French horror movie The Swarm (La Nuée) is hitting Netflix on August 6, 2021.
As the first feature film from director Just Philippot, the film traveled the festival circuit. There were screenings at Cannes Critics Week in 2020, and The Swarm won the special jury prize and best actress award at the 2020 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival. A new trailer dropped on the Netflix youtube channel, and I never knew locusts could be so damn scary.
The Swarm follows Virginie (Suliane Brahim), a mother living with her two children Laura (Marie Narbonne) and Gaston (Raphael Romand), on a crumbling farm where she breeds edible Locusts to save her home. Her life flips upside down when she finds out her insect pets have a taste for blood, and now she has to keep the swarm contained before the bugs break out and terrorize other humans.
Now, if you know anything about French horror, this isn’t going to be some typical bug movie, and the trailer pretty much solidifies this tone. This will be a slow burn and have deeper, darker themes beyond blood-sucking Locust and will probably end badly for everyone involved.
Watch the trailer and let us know what you think.
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DISCUSSION
Thank you...The trailer is interesting and characteristically, not at all illuminating. My Italian Aunt used to take me with her to see foreign films when I was young which taught me a lot about how much bubbled under the surface in European films in particular, nothing was spelled out or obvious, and actions are of the moment and not indicative of a character’s true self or motives, nor is there always a drawn line of Good v Bad. So much subtext. And the endings? Usually clear as mud, just like real life! A trailer for a domestic version of this film would show half the plot and two spoilers.