The handcrafted art-horror of filmmaker Antoine Pellissier—a physician by day and horror maestro by night—is the underground answer to Jean Rollin. And Folies Meurtrieres is Pellissier’s crowning achievement. Shot on Super 8 film and never released outside of France, this dreamlike slasher follows a maniac who mutilates victims with a chainsaw, garden shears, and anything else that happens to be within reach. But is there more to the killer’s hypnotic, gore-soaked rampage than meets the punctured eye? With its Casiocore soundtrack and gorgeous analog visuals, Folies Meurtrieres is a heavenly discovery for discerning horrorheads.
