Arthur, Curse: This Besson horror film is inspired by covert activity that is sometimes banned

Did you grow up with Arthur and the Invisible Trilogy and are you a fan? Get ready for a shiver in front of Arthur, hell!

In this horror movie, which is banned for children under 12, Alex is a fan of the Arthur and the Minimoys movies. On his birthday, best friends surprise him by taking him to an abandoned house where the film was shot. None of them suspect they are heading for a Machiavellian and deadly trap. What was once a childhood dream will soon turn into a real nightmare …

Feature film author and producer Luke Besson, feature film directed by Barthelemy Grossman, to whom we owe 13 m2 (2007), Les Lascars Season 2 in 2014, and 2 episodes of the No Limit series.

This movie, shot Found the footnote Like the Blair Witch project, the young actors are Vadim Agidi, Lola Andreon, Mathieu Berger, Talia Besson, Marceau Ebersolt, Ian Mendy, Michael Halim and Jade Pedri.

While writing this gruesome version, Luke Besson realized that there was a video of many urbeks (urban search engines) where fans were going to discover the shooting locations of Arthur and Minimoy. So he started his movie script from this phenomenon.

House: The character itself

For more than 15 years, Arthur and Minimo’s house have indeed been visited and photographed from all angles. He himself became a character.

If in the 2006 film by Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow, Archibald’s house must be in Connecticut, then the house is actually in France, in the small Norman town of La Trinité-des-Laitiers. The region where Luc Besson also lives and where he has shot most of his works (Jeanne d’Arc, Adele Blanc-Sec …).

Revenge of Arthur and Maltazard for the second part of the trilogy, production designer Hughes Tisandie and his team expanded the existing section by 40,000 m2 and created a full village next to the house: a church, shops, a supermarket, a garage, a hardware store, a police station, a movie theater and …

The house is now abandoned and regularly visited by urban researchers.

Urbex: What is it?

Urbex, which means urban sightseeing, is the practice of visiting abandoned places by man. The horror film The Deep House, which came out last summer, also showed 2 Urbeks fans who were going to see the sunken house.

This covert activity is prohibited in some places because it is done without authorization, especially since it often involves finding hard-to-reach and often dangerous places.

Visiting abandoned places is not the latest phenomenon, but this practice gained momentum in the 2000s with the ability to capture oneself and upload videos to the Internet.

The number of urban explorers continues to grow and Urbex has even become a business since travel agencies offer guided tours to deserted areas.

The house of Archibald, Arthur’s grandfather in the Luke Besson saga, quickly attracted Urbeks moviegoers. Many videos depicting the house elsewhere are available on the internet.

We find a ruined house and an almost empty interior. Mouse holes (for miniature use), Bogo Matasalai items, and Arthur’s grandmother (Mia Farrow) Chevrolet frame still exist. The garden trees are still covered with fabric flowers.

Some of the videos (as presented above) show the backstage of the house: secret passages, fake fireplaces, kits, cast chairs and even fake fittings (using English sockets instead of American sockets) …

There are so many objects left over 12 years after Arthur 3’s War of the Two Worlds (one of Urbex’s rules is to leave everything in place) and which can be reused. Arthur, curse. A film that will really make Urbex fans want to stop their search …