Georges Lautner, like Edouard Molinaro and Gérard Oury, began his career in atmospheric noir movies, then turned to classic cult comedies. After a great number of these cult comedies, nearly at the end of his career, Lautner in 1988 directed this forgotten "la Maison assassinée", very atmospheric come back of a young soldier from WWI whose family has been slaughtered in a small mountain village. It's gripping from the very beginning and climax increases till the end. It's a dark stories full of hate and non stop murders and mystery. The casting is incredible from Patrick Bruel (yes) to an old woman (Maria Meriko) and the fabulous three young beauties of the village (divine Anne Brochet, sensual Ingrid Held, sweet Agnès Blanchot) and all the others. The entire movie is well done, there isn't any bad scene, and there are some exciting and successive strong murder sequences. Should be a real cult Lautner movie.
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