Canada - Film student gets into a little accident on his bicycle avoiding a black cat. He goes to a nearby home to ask for assistance. When the resident tells him to wait outside while he calls our man a cab HE DOESN'T. I can't stress this enough. He does not wait outside as requested. Instead he barges right into someone's home and privacy. On top of that when he hears someone upstairs, what does he do but invite himself further into the residence. Once he sees blood all over this guy upstairs it's all over for our hero. Now the guy who lives here and has perpetrated what all has happened herein has no choice but to keep our hero under wraps. The story is about the struggle between the two, and other characters, i.e., the mama of the house and the two daughters who live therein to thicken the plot. I waited and searched for this movie for EVER. I am happy to say it was well worth it. This is such an individual flick, similarities to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Frailty notwithstanding.

Hi!

I know I'm really late late with this one but I dugg it up from the past (2009) and wished to tell you about it. Here we have a film called 5150 Rue des Ormes (5150 Elm's Street/Way), it's a great (one of the best ones and very few ones that were actually made/and that were, actually, great, too) a Canadian QC french Quebecer thriller/suspense with strong horror elements (such as when later on in the film they play Cadaver Chess, literally the young protagonist plays a macabre chess game in the antagonist's father's lair of doom/the basement garage with actual dead cadaver bodies representing each human-sized chess piece on the huge makeshift floor-sized chessboard. We understand all the cadavers are the father's former kills/random people passing by on the Des Ormes street in front of the house that he lured in his cult house/his basement pit of hell) The story is straightforward (spoilers ahead) and revolves around a young man Yannick Bérubé (actor Éric Grondin who excels and is truly an incredible young actor, poignant and very deep/serious/natural in his acting), he is a university student that has a sort of university-essay on photography, and thus he must take pictures as a work-course assignment.

He goes on a bike ride, and a certain point he turns on the street Des Ormes, takes some shots, and goes up in front of the 5150 house... and accident happens and he falls off his bicycle rendering it totalled and useless; he is stranded there and a bit hurt and goes for help at the first house in sight : 5150 des Ormes House... the Wrong house... he should never gone into... An old man (Mr. Beaulieu, Normand d'Amour/Incredible Actor here just as good as Mr. Grondin) a deranged crazed man who very pious and religious/almost a zealot and is house is a religious Cult; and he's the Cult leader) he emerges from the house and sees what happens/the commotion, young Mr. Bérubé asks help from old Mr. Beaulieu whoms decides 'ok' to let him in and to tend to his wound/call for help/ambulance/police... as Mr. Bérubé gets in the house, he knows something is 'weird' and 'off'... this family is many weirdos who though nice for accepting him and helping him - will Capture him/Abduct him, Mr. Beaulieu kidnaps him and in a struggle, totting a 12-gauge shotgun he forces him into a vacant room on the last upper floor... it's a very closed-in room, no windows, evertthing is closed-in... Mr. Bérubé screams in fear and in help! Bangs on the walls... he is captured... days will go will go on like that... he will be fed sporadically and Mr. Bérubé and him will developp a sort love/hate relationship (being that the food he gets is his only way to survive and 'sort of' forgive Mr. Beaulieu for abducting him/sequestering him and torturing him... at certain points in the film Mr. Bérubé tries to escape and fails each time, as Mr. Beaulieu is just too strong, authoritarian... and puts him back in the room/cage-in... trapped forever) Mr. Bérubé feels he will die there... and slowly perishes and goes into comatose/psychosis... it becomes very bloody, a nightmare.) The other actors are great too such as the Mother (just as crazy as Mr. Beaulieu) and the Daughter (Sonia Vachon).. both completely indoctrinated and brain-washed, they defend the Father (Mr. Beaulieu), and punish Mr. Bérubé any chance they get. But a certain point, the Mother gets really overwhelmed and starts to blame the Father, and will feel sad for Mr. Bérubé getting tortured for nothing, she will try to help him escape sort of... Mr. Bérubé is forced to play chess games with Mr. Beaulieu, Mr. Beaulieu makes a deal with him : 'if you beat me at a chess game - you will be freed'... and so it becomes a big mind-game between them, back and fort they play chess games and Mr. Bérubé fails each time as Mr. Beaulieu is just so good that each chess game lost enrages Mr. Bérubé - but... with time and losses, he becomes better and Mr. Beaulieu is feeling that he - Might - lose. To a certain point, where it's the last showdown... everyone is dead except Mr. Beaulieu and Mr. Bérubé... Mr. Beaulieu forces Mr. Bérubé totally naked to go down the garage lair to see the cadavers and play a big cadaver chess game - one last one and then kill Mr. Bérubé or himself or both... Mr. Bérubé finally wins the chess game and what ensues is truly scary, he finally evades Mr. Beaulieu's clutch...

In the film, Mr. Beaulieu says a very freaky line : "Les Non-Justes doivent mourir" (Non-Justs must die), basically he is inferring that any person he lures, catches, abducts, trapps-in and then kills... is a 'Non-Juste' someone Un-Righteous deserving to die, someone that is a Sinner (going against God as such an Unrigteous Sinner who must pay for sinning and being Unjust/Unlawful of the Laws of God).. being a Hyper-Religious Pious person he sees Mr. Bérubé like some kid student who deserves to die for the simple fact he is not religious/pious and thus, a sinner/heathen/agnostic/atheist...As such he kills in cold blood a family that goes to and calls them 'Non-Justes...'... is daughter is with him and partakes as complicit murderer...

Well safe to say this horror/thriller/suspense at the best quality and can give you nightmares! Especially you won't look at chess board the same way anymore!

Playing 'meat chess' is quite disconcerting specially if you know that you lose the chess match - you die...A Great Canadian QC horror film, one of the Best ones in the last 10 years with solid production budget, if only there were more of them made.

A give a solid 8 on 10!

A good horror thriller with great performances by Normand d'Amour and Marc-André Grondin. I enjoyed the experience very much but the ending could have been so much better... Probably one of the worst use of a fade to black I've seen ever...