A Conversation with Filmmaker Éric Falardeau (Thanatomorphose, The Thing From the Lake, Asmodeus)
Kicking off 2025 with the third installment of Unboxing the Underground’s ‘A Conversation With’ series! We dive into a chat with writer-director Éric Falardeau about the production process of his 2012 body horror feature Thanatomorphose, his oeuvre of work as a whole, the film festival circuit, and what it means to create extreme cinema.
Myths and Monsters in the Woods Porn Shorts
« Creative pornography interprets genre cinema, and that includes dark stories of monsters and horror. Cinema has taught us that monsters live in the dark of the woods, and the monsters of this program are awakening our desires. Four scary shorts take us into the forest to get us in the mood for “The Thing From the Lake”.
In this B movie horror porn a scientist is researching strange natural phenomena in a swamp. Her exploratory urge is awakened when she sees a naked man that is seduced by a mysterious woman. What is the secret of the beguiling creature that came from the depth of a lake and seems to breathe through gills? The scientist can‘t help but follow her curiosity – and her lust! »
A Sunday Hike, Saira Barbaric & Alistair Fyrn, US 2017, 13 min, no dialogue
Ichor, X RAZMA, US 2021, 10 min, no dialogue
Possession, altSHIFT, UK / ES / NL 2020, 9 min, engl. OV + engl. UT
La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Mathieu Morel, FR 2021,13 min, franz. OV + engl. UT
The Thing from the Lake, Éric Falardeau, CA 2019, 43 min, engl. OV
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