Fury of the Demon (2015)

	Also Known As: La Rage du Démon
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Fabien Delage
	Actors: Alexandre Aja, Christophe Gans, Jean-Jacques Bernard
	Country: F
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 30.01.2016, Cinema PARADISO, GIFFF2016
Synopsis: In 2012 the projection of a film thought lost and entitled La Rage du Démon creates mass hysteria in a French cinema. Investigation about the origins of this film.
Review: An interesting concept, that however turns out very quickly to be a mockumentary, i.e. a fake. This categorisation wouldn't normally disturb me much (on the contrary I love This is Spinal Tap or What we do in the Shadows for example), but in that case the problem is that the trick is revealed too quickly and almost only because of some bad actors that don't play naturally enough the interviewees. Apart from this major flow, the documentary manages to nicely display in just one hour an investigation about a supposedly cursed and lost film, looking for its true author and the possible explanation for the curse, and taking the leisure to spend 15 minutes praising the work of Georges Méliès. That's already something.
Rating: 4 /10