Synopsis
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
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Cast
- Jean RenoPierre Niemans
- Vincent CasselMax Kerkerian
- Nadia FarèsFanny Ferreira
- Dominique SandaSister Andrée
- Karim BelkhadraCaptain Dahmane
- Jean-Pierre CasselDr. Bernard Chernezé
- Didier FlamandThe Dean
- Philippe NahonHomme à la station service
- François LevantalPathologist
- Laurent LafitteHubert
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
A breathtaking exercise in the macabre, a gruesome thriller with quirky cops and a killer of Lecterian complexity, and even when the movie is perfect nonsense, it's so voluptuous that you're grateful to be watching it anyway. - 75
Boston Globe
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness. - 63
New York Daily News
More amiably mindless summer distraction than just about anything Hollywood has to offer this season. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
For most of its running time, this lunatic euro-thriller is creepy, stylish and occasionally suspenseful. - 60
Village Voice
Never lacks for energy, and the director and his stars stride with focused confidence through the hooey. - 50
New York Post
Two things make this film slightly more interesting than its American B-movie equivalents. There's the artless way it shows the French state exercising its power and the charisma of French stars. - 50
Variety
Adequately entertaining but not particularly memorable. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Never lets up: A door can't shut without sounding like a bomb going off; mutilated bodies show up with clockwork punctuality, gratuitously underscored by a relentlessly overbearing soundtrack.
