Arthur: Malediction - Bizarre "Sequel" To Luc Besson's "Arthur & The Invisibles"?

[Bubbles-11]

This apparently came out in France back in June... and somehow it's a horror film??????


Details:

from what I can gleam, I guess Arthur and the Invisibles is very popular in France for some goddamn reason, and some students in Luc Besson’s film school wrote a horror script where a group of teens go to visit the house the movie was shot at, and then shit goes down. apparently this movie has very little connection to the original film apart from the trappings of the premise

Besson (who directed the original) was supposedly very impressed by this script, and not only decided to produce it as a feature film, not only cast his daughter in one of the lead roles, but also took credit for the screenplay over his students.

Luc Besson did not direct Arthur, malédiction (which translates to “Arthur, curse”), that was instead a dude with the last name “Grossman,” which is close enough to Luc Besson

it was shot in secret during lockdown, it came out in France two months ago, and apparently it’s really bad

No US release as of yet..

[Dazza001]

I saw this when it was released earlier in the summer... it's a fairly typical horror where teens run into trouble in and around an old, remote house, but it's given a quick lick of Arthur-themed paint. Kind of strange to turn a spin-off from a trilogy of kids' films into a horror, as it meant they sort of doubled down on freezing out two intended audiences. It passed the time in an undemanding way, and I didn't mind it too much. I see no physical releases have been announced yet.

[unberechenbar]

So this means Luc Besson is back in the movie-making industry?

[Mikezilla3k]

The original film sucked big time.............................so people hating this might mean it's actually good.

And it seems like some people are *****ing about their shitty nostalgia goggles being ruined to the point where even some celebs are whining about it...........

What the hell, I'm in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NX89JTTfbY

[Synchg]

still looks better than half the direct-to-digital low budget crapfest seen on the 'free' section of your preferred digital streaming service. oh vey