🏆 1 win & 9 nominations total
The premise
Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.
Horror Vault's take
A young film student's chance stop at a seemingly ordinary family home turns into a nightmare when he finds himself trapped by a calculating, self-appointed arbiter of morality. His captor, a chess-obsessed zealot, operates by his own warped code of justice — and has devised a singular, chilling way to decide his prisoner's fate. What unfolds is a brutal battle of wills inside the suffocating walls of the Beaulieu household. This Quebec-Canadian thriller keeps the tension screwed tight as survival hinges on intellect as much as endurance.
Content: Graphic Violence, Torture, Physical Abuse, Psychological Torment
Cast
Marc-André Grondin
Yannick Bérubé
Normand D'Amour
Jacques Beaulieu
Sonia Vachon
Maude Beaulieu
Mylène St-Sauveur
Michelle Beaulieu
Élodie Larivière
Anne Beaulieu
Catherine Bérubé
Josée
Normand Chouinard
Jérome Bérubé
Louise Bombardier
Francine Bérubé
Pierre-Luc Lafontaine
Simon
René-Daniel Dubois
Jean Guy Ruel
Jacques Allard
Lecteur de nouvelles
Normand Poirier
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