Mal%C3%A9fique

Malfique is a 2002 French horror film directed by ric Valette.

The cellmates discover, hidden behind a loose brick of the cellwall, an old handwritten journal which belonged to a prisoner named Danvers in the 1920s who mysteriously disappeared from his cell. The book is filled with incantations and symbols of black magic. Although sceptical, Carrere reads aloud one of the incantations and the prisoners are shocked when a bright, burning symbol briefly materialises on the floor. Carrere, and then Lassalle both study the book and they begin to have disturbing visions. Paquerette wakes up one morning to find that during the night, his fingers have vanished.The cellmates argue over what to do with the book. Paquerette grabs the book and starts to eat its pages only to be overpowered by an unseen force which twists his entire body until his spine and neck snap. The other three prisoners are blamed by the guards for Paquerettes death, condemning them to stay in prison for life. Lasselle believes that the book was defending itself. A new prisoner named Picus arrives, a friendly, eccentric man who always carries a video camera. Later, the others wake up one morning to find that Picus has disappeared, leaving his camera and the journal on the floor. They watch the last piece of footage on the camera in which Picus reads an incantation from the book whereupon a brightly lit doorway appears on the wall through which he walks. They ask the guards about Picus but the latter reply that they do not know who the cellmates are talking about, revealing that Picus was a hallucination concocted by the book, designed to reveal the books true powers. ........

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