Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
This, un film de Romain Basset, was conceived under the working title "Fever" - which is much more apt for the feverish stream of surreal horror imagery, seemingly in tribute to yesteryear's hallucinatory Italian "giallo" cinema exemplified by cult-darling directors Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Michele Soavi (especially) and the father-son team of Mario and Lamberto Bava.
Only here there's even less of a solid plot, if possible.
Out-and-out horror films are a rarity in French cinema, to the point that a lot of the genre's Gallic fear-fests default to surrealist Jean Cocteau and his ORPHEUS and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Well, HORSEHEAD isn't near that good, but one can at least see a certain influence in the thin plot, most of which appears to be a string of nightmares.
