VINYAN

Year: 2008
USA: Sony Pictures
UK: Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Rufus Sewel, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah, Amporn Pankrato, Josse De Pauw Omm, Joey Boy, Teerawat Mulwilai, Saichia Wongwirot
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Country: France / Belgium / UK / Australia
USA & UK: 96 mins
USA Rated: R for some disturbing violent content, sexuality/nudity and language
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong sex
USA DVD Release Date: 7 April 2009
UK Release Date: 2 October 2009
UK DVD Release Date: 5 October 2009

Synopsis

When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. It becomes 'Vinyan'.

Unable to accept the loss of their son in the 2005 tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) and Paul Belhmer (Rufus Sewell) have remained in Phuket (Thailand) after the catastrophe. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has convinced herself that their son was kidnapped by traffickers in the ensuing chaos and that her son is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot bring himself to shatter his wife's last hope.

Bribing the sinister Mr Gao to take them by boat to the pirate-infested jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the traumatized couple embark on a quest that will plunge them through paranoia and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien universe, a supernatural realm where the dead are never truly dead, and where nightmares, obsession and horrifying reality converge...