Shudder - The Advent Calendar: To be discovered exclusively on Shudder on December 2, 2021

By Mulder, 09 november 2021

Shudder, AMC Networks' horror, thriller and supernatural broadcaster, will present writer/director Patrick Ridremont's French horror film The Advent Calendar exclusively on Tuesday, December 2. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, Shudder's original film offers a highly original horror for the holiday season.

Eva (Eugenie Derouand, Paris Police 1900), a former dancer, is now wheelchair-bound, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie (Honorine Magnier, Demain nous appartient) gives her an old wooden advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes that each window contains a surprise that triggers real-life repercussions. Some of them are good, but most are bad, really bad. Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it means the death and destruction of everyone she cherishes around her.

The Advent Calendar had its world premiere earlier this year at Frightfest in London and was produced by Alain Benguigui, Virginie Ogouz, Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts.

Synopsis:
Eva has been a paraplegic for three years. For her birthday, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But it's not the traditional candy she discovers every day, but more disturbing surprises, sometimes pleasant, often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. This year, Christmas is going to be deadly!

The Advent Calendar
A film written and directed by Patrick Ridremont
Produced by Virginie Ogouz, Alain Benguigui
With Eugénie Derouand, Honorine Magnier, Janis Abrikh, Clément Olivieri
Music by Thomas Couzinier, Frédéric Kooshmanian
Director of photography : Danny Elsen
Editing : Thierry Delvigne
Production: Sombrero Films, Siddhi Films, Frakas Productions, Universal Pictures Video, Alba Films, ZED, RTBF, Voo, Be TV
Distribution : Alba Films (France)
Release date : December 1, 2021 (France), December 2, 2022 (USA)
Running time: 104 minutes