Horror – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:15:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 DRACULA ../../../dracula/ Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:23:19 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25226

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.

DRACULA

| 2026 – 129′ –  Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Film & Literature.
Written by: Luc Besson.
Based on the Book By: Bram Stoker
Directed by: Luc Besson.
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bleu, Matilda De Angelis, Ewens Abid, Guillaume de Toncquedec, Jassem Mougari, Bertrand-Xavier Corbi.
In English.
A Vertical release. |

When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife (Zoë Bleu), he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death itself, guided by a single hope — to be reunited with his lost love. From the Writer/Director of Leon, The Big Blue, Lucy and The Fifth Element.

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TROUBLE EVERY DAY

| 2002  – 101′ – Erotic, Thriller, Horror, Women Directors.
Written by: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Directed by: Claire Denis.
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Aurore Clément.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2001, Toronto International Film Festival 2001.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
An AMC+/Shudder release.|

I love you so much I could eat you… Shane and June are American newlyweds in Paris, but this is no ordinary honeymoon. Shane is a man possessed, desperately searching for his old colleague, Dr. Leo Semeneau, with whom he worked on dangerous experiments into the human libido. He and Semeneau bear the terrible living scars of their researches, and Shane is tormented by a ravening hunger that will not be quieted. As Shane searches for Leo, the doctor pursues Core, his wife, who has fled the prison of her bedroom. Shane finds her first, crouched over the corpse of a young neighbour, splattered with blood. He helps to put her out of her misery. Bewildered, June struggles to understand her husband’s disturbingly erratic behaviour from a handful of clues. Nothing makes sense. And before she knows it, their bags are packed and they’re heading for home. Leaving behind them a chambermaid in a silent hotel room, her lifeless body ravaged and bitten… 

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BASTARDS

| 2013 – 101′ – Drama, Horror, Women Directors.
Written by: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Directed by: Claire Denis.
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor, Lola Creton, Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin, Florence Loiret-Caille, Christophe Miossec, Hélène Fillières, Eric Dupond-Moretti.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2013 (Un Certain Regard), Toronto International Film Festival 2013, New York Film Festival 2913.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sundance Select release. |

Captain on a container-ship, Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift. Sandra deems Edouard Laporte, a powerful businessman, responsible. Marco moves into the building where Raphaëlle, Laporte’s mistress lives with the couple’s son. What Marco hadn’t foreseen are Sandra’s twisted, secret manœuvres… and his love for Raphaëlle that could ruin everything.

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ANIMALE ../../../animale/ Wed, 21 May 2025 14:05:39 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=22099

ANIMALE

| 2025 – 94′ – Horror, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy.
Written by:  Emma Benestan.
Directed by:  Emma Benestan.
Starring: Oulaya Amamra, Damien Rebattel, Vivien Rodriguez, Claude Chaballier, Elies-Morgan Admi-Bensellam, Pierre Roux, Marinette Rafaï, Renaud Vinuesa.
Official Selection Cannes Critics Week 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

In the Camargue region of the South of France, there remains an infamous, long-standing tradition of bullfighting. Local youths participate in the elegant yet dangerous challenge, practicing a modernized version of the sport that seeks not to kill the animals but rather to showcase agility and dominance. Among them is Nejma, an intrepid twenty-two-year-old with dreams of one day winning the annual competition. The only woman working on the cattle ranch, she trains tirelessly to prove herself equal among the men, both in and outside of the arena. The ranchers share a deep respect for the bulls, though when a loose bull threatens the community of riders and young men begin turning up dead, a hunt to find and kill the creature begins. Nejma fears for the bull, beginning a dark, mysterious transformation of her own. The sophomore feature of French filmmaker Emma Benestan, Animale is “a brutal disorienting horror fable burning with feminine anger,” (AWFJ.org), and a thrilling entry into the body-horror subgenre.

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ALPHA ../../../alpha/ Mon, 19 May 2025 21:18:24 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=22081

OPENING IN THEATERS ON MARCH 13, 2026, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

ALPHA

| 2025 – 128′ – Drama.
Written by: Julia Ducournau.
Directed by: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, Louai El Amrousy, Jean-Charles Clichet, Christophe Perez, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025.
In French with English subtitles.
A Neon release. |

 

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. From the Palme d’Or winner writer/director Julia Ducournau (Titane).

 

 

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RAW

| 2017 – 99′ – Drama, Horror, Coming of Age.
Written by: Julia Ducournau.
Directed by: Julia Ducournau.
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas, Bouli Lanners, Marion Vernoux, Jean-Louis Sbille, Benjamin Boutboul.
Official Selection Cannes Critics Week 2016. Louis-delluc Prize Winner 2017.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
A Universal Studios release. |

In Justine’s family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind.The consequences quickly make themselves felt. Justine discovers her true nature. The first film from the Palme d’Or winner writer/director Julia Ducournau (Titane).

 

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ELSE ../../../else/ Tue, 06 May 2025 15:50:58 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21933 ELSE

| 2025 – 100′ –  A Belgium/France Co-Production. Fantasy, Horror.
Written by: Thibault Emin, Alice Butaud, Emma Sandona.
Directed by: Thibault Emin.
Starring: Matthieu Sampeur, Edith Proust, Lika Minamoto.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024.
A Fandor release. |

 

Anx has just met Cass when a mysterious virus breaks out: everywhere, people’s bodies are merging with objects. Stuck in their apartment, the couple must face this dreadful threat.

 

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MADS

| 2024 – 86′ –  Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
Written by: David Moreau.
Directed by: David Moreau.
Starring: Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, Lucille Guillaume, Yovel Lewkowski, Vincent Padermadjian, Najim Zeghoudi, Sami Abed, Jeremy Margalle.
In French with English subtitles. 17+
A Shudder release. |

Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car, she suddenly smashes her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies. Is this a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.Content expanded.

 

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TEDDY

| 2020 – 85′ –  Comedy, Fantasy, Horror.
Written by: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma.
Directed by: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma.
Starring: Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Paul Fabre, Jean-Michel Ricard.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2020.
In French with English subtitles.
A Shudder release. |

France, Pyrénées. Twentysomething Teddy lives in a foster home and works as a temp in a massage parlor. Rebecca, his girlfriend, will soon graduate. A scorching hot summer begins. But Teddy is scratched by a beast in the woods: the wolf that local angry farmers have been hunting for months. As weeks go by, animal compulsions soon start to overcome the young man…Content expanded.

 

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THE SHROUDS

| 2025 – 119′ – A Canada/France Co-Production, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-fi, Horror.
Written by: David Cronenberg.
Directed by: David Cronenberg.
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Eric Weinthal, Jeff Yung.
Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival 2024.
In English.
A Side Show / Janus Films release. |

Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed corpses as they decay in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

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