5150 Elm's Way - Game for your life
| Movie | |
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| German title | 5150 Elm's Way - Game for your life |
| Original title | 5150, rue des Ormes |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eric Tessier |
| script | Patrick Senécal |
| production |
Pierre Even Josée Vallée |
| music | Christian Clermont |
| camera | François Dutil |
| cut | Alain Baril |
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5150 Elm's Way - Play for Your Life is a Canadian horror film by Éric Tessier from 2009. It is a film adaptation of the 1994 novel by Patrick Senécal .
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The film student Yannick Bérubé made a film about his new surroundings after moving. While he is reading a book, a little girl named Anne unexpectedly appears in front of him. A teenager takes the candy from her, whereupon Yannick turns the thief on. The girl's mother thanks her for it.
A little later, Yannick is on his bike in a quiet, contemplative housing estate. At the end of the street he has to brake suddenly because of a black cat and falls. The camera is undamaged, but the bike is no longer roadworthy. He sees a taxi standing in front of a house in the immediate vicinity and asks the taxi driver Jacques Beaulieu, who lives there, for help. Since he isn't driving today, he goes into the house to call another taxi. Yannick wants to wash the blood off his hands and follows him. When he heard cries for help from the first floor, he saw a man bleeding profusely on the floor in an unfurnished room. He panics and tries to flee, but Beaulieu threatens him with a rifle. He disposed of the deceased and locked Yannick in the room, the windows of which were boarded up. Beaulieu's wife Maude is the mother of the little girl Anne whom he helped.
A real nightmare begins for Yannick. Beaulieu seems absolutely crazy, his daughter Michelle is in no way inferior to him in brutality and sadism. After having to eat at the table with the family, he injures Beaulieu with a knife and escapes from a window. However, Michelle brutally beats him outside with a baseball bat. Desperate, he then films himself with his camera and throws the cassette out of the toilet window in the hope that someone will see his cry for help on it. Beaulieu reveals to him that he only kills people who are evil and deserve it, such as a drug dealer. For this task he trains Michelle to be his successor. In addition, Beaulieu is a top-class chess player who has never lost. His wife, also mentally unstable, does not agree with Yannick's imprisonment at all, but is very afraid of her husband. Yannick now has bad hallucinations and is becoming more and more unstable mentally.
Unexpectedly, Beaulieu makes him an offer: If Yannick beats him in chess, he is free. Otherwise it will cost him his life. After initially significant defeats, Yannick is improving day by day. Captivity becomes secondary and he is more and more focused on the game of chess. During another attempt to escape, which again fails, he discovers a large number of preserved corpses in the basement. Beaulieu explains to him that he has been killing people for this unique game of chess for 15 years. On the black side are criminals he killed, on the white side are good people he dug up after death. The only thing missing is the white queen. During the last attempt to escape, he receives help from Maude, who volunteers to surrender to the police. However, Yannick returns to the house with the hint that he still has to win this one chess game. Maude then hangs herself and Beaulieu makes her the missing white queen. With this chess game made of corpses, the two are now playing their last game. When little Anne suddenly bothers him, Beaulieu shoots his own daughter. Because the police arrive a little later, this game cannot be ended.
Four months after his liberation, Yannick sits apathetically in front of a chessboard at home and asks the imaginary Beaulieu to finish the game.
criticism
“Horror thriller with style and ambition, which initially seems to develop a kind of torture horror scenario, but then turns into an original and sometimes veritably weird psycho (chess) duel with the Stockholm syndrome situation in a coherent and exciting way. Some strong images and moments stay in the memory longer, the French-Canadian actors, who are largely unknown in this country, are convincing across the board, and the book by "7 Days" writer Patrick Senecal guarantees surprises beyond common genre clichés. Good thing (not only) for horror fans. "
Web links
- 5150 Elm's Way - Play for your life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 5150 Elm's Way - Play for your life in the online film database
Individual evidence
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