‘La Nuit ravagée’ – Jacques Audiard Directing Adaptation of Acclaimed Horror Novel for Netflix
Netflix has tapped Jacques Audiard to direct a feature film adaptation of the acclaimed horror novel ‘La Nuit ravagée’.
Netflix has tapped Jacques Audiard to direct a French-language feature film adaptation of the acclaimed horror novel La Nuit ravagée, reports Variety.
Penned by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, La Nuit ravagée is “set in Saint-Auch, a fictional suburb on the outskirts of Toulouse in Southern France, in the early 1990s. It follows a group of teenagers drawn to an abandoned house that exerts a strange power on them. After one of their friends dies under disturbing circumstances, they decide to enter the house, not suspecting it’s alive with something supernatural. Once they enter it, it begins to feed on their private fears, desires and traumas, turning their psychological vulnerabilities into something monstrous and inescapable.”
Published by Gallimard last year, the outlet notes that the novel has been described as a loving homage to 1980s-90s horror films and the works of Stephen King.
The film will mark the first venture into horror for the filmmaker behind films like Emilia Pérez and A Prophet.
