and chased into claustrophobic caves. Mathieu Turi (Meander) directs this scary horror film starring Samuel Le Bihan, winner of the French Cesar for Best New Actor in 1997 for Captain Conan, and being set in the depths of a coal mine in 1956. An horror film, taking place a chilling beginning, after that, the plot jumps forward 100 years, when a group of miners and a professor in search of samples become trapped 1000 meters underground; there they must find a way out and escape the sinister presence that lurks in the tunnels. Along with Samuel Le Bihan, the cast is completed by French Cesar winner Jean-Hugues Anglade (Queen Margot), Diego Martin (Rec 3), Amir El Kacem (Overdose), Tomas Solivéres (Mr. Henri shares a flat), among others.

    This is one of the creepiest french horror movies of the last years and it contains thriller, chiller , cannibalism , blood and gore. The horror and gory moments are compactly made and fast-moving in which the brutal instincts of survival of the human beings are well shown. Ordinary terror film features an acceptable french cast , being shot on location in Wallers-Arenberg, Nord, France, Oignies, Pas-de-Calais, Bruay-la-Buissière, Angoulême and Morocco.

    It packs a sinister, ghastly and horrifying atmosphere, full of eerie scenes by means of shaky camera carried out by cinematographer Alain Duplantier or with camera over shoulders and at times itself takes place from personal point of sight from cameraman .

    The motion picture was professionally directed by Mathieu Turi, but nothing special because we have seen these terrifying situations many times before and even better filmed. Turi is a nice craftsman, a writer/filmmaker expert on terror films ,and he has directed a few movies and Shorts, such as: Meander (2020), Hostile (2017), Broken (2012), Sons of Chaos (2010). Well worth seeing if you like the terror films.

    Other pictures dealing with this sub-genre about people caught and pursued in caves are the following ones : ¨Sub-human¨ (1972) by Gary Sherman with Donald Pleasence , Norman Rossington , David Ladd ; ¨What wait below¨ (1985) by Don Sharp with Robert Powell , Timothy Bottoms , Lisa Blount , Anne Heywood , Richard Johnson . And recently : ¨The cave¨ by Brian Hunt with Cole Houser , Piper Perabo , Eddie Cibrian , Rick Ravanello ; ¨The descent¨(2005) by Neil Marshall with Alex Reid , Natalie Mendoza , Shauna MacDonald , both them dealing with people caught into caverns and besieged , chased , attacked by packs of carnivorous , bloodthirsty , crawling creatures are waiting for them and finally ¨la Cueva¨(2014) by Alfredo Montero.
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    THE DESCENT meets DJINNS

    The French horror industry provided many movies during the 2000's and early 2010's and suddenly more or less disappeared, at least in France, and the directors moved away to Hollywood ( Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gens, Eric Vallette ) because of bigger budgets at their disposal and the opportunity to increase their popularity; bigger budget but also pain the ass producers on their back. This movie offers the peculiarity to show a first part which looks like a social drama, a semi documentary about pit coal workers, underground miners, during the fifties, a plot speaking of racism...And suddenly, after the first part, it suddenly turns into a horror film, as we have seen before in the American and also some French industry stuff. Good directing, acting, production design - which surprised me, especially in the first part, with Philippe Torreton whom I did not expect to see in a horror film. I like Samuel Le Bihan, in a charismatic leader role, tough, rough, fair, the same kind of character - or more precisely personality - he had in TOTAL WESTERN. Good French horror film which also made me think of Neil Marshall's THE DESCENT. But for me it is so surprising that there is NO FEMALE character in this film, in a period where strong lead women characters, even in actioners, are galore. Galore. It would not have surprised me to have here a woman sent among men, into the mine, fighting alone against the "thing".
    9Fella_shibby

    A terrific monster movie. Finally a frightening n intimidating monster.

    I wanted to watch this on a big screen when it released in May 2024 but there was only one show of 11 pm and that too nowhere in Bandra bt far off in town side.

    Missed it cos of my early morning gym training duty.

    Saw this last nite on Amazon Prime.

    I enjoyed this movie.

    It has one of the coolest monster, terrifying n intimidating.

    There is ample amount of tension n the kills r gruesome.

    The best part is that inspite of the movie's entire setting taking place in a mine and an even deeper cave, without any sunlight or artificial light, one can make out wots going on.

    No hand held shaky cam stuff n no flickering lights.

    Wish they had shown more of the monster's past.
    6highwingremnants

    A mixed bag

    I really wanted to love this, but the movie makes it impossible. It's one of these "Can you enjoy the ride?" deals. This would have been absolutely unforgivable if you'd paid cinema money to see it in a theatre, but in your living room it's a different proposition.

    I thought I had stumbled upon a hidden indie horror gem for much of the movie. I'm old enough to be willing to forgive some jank in the practical effects (seriously, you feel like you're going to see the strings at any moment), especially when the movie is making up for it in so many other ways. I like the characters, I like the way it's shot and lit, I like the direction (except the framing of the antagonist in almost every shot where it appears) and the environments are great. It even seems like it's building up to something: some intriguing discoveries, some Lovecraftian details, some hints that there might be a clever denouement coming down the pipe. There is not. They really did not know how to end this.

    Thematically, the fingerprints of As Above So Below are all over this. If you enjoyed that movie and you're willing to accept that you're getting more of that concept but in a package that is lower budget and mostly not as good, then congratulations: set your sights low, and you'll get more from it than you expect.

    On the positive side, there were many points where I was reminded of Season 1 of The Terror, in that you have a bunch of tough men in a dangerous situation, with such daily stresses that you might expect a horror story to see them all tearing each other apart, but instead you get a lot of moments of genuine care and tenderness that make you realise that these men depend on kindness in order to survive. These moments of respect towards each other and even the animals were some of my favourite scenes. Just like The Terror, of course there's one agent of chaos in there and another figure of sufficient power to compel them forwards.

    Too many directors look at the circumstances of their plot and think to themselves, "Hey! Darkness! Tight spaces! Stranded people! This is kind of like Alien!" and then barrel towards that idea without any subtlety, and unfortunately this is one of those. So, we're soon torn from the qualities of The Terror towards a box-ticking exercise of What Works (or What's Supposed To Work). Perhaps this is what they needed to do in order to get the film funded and made, but it does suffer for that. There were some ideas in here that could have been great if they'd stuck to the potential of their set-up and developed that. Given the midway reveal of what the miners are dealing with, I would have liked it to get a lot more weird and come to a very different ending.

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      • November 15, 2023 (France)
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