Rosiers Sauvages

When I was about eight years old, my brother and I watched this French horror film in the middle of the night. This movie would haunt me for years in various ways. Firstly, it would haunt my young brain because I thought it was very scary.  In a French prison, four convicts find a journal behind a brick in the wall of their cell. The mysterious journal is filled with spells and rituals of dark magic. Strange things start happening when they start reading it out loud. They start thinking it might become their ticket to freedom since none of them have any prospects of getting out anytime soon. Unfortunately, the price of freedom turns out to be steep. Secondly, I desperately wanted to rewatch this movie to check if it really was that scary (I had also forgotten the ending), but finding it was hell. My 8-yearold self didn't think of writing down the name of the movie. Luckily, after a lot of research I managed to find its name: Maléfique  (English: Evil ). Carrère, a CEO convicte...