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Synopsis: Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Director(s): Daniel Grou
Production: Sundance Selects
  9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
NOT RATED
Year:
2010
105 min
347 Views


l didn't say that.

You aIso think I owe her a debt.

You have to come home, Bruno.

We'll help each other.

I hoped you'd see.

This is Detective Sergeant Mercure,

Dr Hamel.

If you turn yourseIf in now,

the mitigating circumstances...

...l'll turn myself in.

Next Friday, my daughter's birthday.

l'll kill him and then turn myself in.

We'll find you before.

I don't think so.

You're not a vioIent man, Dr Hamel.

Not deep down. I know it.

What else do you know?

- What you're feeling.

I'd be surprised.

My wife was shot six months ago

in a grocery...

...by a young thief, for 58 bucks.

Didn't you want to kill him?

Yes.

But l knew it was pointless.

Where is he?

ln prison, where he belongs.

And that satisfies you?

At night, lying in your big empty bed,

does it console you to know

your wife's killer is in jail?

Does it make your life more bearable?

Bye, Sylvie.

The trace failed.

Wait till I get out of here.

Wait till I get out of here, asshoIe.

F*** you.

F*** off.

day three

PIeau, it's Mercure.

My ring rolled under the door.

Can you get it?

Why don't you do it?

It's in the bedroom.

Without my ring, I can't face it.

I put the board back like it was.

Thanks.

Herve, you shouId...

A Drummondville eIectronics salesman

recognized Hamel.

The doctor bought $4000 worth

of stuff, incIuding a Iaptop.

A Iaptop?

Ok.

I didn't know why he wanted

to get in, I swear.

It onIy took a minute.

He went in, came out...

I saw Bruno once at the hospitaI.

I didn't expect him

to come to work so soon.

Hamel paid me to crack the van door.

There's not a Iock I can't open.

SurgicaI instruments,

antibiotics,

even an artificiaI respirator.

They all went missing Iast week.

After he paid me,

he sat in the parking Iot...

He's such a caIm man, so gentIe.

I must say,

I find it hard to believe.

You're not gonna charge me.

I Iearned my Iesson.

Besides, I was cooI,

I toId you everything I know.

It's your tum to be cooI.

SeriousIy, I have to get to school.

The food's so I Iast Ionger?

I'm telling the truth.

Leave me aIone.

Want me to confess, is that it?

I did it.

I did it, man. I confess.

But I'm sorry.

Sh*t, I'm so sorry.

So sorry.

I don't know why I did it.

I'm sorry, man.

Ow.

I'm sorry.

Ok?

I confessed, sh*t.

Isn't that what you wanted?

I'll say it again to the judge.

I'll be behind bars for years,

you can be sure.

I confessed, sh*t.

Stop.

Stop.

I'll go to jail for life.

What more do you want?

I'll do anything you want.

Anything.

AIright, to summarize.

Hamel wants to torture the guy

undisturbed. Where does he go?

A cottage? He doesn't have one.

A moteI room?

We'll keep searching,

but in a radius of 100 km,

there's a shitIoad of 'em.

A moteI's not the pIace to torture

a guy, too many peopIe around.

So back to a cottage.

Did he break into a friend's pIace?

We checked all the cottages

of his colleagues, friends, relatives.

AIright.

Maybe he rented one?

That's risky too.

Even if he paid cash,

the owner might remember him.

That leaves the abandoned cabin

in the woods.

Did he find it by accident?

Did he have it built?

In the woods... Where?

Christ, we got nothing.

Does it really matter?

After all, Lemaire's a child rapist.

Why shouId we bust our ass...

...to save a guy who murders little girIs?

It's not Lemaire I want to save.

day four

There's no point torturing me.

It won't bring back your little girI.

After you finish me off,

what'll you do?

Only three days left

till the deadline runs out...

...and still no sign of Bruno Hamel.

How is the doctor's wife,

Dr Sylvie Berube,

coping with this difficult situation?

Jean Fafard spoke with her.

lt's hard. l have nothing to say.

You don't approve of his actions?

l think...

...l think that his grief has driven him mad.

I'm sorry.

Mrs Berube?

ln the Middle East...

What made you tell the press

I've gone crazy?

I'm not crazy,

I've never been so Iucid.

Come back. Stop all this.

How can you ask that?

How can you ask that?

If you Ioved Jasmine,

you'd know this is for her.

You're doing it out of guilt.

You finally said it.

You think it's my fault, right?

It's you who...

- Who what?

You could've gone with her.

But you wanted to f***.

While you were having your orgasm,

your little girI was being raped.

If you'd answered the phone or

listened to the message, maybe...

Maybe. Screw your maybes.

ShouId we just hide in a comer and cry?

I'm doing something, Sylvie.

Argh.

I'm doing something, Sylvie.

They're really going at it.

He was calling from St Julie.

Trace the call. Now.

He's Iosing it.

- Anyone wouId in his shoes.

Fine, but we have to capitalize on it.

Concentrate on cottage

rentaI agencies around St Julie.

Search every home recentIy occupied,

one by one.

Every day of my life...

...has been marked by vioIence.

And more of it...

...isn't going to help me.

When I was a kid

I was abused and beaten.

I know what it is to suffer.

I need help, man.

Help, not more vioIence.

What's that?

What is it?

Curare?

It's to...

Curare.:
paralyses the motor system

but not consciousness.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

I can't take it.

You're worse than me.

You're worse than me.

day five

I figured out what you did.

F*** yourfood.

I'm not gonna sh*t out of

my stomach again.

So?

What do you got pIanned now?

How you gonna amuse yourseIf?

Go on,

I can't wait to see.

Worst thing is, you don't even

seem to be enjoying yourseIf.

Finished aIready?

Running Iow on motivation?

I'll help you, ok?

Your daughter wasn't the onIy one.

Those little sIuts...

I killed three others too.

Marion HouIe,

Laurie Thibodeau...

...and CharIotte Masson.

I f***ed 'em...

...and then I killed 'em,

all three.

But your little girl,

Jasmine...

She was the best.

She was the prettiest.

ReaI pretty.

F***ing tease.

The way she was dressed.

She deserved to get her c*nt reamed.

While I was f***ing her,

she kept calling you.

She said,

'Daddy. Daddy.'

Where were you?

Where were you?

Kill me.

Kill me.

Herve? It's Hamel on two.

He wants to talk to you.

Yes, Dr Hamel?

You didn't answer last time.

What was the question?

The fact that your wife's murderer

is in prison,

does that make life more bearable?

No.

Too bad we didn't talk before.

It's too bad, yeah.

I don't know why I called.

I shouIdn't have.

That's not true.

You know why.

l can help you.

You can't even help yourseIf.

You're drowning, Dr Hamel.

And you're starting to realize it.

Yeah.

Let me sink.

The trace worked.

We'll be there in 2 minutes.

BoIduc and his men are aIready in the area.

How precise is it?

Within 50 meters. They onIy need

to search a few houses.

MontreaI.

No.

We've got the address.

BoIduc's on his way.

Marion HouIe.

Charlotte Masson.

Laurie Thibodeau.

Yes.

Yes, Bruno Hamel.

Check the names, you'll see.

Police.

Nobody here.

A remote-controlled computer?.

What do you mean?

Where's he calling from?

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Patrick Senécal

Patrick Senécal is a French-Canadian writer and scenarist known for his horror oriented drama novels. His work is often compared to Stephen King. He got a lot of his work adapted to cinema. Senécal is also well known in Québec for his unique dark genre. more…

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