If you go down to the woods in the wrong sort of film, you can be sure of something familiar to anyone who’s seen Deliverance, Straw Dogs and other such tales of rustic ructions. Fabrice Du Welz’s over-egged feature debut has Laurent Lucas as Marc Stevens, a club singer whose van breaks down in Belgium’s backwoods. He’s shown to an inn run by Bartel (Jackie Berroyer), a convivial-seeming widower who is a little too excited by Marc’s arrival.
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