New French Extremity
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Sep 18, 2026
Travis FoleyGUEST
Yeah.
Travis FoleyGUEST
Um, this one I've been after for a little while, uh, base moi, um, nice new French extremity film from 2000.
Travis FoleyGUEST
Again, I have not seen this.
Travis FoleyGUEST
Um, This is from Kino Lorber.
Travis FoleyGUEST
I missed it on a sale, and then Barnes & Noble had a sale on Kino title, so I grabbed that.
Travis FoleyGUEST
I'm trying to extend my new French Extremity collection a bit.
Travis FoleyGUEST
Very nice.
Travis FoleyGUEST
There's a pattern here.
KellyHOST
I feel like Evil Dead Burn is, it's...
KellyHOST
This is basically New French Extremity Evil Dead, in my opinion.
BriHOST
Yeah, yeah.
BriHOST
Mm-hmm.
KellyHOST
Like, that's, that's how I feel about this movie.
KellyHOST
I feel like it, this whole film feels like you could take Evil Dead off of the label and be like, "Oh, this is a new Evil Dead Evil.
KellyHOST
A new, New French Extremity film," and I'd be like, "Yeah, that makes sense to me." Like, it, and, and I think-
BriHOST
Yeah
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Whereas many of those 1970s classics were famously light on blood, this new round of remakes pushed popular horror toward new levels of grisly spectacle, pain, mutilation, captivity, endurance, and bodily violation.
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In this connection, the horror remakes of the 2000s took many cues from the contemporaneous movement of New French Extremity as well as other continental art house provocateurs like Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, and Gaspar Noé.
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The second major tendency was the rise of jump scare-driven franchises like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Conjuring.
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These movies told relatively simple stories about haunted houses, demonic possessions, and paranormal investigators.
DomNARRATOR
Nonetheless, Carax and his lead actress, Ekaterina Golubeva, started a relationship, and they have a daughter together.
DomNARRATOR
Pola X was also in the early entry to the then-growing film movement called New French Extremity, where filmmakers in France... make transgressive works involving sex, violence, body horror, and the 21st century political anxiety.
DomNARRATOR
During the 2000s, Leos Carax directed some music videos and short films, including a segment, Merde, for the anthology movie Tokyo.
DomNARRATOR
Merde is about the titular monster living in the sewer of Tokyo who goes on a rampage, and is played by Carax's regular, Denis Lavalme.