A 100% thrill label.

Launched Wednesday by producers and distributors Vincent Maraval (Wild Bunch) and Thierry Lounas (Capricci), the production company Wild West, a new genre cinema label, wishes to promote the rise in France of fantastic and horror films and series. or even science fiction.

Based in Bayonne and Bordeaux, the company will offer each year "a dozen feature film and series projects" for "financing, remake, or concept of series", he added.

All will have "been the subject of a one-year development within the So Film Residence (writing)", a creative laboratory based in Bordeaux, initiated in 2016 by Thierry Lounas, director of the monthly

So Film

and the production company Capricci.

"About ten film and series projects already scripted"

The first project to have emerged from this residency,

La Nurée

 - about a farmer trying her hand at breeding edible grasshoppers which prove to be greedy for blood - is released in theaters on June 16. Wild West unveiled Wednesday "a dozen projects of films and series already scripted". Among them,

Les mains d'Orlac

, a fantastic thriller written by Dominique Baumard, with Melvil Poupaud. The actor plays there a virtuoso pianist who lost his hands in a car accident and finds himself seized with murderous impulses after a revolutionary transplant.

Also on the rails, the

Cygnes

series

, written by Dominique Baumard and Mathieu Mégemont and directed by the latter, "a supernatural thriller with psychedelic flights", with actor Karim Leklou (

Hippocrate

).

Or

Incarnation

, a film by Mael Le Mée with India Hair (

Mandibles

,

Poissonsexe

), about a young girl in artificial flesh.

"A French genre cinema"

The launch of Wild West is accompanied by that of Bordeaux digital, a “special effects studio which will be closely linked” to its productions.

"Wild West offers a French genre cinema" telling "the world of today" and leaving "the codes of the genre", assures Thierry Lounas, quoted in the press release.

"It is also a great laboratory for a new generation of filmmakers who are no longer necessarily screenwriters of their films," he adds.

French genre cinema has experienced a revival since the release in 2016 of

Grave

 by Julia Ducournau, also director of

Titanium

, selected in competition at Cannes this year.

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