The other day it was announced that Talal Selhami will be getting behind the camera for The Carnival of Illusions, a new horror film co-scripted by Selhami and Cyril Rolland (The Pack). This evening Bloody-Disgusting with provided with a full synopsis and official Cannes promo art for the film that takes on shades of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage and turns on a teacher who takes his 11-year-old daughter Liz to a summer boarding school in a quiet Alsace village where she begins to hear what seems to be the voice of another student, who's lying in semi-coma. Meanwhile, her father investigates the death of the teacher he's replaced.
"Liz, an eleven-year-old child deeply upset by her mother's death, tried to commit suicide. Persuaded that a change of circumstances will do the little girl a world of good, Paul, her teacher-father, agrees at short notice to stand in for a teacher in a summer boarding school located in Alsace, a few miles from the German border.
However, once there, the place proves to be less friendly than hoped. Liz soon becomes the victim of nightmarish visions. Even more disturbing, she develops the ability to communicate with Thomas, a boarder who is in a semi-coma, whose voice reaches her through an old cocked hat that was in his stuff.
As the friendship between Liz and her young friend becomes ever more symbiotic, her father starts inquiring on the bizarre death of the teacher he is replacing."
Oh, fuck I didn't see the details- Nevermind about the carnival thing. The film does seem slightly interesting though... Will NEVER live up to the Orphanage though.
The story seems like chick flick type horror to me but the title of the movie "The Carnival of Illusions" sounds pretty awesome. I guess the name might have something to do with the hat talking to her?
appleOFdiscord: Hey man, I'd love this if it was a "Carnival themed horror" film... but it's not. Based on the synopsis, this sounds like it has absolutely nothing to do with carnivals or carnie-people. I guess they just chose the title because it sounds "cool."
I like the Hat, it probably suggests that the bad guy will wear it. It'll be refreshing to see a new kind of boogeyman after all the remakes.The carnival theme makes me want to see it, definitely a good idea. When does this come out?
The plot sounds like it could be fantastic if it's done right but awful if done bad. I'll keep on eye out on this one and pray it will be as good as The Orphange which is kind of impossible.
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