François Gaillard

Five youngsters who just wanted to spend a nice weekend amongst friends in a manor will find a far less peaceful place than they expected when faced with a family curse and a sadistic ruthless killer. Blinded by their never-ending quest for carnal pleasures they will fail to perceive the flood of blunt violence about to engulf them

An undercover reporter is commissioned to write a story about a series of gruesome murders. His investigation leads him to a secret society of wealthy businessman who hunt humans for money. Caught in a spiral of violence, he is forced to participate in the game until he discovers that he has become the hunted.

4 shorts from French Directors, working in the tradition of Grand Guignol, set in Tokyo. Stories about a man repeating a bloody day running from the Yakuza; a woman's violent encounter with her mirror image; a woman and her lasergun fighting of a shadowy demon; and a man being cursed by the famous Hachi-statue to become a werewolf pining for a prostitue.

Angela, an elegant young woman, spends his nights fantasizing about her neighbor, the sensual Anna Maria, a fortune teller to bewitching charm. One evening, Angela finds Anna Maria's body savagely mutilated. In shock, she accidentally breaks the crystal ball of the latter. A crystal that has the real ability to read the future. But will she use her new gift to escape the violent death which has been promised?

Archangel may be as feminine and attractive as any stripper, but she is tough enough to pass the Boss's security, and confront him as an angel from hell.

After a seemingly drunken evening, Charlotte wakes up in the middle of the night on her bed. While she has no memory of the past few hours, she hears her co-tenant being violently attacked in her room.

In this killer tale of horror, a rip-roaring teen party turns into a nightmare when a mysterious masked figure murders the guests one by one and then challenges the lone survivor to a duel... for his soul.

In the 80s and 90s, a generation of budding filmmakers nurtured by exploitation cinema took advantage of the democratization of consumer filming equipment to embark on the self-production of fantastic and horror films. François Gaillard is one of them.

The Witching Hour is a fast, furious pumped up adrenaline ride through hell. A group of gangsters battle their way through zombies, crazies, demons, psychos and some pretty full on witches to get back a stolen gem. Featuring extreme fight scenes, brutal violence and some sick humour. The Witching Hour is pure raw energy injected straight into your eyes! Twice!!

A photographer takes a picture of a murder.