NUITS ROUGES (Church of Film)

The mysterious Man Without a Face plots to steal the hidden treasure of a secretly existing sect of the Order of the Knights Templar in an over-the-top adventure involving lost treasure, murder, underground ceremonies, mad scientists, robots, and a mind-controlled zombie army.

NUITS ROUGES was Surrealist Georges Franju’s final tribute to the silent serials of Louis Feuillade—aggressively and joyfully escalating the absurdity of the bygone fantastique-crime genre, propelling it into a raucous, garish, at times eerie and atmospheric film that somehow blends high camp, anti-fascism, moody dream reality, and winking postmodern détournement! Weird…