Who says new year, says new things to discover at the cinema, but also on the VOD side. Fans of thrills, stay warm and at home for a viewing of these 3 films that will chill your blood and make you thrill.
At the start of 2024, VOD platforms have made the good resolution to continue to offer us a first-rate selection, capable of satisfying all audiences. From Apple TV to CANALVOD, including FILMO, Google TV, Orange, Prime Video, Rakuten TV, VIVA by VIDEOFUTUR, UniversCiné or even ArteVOD and LaCinetek which unveil an editorialized approach, find the best of cinema live from home. Focus on 3 films that will make you thrill, vibrate and shiver!
EQUALIZER 3
An 80s series that became a film in 2014, Equalizer is now one of the most cult action franchises on the big screen. Carried by Denzel Washington in the title role of former Marine and DIA agent Robert McCall, the latter revealed its 3rd opus at the start of the 2023 school year.splendid and enjoyable” according to an AlloCiné viewer, in which our hero invites us to his new home, in Italy.
Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to make peace with his past demons and finds strange comfort in defending the oppressed. While he has found his haven of peace in the south of Italy, he discovers that his friends are under the control of the local mafia. When events take a deadly turn, McCall knows what he must do: protect his loved ones by taking on the mafia directly.
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER
A pillar of culture since Bram Stoker’s novel published in 1897, the story of Dracula has attracted the attention of many filmmakers, such as Francis Ford Coppola who brought him to the big screen in the eponymous film. with Gary Oldman, in 1992. In 2023, it was the Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal who tackled this myth, and more particularly the chapter Logbook of the Demeter from Varna to Whitby of the original book, in The Last journey of Demeter.
The film relates the tragic fate of a merchant ship, the Demeter, chartered to transport a private cargo, consisting of 50 wooden crates, from the Carpathians to London. Overwhelmed by strange events, the crew of the Demeter attempts to fend off a merciless presence that attacks them every night. When the ship finally reaches the English coast, it is nothing more than a dilapidated and charred wreck, without a single survivor on board…
THE NUN: THE CURSE OF SAINT LUCIA
“Bloodier than the 1st”: this is how some spectators from the AlloCiné community describe The Nun: The Curse of Saint Lucia! Direct sequel to the film directed by Corin Hardy in 2018, this time by Michael Chaves (The Curse of the White Lady), the horror film shot in the south of France constitutes the ninth part of the Conjuring cinematographic universe.
In France, in 1956, a priest was murdered in a boarding school. After his death, things happen that can no longer be explained rationally. Sister Irene is once again confronted with demonic power. She quickly realizes that it is the demon Valak who has returned and is preparing for murderous misdeeds.