Stars: Vinicius Coelho, Pauline Morel | Written and Directed by Alexis Bruchon
We’ve all had that experience, especially as kids, when the darkness of bedtime is as terrifying as anything in any horror movie. I remember after seeing the original A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time being absolutely Terrified that Freddy Kreuger would reach out for my feet sticking out of my bed covers and take me off into the night.
That’s essentially what happens in The Eyes Below. Eugène goes to bed. Everything is calm and silent. About to fall asleep, something creeps up his legs, his stomach and then his chest. A mass, so heavy that he realises the night won’t be as peaceful as he thought…
French writer/director Alexis Bruchon made something of an impact with his first film, the noirish The Woman With Leopard Shoes, which told its story in a very minimalistic way.
We’ve all had that experience, especially as kids, when the darkness of bedtime is as terrifying as anything in any horror movie. I remember after seeing the original A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time being absolutely Terrified that Freddy Kreuger would reach out for my feet sticking out of my bed covers and take me off into the night.
That’s essentially what happens in The Eyes Below. Eugène goes to bed. Everything is calm and silent. About to fall asleep, something creeps up his legs, his stomach and then his chest. A mass, so heavy that he realises the night won’t be as peaceful as he thought…
French writer/director Alexis Bruchon made something of an impact with his first film, the noirish The Woman With Leopard Shoes, which told its story in a very minimalistic way.
- 8/31/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
FrightFest 2022 Review: The Eyes Below Will Have You Checking Under – and in – Your Bed for Monsters
Thinking that a monster, or monsters, lived under your bed was a right of passage for any child. Even if it was physically impossible for a monster to get under your bed, you convinced yourself it was there, somehow. But, time passes and you realise that it was just paranoia or an unfounded rumour - potentially drummed up by an elder sibling. Your bed is now ultimate comfort, your safe zone against the world, but this is not the case for Eugène in The Eyes Below. Eugène soon discovers that the only thing worse than thinking that a monster is under your bed is discovering a monster in your bed.
Journalist Eugène (Vinicius Coelho) wakes late one night to a presence in his bedroom, a presence in the shadows that quickly makes itself known to him. It’s his cat. Eugene struggles to get back to sleep so he continues...
Journalist Eugène (Vinicius Coelho) wakes late one night to a presence in his bedroom, a presence in the shadows that quickly makes itself known to him. It’s his cat. Eugene struggles to get back to sleep so he continues...
- 8/27/2022
- by James Doherty
- DailyDead
Alexis Bruchon’s jazzy DIY debut The Woman With the Leopard Shoes introduced the French filmmaker as the ultimate one-man-band. A writer, producer, director, editor, cinematographer, composer and sound designer who, with very little help and backing, could put together a visually-rich and properly thrilling little pot boiler. And his follow-up, this year’s equally handsome and handmade The Eyes Below, is happily more of the same; a stripped back chamber piece that puts visual storytelling loudly and proudly front-and-centre.
On the page, it’s a bare-bones chiller that basically comes down to simply a bad night’s sleep. A nervy journalist, on the brink of breaking a major, game-changing news story, retreats to an isolated cabin and settles in for the night, only to find a pair of piercing eyes watching him from beyond the foot of his bed. And what begins as a classical, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night style exercise in terror,...
On the page, it’s a bare-bones chiller that basically comes down to simply a bad night’s sleep. A nervy journalist, on the brink of breaking a major, game-changing news story, retreats to an isolated cabin and settles in for the night, only to find a pair of piercing eyes watching him from beyond the foot of his bed. And what begins as a classical, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night style exercise in terror,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In his latest podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright previews Frightfest 2022 with a host of filmmakers premiering their films at Frightfest 2022. You’ll hear from:
Burial writer/director Ben Parker Everybody Dies By The End writer & co-director Ian Tripp & co-director Ryan Schafer The Eyes Below writer/director Alexis Bruchon Powertool Cheerleaders Vs The Boyband Of The Screeching Dead writer/director Pat Higgins The Group writer/director William Higo Sorry About The Demon writer/director Emily Hagins
For more details and tickets to Frightfest see https://frightfest.nuwebgroup.com/
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Burial writer/director Ben Parker Everybody Dies By The End writer & co-director Ian Tripp & co-director Ryan Schafer The Eyes Below writer/director Alexis Bruchon Powertool Cheerleaders Vs The Boyband Of The Screeching Dead writer/director Pat Higgins The Group writer/director William Higo Sorry About The Demon writer/director Emily Hagins
For more details and tickets to Frightfest see https://frightfest.nuwebgroup.com/
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- 8/23/2022
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Neil Marshall's The Lair
The full line-up for this year's main Frightfest event has been revealed, with no fewer that 32 world premières, 22 international premières and 18 UK premières on the menu. It will open with Neil Marshall's hotly anticipated The Lair, the grisly tale of a fighter pilot shot down in Afghanistan who takes refuge in a cave only to find a whole new kind of threat lurking there. Other highlights include Carter Smith's bugged-out trafficking tale Swallowed, Yuri Baranovsky pointed occult fabled The Summoned, and Alexis Bruchon's deliciously creepy The Eyes Below, one for everybody who ever worried about something lurking under the bed.
"We are absolutely delighted with this year’s fantastic Arrow Video FrightFest line-up. This is the wildest and most diverse selection we have ever assembled," said festival co-director Paul McEvoy. "The mix includes a stunning variety of the latest must-see Sf,...
The full line-up for this year's main Frightfest event has been revealed, with no fewer that 32 world premières, 22 international premières and 18 UK premières on the menu. It will open with Neil Marshall's hotly anticipated The Lair, the grisly tale of a fighter pilot shot down in Afghanistan who takes refuge in a cave only to find a whole new kind of threat lurking there. Other highlights include Carter Smith's bugged-out trafficking tale Swallowed, Yuri Baranovsky pointed occult fabled The Summoned, and Alexis Bruchon's deliciously creepy The Eyes Below, one for everybody who ever worried about something lurking under the bed.
"We are absolutely delighted with this year’s fantastic Arrow Video FrightFest line-up. This is the wildest and most diverse selection we have ever assembled," said festival co-director Paul McEvoy. "The mix includes a stunning variety of the latest must-see Sf,...
- 7/16/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Arrow Video FrightFest returns to Leicester Square with one of its most diverse line-ups to date, opening with the world premiere of Neil Marshall’s action-packed gore shocker The Lair (pitched as The Dirty Dozen meets The Thing!), and closing with Scott Mann’s hotly anticipated, vertigo-inducing Fall, which strands two best friends at the very top of an abandoned 2000-foot high radio tower.
Marshall will also be on hand to introduce a special screening of the new 4K restoration of his werewolf classic Dog Soldiers, and won’t be the only horror Mvp in attendance. Genre icon Dario Argento premieres his newest giallo Dark Glasses, Brea Grant brings her Blumhouse-backed Torn Hearts, and indie-favourites-turned-Marvel-mainstays Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson return with their latest DIY blast of sci-fi Something In The Dirt.
Elsewhere in the programme are Sundance standout Piggy from Spanish writer-director Carlota Pereda, Bill Skarsgaard-starrer Barbarian, and Final Cut,...
Marshall will also be on hand to introduce a special screening of the new 4K restoration of his werewolf classic Dog Soldiers, and won’t be the only horror Mvp in attendance. Genre icon Dario Argento premieres his newest giallo Dark Glasses, Brea Grant brings her Blumhouse-backed Torn Hearts, and indie-favourites-turned-Marvel-mainstays Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson return with their latest DIY blast of sci-fi Something In The Dirt.
Elsewhere in the programme are Sundance standout Piggy from Spanish writer-director Carlota Pereda, Bill Skarsgaard-starrer Barbarian, and Final Cut,...
- 7/14/2022
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Vinicius Coelho in The Eyes Below
When I interviewed Alexis Bruchon last year about his début feature, The Woman With Leopard Shoes, a black and white thriller set almost entirely in one room which made quite a splash at Glasgow Frightfest, he told me that he planned to follow up with a similarly pared down project in a different genre. That film, The Eyes Below, is now finished and screening at Fantaspoa in Brazil, so the French filmmaker and I got back in touch to talk about it.
He hand his team had been hoping to go to Fantaspoa, he tells me, but due to Covid, the war in Ukraine and so on, it was just too expensive for them to fly there. They’re still excited that the film made the selection, and Alexis tells me that they have more festival screenings already scheduled for later this year, which they’re looking forward to.
When I interviewed Alexis Bruchon last year about his début feature, The Woman With Leopard Shoes, a black and white thriller set almost entirely in one room which made quite a splash at Glasgow Frightfest, he told me that he planned to follow up with a similarly pared down project in a different genre. That film, The Eyes Below, is now finished and screening at Fantaspoa in Brazil, so the French filmmaker and I got back in touch to talk about it.
He hand his team had been hoping to go to Fantaspoa, he tells me, but due to Covid, the war in Ukraine and so on, it was just too expensive for them to fly there. They’re still excited that the film made the selection, and Alexis tells me that they have more festival screenings already scheduled for later this year, which they’re looking forward to.
- 4/26/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In 2021, young French director Alexis Bruchon burst onto the scene with The Woman With Leopard Shoes, one of the most distinctive films of the year. Unashamedly arty, visually striking and thrilling to watch, it wasn’t a perfect film – few débuts are – but it made a big impression on those lucky enough to catch it. Now Bruchon is back to prove that he’s more than a one hit wonder, with another film set in a single room which exploits every opportunity for tension.
There’s a very simple terror underscoring this film, and it’s one which many viewers will be personally familiar with, if only from childhood. Eugene (Vinicius Coelho) is a lawyer whose emails suggest is on the verge of confirming major corporate wrongdoing. He plans to deliver a crucial letter the following morning, but it’s night-time now, and he needs to get some sleep. The curtains are closed.
There’s a very simple terror underscoring this film, and it’s one which many viewers will be personally familiar with, if only from childhood. Eugene (Vinicius Coelho) is a lawyer whose emails suggest is on the verge of confirming major corporate wrongdoing. He plans to deliver a crucial letter the following morning, but it’s night-time now, and he needs to get some sleep. The curtains are closed.
- 4/21/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Centenary screening of Nosferatu, world premiere of stoner comedy The Smoke Master bookend event.
Brazil’s Fantaspoa genre festival, billed as the largest of its kind in Latin America, is returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and has unveiled its first wave of titles.
This year’s International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre will take place in five cinemas around the southern city from April 15-May 1. It is bookended by a special opening night centenary screening of F. W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Carlos Ferreira and Brazilian...
Brazil’s Fantaspoa genre festival, billed as the largest of its kind in Latin America, is returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and has unveiled its first wave of titles.
This year’s International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre will take place in five cinemas around the southern city from April 15-May 1. It is bookended by a special opening night centenary screening of F. W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Carlos Ferreira and Brazilian...
- 3/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Woman with Leopard Shoes is, at least on the surface, as basic as cloak-and-dagger thrillers get. One actor, one location, and one central mystery. A burglar, trapped in a back room, searching for a box he’s been hired to lift. Outside, a party’s in full-swing, and he’s one nosy neighbour away from being found-out.
The most we see, beyond the frenzied face of rugged leading man Paul Bruchon, is shoes. A great deal of them, with some exquisite below-the-knee acting to boot. And yet it takes mere minutes for the film, and its multi-hyphenate creator Alexis Bruchon, to well-and-truly hook you, and more-so than any other micro-budget effort in recent memory.
The magic is in the craft; despite resting on a seriously shoestring set-up, The Woman with Leopard Shoes is brought to life with such playful gusto, it’s impossible not to get caught up in its whirlwind.
The most we see, beyond the frenzied face of rugged leading man Paul Bruchon, is shoes. A great deal of them, with some exquisite below-the-knee acting to boot. And yet it takes mere minutes for the film, and its multi-hyphenate creator Alexis Bruchon, to well-and-truly hook you, and more-so than any other micro-budget effort in recent memory.
The magic is in the craft; despite resting on a seriously shoestring set-up, The Woman with Leopard Shoes is brought to life with such playful gusto, it’s impossible not to get caught up in its whirlwind.
- 3/5/2021
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Paul Bruchon | Written and Directed Alexis Bruchon
Written, directed, produced, shot and edited by French filmmaker Alexis Bruchon (who also composed the music), The Woman With Leopard Shoes marks an impressive debut feature and also serves as an object lesson on what can be achieved with zero budget and a single location.
Jokingly described by Bruchon as “the story of a man walking around a desk”, the film stars Paul Bruchon (the director’s brother) as an unnamed burglar, who’s engaged by a mysterious woman to steal a box from a large house, no questions asked. All goes well, until the thief is about to leave the house, at which point dozens of party guests arrive, forcing him to hide in the study. There’s just one problem: he discovers a dead body in the cupboard, at which point he starts to wonder if maybe, just maybe, he might have been set up.
Written, directed, produced, shot and edited by French filmmaker Alexis Bruchon (who also composed the music), The Woman With Leopard Shoes marks an impressive debut feature and also serves as an object lesson on what can be achieved with zero budget and a single location.
Jokingly described by Bruchon as “the story of a man walking around a desk”, the film stars Paul Bruchon (the director’s brother) as an unnamed burglar, who’s engaged by a mysterious woman to steal a box from a large house, no questions asked. All goes well, until the thief is about to leave the house, at which point dozens of party guests arrive, forcing him to hide in the study. There’s just one problem: he discovers a dead body in the cupboard, at which point he starts to wonder if maybe, just maybe, he might have been set up.
- 3/5/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
How much can you tell about a person from their clothes? What about their shoes? There's an early sequence in Alexis Bruchon's taut little thriller in which we watch people dressing but never see their faces. We take in indicators of personal style, gender, class and social role. We get just a hint of how unreliable all this information might be.
At the centre of the film is a burglar. He's commissioned by a woman he never sees to do a very particular job: to break into a big house and steal a hidden box. At first everything goes to plan. The house is quiet, the entry process simple, the box not hard to find. But before our erstwhile hero is able to slip away, disaster strikes: a large group of people arrives at the house and...
At the centre of the film is a burglar. He's commissioned by a woman he never sees to do a very particular job: to break into a big house and steal a hidden box. At first everything goes to plan. The house is quiet, the entry process simple, the box not hard to find. But before our erstwhile hero is able to slip away, disaster strikes: a large group of people arrives at the house and...
- 3/5/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Woman With Leopard Shoes Photo: courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival
Could you make a movie all by yourself? The Woman With Leopard Shoes (La Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard), which is screening as part of the Frightfest selection at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival isn’t quite a solo effort, but it’s amazing how much its creator, Alexis Bruchon, has put into it – as writer, producer, director, cinematographer, editor and composer – especially as it’s his first film and he was learning on the job
It stars his brother, Paul Bruchon, as a young man who agrees to steal a box from a big house for an unseen woman who offers him a lot of money. The plan goes pear shaped when a lot of people arrive at the house for a party, leaving our hero trapped in a small study where he spends much of his time hiding under a desk,...
Could you make a movie all by yourself? The Woman With Leopard Shoes (La Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard), which is screening as part of the Frightfest selection at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival isn’t quite a solo effort, but it’s amazing how much its creator, Alexis Bruchon, has put into it – as writer, producer, director, cinematographer, editor and composer – especially as it’s his first film and he was learning on the job
It stars his brother, Paul Bruchon, as a young man who agrees to steal a box from a big house for an unseen woman who offers him a lot of money. The plan goes pear shaped when a lot of people arrive at the house for a party, leaving our hero trapped in a small study where he spends much of his time hiding under a desk,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ahead of FrightFest’s UK special screening of The Woman With Leopard Shoes at the Glasgow Film Festival, director Alexis Bruchon talks about his love of Noir, casting his brother and directing in his underwear…
Your background is in illustration and graphic design. Was making a movie the next logical step as an artist?
From a very young age, I wanted to make a movie (as a teenager I did make a slasher called Ice Crime a true masterpiece!) – but drawing is direct, cost nothing and allows you to produce any images you want. So, I started with two unpublished graphic novels. The good thing with comics is that I realised you can tell a story with very few elements… and no money!
So, when I started on The Woman With Leopard Shoes, drawing was highly important in the making of the film because I storyboarded everything with a lot of indications like light,...
Your background is in illustration and graphic design. Was making a movie the next logical step as an artist?
From a very young age, I wanted to make a movie (as a teenager I did make a slasher called Ice Crime a true masterpiece!) – but drawing is direct, cost nothing and allows you to produce any images you want. So, I started with two unpublished graphic novels. The good thing with comics is that I realised you can tell a story with very few elements… and no money!
So, when I started on The Woman With Leopard Shoes, drawing was highly important in the making of the film because I storyboarded everything with a lot of indications like light,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The organisers of Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow have announced that, despite continuing Covid-19 restrictions, the festival will return Digitally this year to present a virtual six-pack of tasty titles; an extravaganza of the dark arts that will leave you stirred, shaken and shocked.
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
- 1/18/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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