Synopsis

Official: 'Livid' is a horror fairytale set during Halloween night when three youths decide to burglarize an old lady's desolate house, but what awaits them is no ordinary house...

Alternate: A young woman and her friends break into a decrepit mansion looking for treasure, only to unlock a dark secret of unspeakable horror ready to dish out bloody punishment for their greed.

LONG: Billed as a "dark romantic fairy tale," "Livid" turns on three young men who decide to rob an elderly woman's house in the Irish heathlands.

It’s young Lucy’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel’s treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever…

This will be the English language debut for the duo and is set to roll later in 2009.

Official Review

For the first time in five years I was a witness to the rowdy Midnight Madness audience stunned to deafening silence. The theater carried this glazed look of shock that people display when they’re witness to a horrible accident. In fact, it was the exact opposite experience from when I witnessed the premiere of French directing duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s Inside back in 2007. …Read More