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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
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6.5
/10
573 Ratings

Synopsis

Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote a new horror movie at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie tells of a killer in a welding mask who murders using a hammer and sickle. The trouble begins when a real killer with the same m.o. begins knocking off projectionists at market screenings.

Our take

A detective story with tinges of horror cinema, this Cannes-set comedy parodies big budget American movies—The Terminator, Basic Instinct, and Pretty Woman among others—while pulling off the perfect dose of deadpan humor. A wild and pleasingly delirious ride, starring French icon Alain Chabat.