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The Devils
Drama, History, Horror
In 1634 France, charismatic Father Urbain Grandier becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to provocative historical dramas that fuse grotesque imagery, political outrage, sexual obsession, and psychological horror.
- Tone
- bleak, surreal, satirical
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- religious power, sexual repression, institutional corruption, mass hysteria, exploitation
- Setting
- early modern Europe, claustrophobic convent and authoritarian civic institutions