There are twelve stills from Kim Chapiron's Sheitan on the website of international sales agent Wild Bunch Sales Limited. There are twenty stills from the movie on Cinempire.com. As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on December 22nd of last year, there's a downloadable trailer for it on AlloCine.fr.
The screenplay for Sheitan was written by Kim Chapiron and Christian Chapiron. The movie stars Vincent Cassel as Joseph, Olivier Barthélémy as Bart, Roxane Mesquida as Eve, Nicolas Le Phat Tan as Thaï, Leïla Bekhti as Yasmine, Ladj Ly as Ladj, Julie-Marie Parmentier as Jeanne, Gérald Thomassin as Maurice, Quentin Lasbazeilles as Gilou, Guillaume Bacquet as Bebert, Alexandre Borrel as Jérôme, and Tarubi as Moustène. Its cast also includes François Levantal, Monica Bellucci, Mokobé, Mouloud, and Oxmo Puccino.
Mars Distribution is scheduled to release Sheitan theatrically in France on February 1st.
Here's a brief description of Sheitan from the Fangoria article "Eating Out of Cannes": "[SHEITAN], starring Vincent Cassel as a satanic shepherd, resembles a big-budget ANTROPOPHAGUS. The main highlight was a pregnant girl staggering down a corridor, urinating and bleeding, and then depositing her stillborn baby on the floor, with Cassel pouncing to eat it."
Below is a synopsis for Sheitan from the Wild Bunch website.
Christmas Eve. In a Paris nightclub, Bart, Ladj and Thai meet two gorgeous girls, Eve and Yasmin. Drunk and out of control, Bart provokes a ruck. Pissed off, the barman smashes a bottle over his skull and kicks him out into the street. All three guys lust blatantly after Eve, who invites them and Yasmin to spend the weekend at her parents' place in the country.
They arrive at dawn, and are met by Joseph and Marie, the caretakers. Marie, hostile and heavily pregnant, is busy making a doll for Christmas. Without paying her too much attention, the gang visits a nearby hot spring, where Bart picks a fight with a group of local kids. A violent confrontation ensues. One of the bumpkins tears a clump of hair from Bart's head, before Joseph intervenes.
Clearly afraid of the sinister caretaker, the locals depart, cursing as they go.
Back at the house, our heroes eat a Christmas dinner of roasted goat. As night falls, their drunken discussion turns to sex, to evil, to the Devil. Joseph, increasingly unsettling, tells the horrible story of a peasant possessed by Satan and forced to impregnate his own sister. Their cursed child was born on Christmas Day. Our lads are too busy chatting up the girls to notice the diabolical trap closing slowly around them, while Marie finishes her strange doll with scraps of Bart's clothing and the tuft of his hair. Then all Hell breaks loose...
Combining anarchic knockabout comedy with nerve-shredding suspense, jet-black humour and gut-wrenching bloody horror, SHEITAN is the first feature from Kim Chapiron, a member of Kourtrajmé, a loose collective of vibrant, cutting-edge young French film makers championed by Vincent Cassel, who produces and stars as the demonic Joseph.
Sheitan trailer (downloadable 5.8 MB MOV file)
Sheitan official website
Sheitan official blog
Wild Bunch: Sheitan stills gallery (10 JPEGs - enable cookies & double-click on link)
Wild Bunch: Sheitan still #11 (620 KB JPEG - not in the gallery; variation of still #06)
Wild Bunch: Sheitan still #12 (388 KB JPEG - not in the gallery; variation of still #07)
Cinempire.com: Sheitan stills gallery (19 JPEGs)
Cinempire.com: Sheitan still #04 (76 KB JPEG - not in the gallery; variation of still #14)
