“Undisputed indication of the genre”: this is the best film of Alexander Aya!

French director Alexandre Aja is back with Mother Earth, his tenth feature film currently in theaters.

Directed by Halle Berry, this chilling thriller – not for children under 12 – follows June, a mother who protects her sons Samuel and Nolan by taking them to an isolated house. They hunt and look for something to save in the neighboring forest, which is permanently connected to their house by a rope, which their mother asks them to “never let go”. » Because, if June is to be believed, the old cabin is the only place where the family is safe from the “evil” reigning on earth. But one day, the rope breaks and they have no choice but to engage in a terrifying battle for their own survival…

An opportunity to find out Alexander Aya’s favorite film according to AlloCiné viewers.

During his 25-year career, the filmmaker has specialized in the horror genre, of which he is a particular fan. Shortly after the release of Haute Tension, Alexander Aja was noticed by Hollywood, who asked him to direct Wes Craven’s 70s horror film The Hill Has Eyes. Its version is a success, it is also the top-rated film by AlloCiné viewers. Since then, the director has made a series of Hollywood films.

Released in 2006, The Hill Has Eyes has an average audience rating of 3.4 stars out of 5 for 21,900 ratings and 1,358 reviews.

Not for children under 16 stars Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Ted Levine and Tom Bauer. In this feature film, a family takes a drive to California, but the desert road leads them to their worst nightmare… This ultra remake is a real success and even gets an average press rating of 3.9 stars, quite rare. For a horror movie. Considered to be far superior to its original (which, let’s face it, hasn’t aged very well), Aja’s film goes further in terms of fear mechanisms and character development.

A remake superior to the original

40% of viewers believe that the film is very successful, intense, stressful and higher than the original. LeddyZ writes:This remake of Wes Craven’s (another great genre specialist) film, released in 1977, uses the script of its predecessor, but is clearly superior in terms of production: if the construction of the film is reproduced almost identically, the photography. It turns out to be much more pleasing to the eye, and the actors are very talented. It cleans up the work of Wes Craven and creates a modern soul.

Powerking writes in his turn: “Alexander Aja has achieved a very large horror film, rich in suspense, in daylight. This mentor of French horror cinema literally kills clichés. He perfects his creations using a flawless photographic base. The desert of New Mexico seems impenetrable and endless to us. Also, the script is pure wonder. It appropriates Wes Craven’s original, making it more rootsy and intense. A total immersion in collective panic, where the unity between the characters is quite unstable. Obviously, an unmistakable reference to the genre.”

For Truman, the mountain has eyes”One of the best horror movies out there. Alexander Aja hits hard like he did with Haute Tension. Violent, furious, unhealthy and cruel, it immerses us in the horror of this family lost in the desert. The atmosphere is charming, the cast believable, and above all, the pacing is breathtaking. Some moments are really disturbing and make you uncomfortable (especially the rape scene), and the violence is well balanced. A must-see for any horror fan.”

A boring movie

On the other hand, AMCHI from Club AlloCiné points out that tough scenes sometimes make the film try: “One thing is for sure, this remake is far superior to the original. However, I was a little disappointed. I liked the movie, but not as much as I expected. The level of gore, the atmosphere is trying and shocking, but I get it. For the first half hour, we are really under tension. Then The attack comes, but especially when the father abandons his son and finds himself in this abandoned village, the film takes full swing, with great blood scenes that make us want to jump.”

An atmosphere that also lowers the film’s rating. A visitor wrote in July 2013:I give this film a rather modest rating (2.5), which is nevertheless well above the average for the genre. The problem here is its heavy, heavy and trying atmosphere. The audience is immersed in a world that is as bleak as it gets, maybe even too bleak, to the point of making it hard to defend. The excitement is felt only in the last thirty minutes.”