La Machine

La Machine (1994)

This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a secret machine, known only to his mistress Marianne, in which he hopes to exchange minds between humans. He simultaneously wants to help the mentally ill recover, and he wants to experience their madness. He chooses the psychotic killer, Zyto, a man who stabbed at least three women, for his experiment. The initial experiment is successful and the two exchange minds. But trouble ensues when Zyto refuses to reverse the switch. There is little Marc can do when Zyto takes over Marc's life, and more ominously his wife and child whom are unknowingly in mortal danger. Marc, encased in Zyto's body, is returned to the asylum. Will Marc's wife recognize the danger? Will Zyto kill again?

Data lansării
1994-05-28
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (20)
Durată
1 h 36 min
Genuri
Horror, Thriller, SF
Regizor
François Dupeyron

Distribuție

Curiozități

The Machine is a 1994 French science fiction horror thriller film directed by François Dupeyron and based on René Belletto's 1990 novel. Gérard Depardieu and Didier Bourdon star respectively as a psychiatrist and as a serial killer, whose minds swap bodies after they are connected to the titular machine.

Production

Director François Dupeyron, who had never made a genre film before, began working on the project due to his enjoyment of René Belletto's thriller novel. Belletto, who initially felt that a "Hollywood" director would have been more suitable to adapt his book, was convinced by Dupeyron's enthusiasm for the source material.

Dupeyron considered the film a challenge, as science fiction and horror were never the most common genres in French cinema. He managed to secure funding thanks to the involvement of his friend Gérard Depardieu who had starred in his first feature film, A Strange Place to Meet (1988). Didier Bourdon, known in France as a comic actor and a member of the comedy trio Les Inconnus, was cast against type in his dramatic dual role.

A French-German coproduction, The Machine was filmed both in France and in Germany, with interiors being shot at Babelsberg Studio.

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