Trailer for Dramatic Horror ‘The Strange Case of Jacky Calliou’ Transforms Into a Wolf [Exclusive]

Dark Star Pictures will release Lucas Delangle’s highly-anticipated werewolf horror-fantasy The Strange Case of Jacky Calliou in theaters April 7 and on VOD and DVD April 11, and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the film’s trailer.

In the film…

“When Jacky’s grandmother, a renowned healer, suddenly passes away and a particularly compelling young woman with a mysterious rash arrives on his doorstep, he has no choice but to stay and try to help. As her condition worsens, it becomes clear that she’s afflicted with no ordinary illness. She’s transforming into something dangerous before his eyes, but he’s already in too deep to abandon her.”

Thomas Parigi, Edwige Blondiau, Lou Lampros, and Jean-Louise Coulloc’h star in a film that “spooks its audience without the use of many special effects.”

“It’s an invisible force, so we have to find ways to materialize it all the time in the image,” said Delangle. “This is done through close-ups on the hands, the faces (the one who is magnetized and the one who magnetizes), through an intensity, and then, through the air that exists between the hands and the body. For example, there is a tracking shot of Jacky’s hands approaching Elsa’s back, where you can feel the distance: when you get to her, her back stiffens. The idea was to always go through the body, not to support the action with sounds or special effects, but rather with very simple things like the shadow of Jacky’s hands on Elsa’s back. It is these visual patterns that create the magic.”

Delangle says he was inspired by the works of Alain Guiraudie, “who masters the mixing of genres and fiction anchored in a territory. He has a lot of humor, and manages to make actors and non-professionals coexist in a beautiful authenticity. I also had in mind Happy as Lazzaro and its magical realism. Jacky could be a distant cousin of Lazzaro. He is naive, a bit of a dreamer. I remember that when I was writing the script, I was thinking about that. Jacky is a young man who is bored and has the hope that suddenly something extraordinary will happen. As he is vain, he thinks that the extraordinary will happen through him. It may not be the case.”

Check out the trailer…

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