Climax

2018 • 1h 37m •

Drama Horror Music

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 7.0/10

2,404 reviews

Your Rating

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

"Birth and death are extraordinary experiences. Life is a fleeting pleasure."

Top Billed Cast

Sofia Boutella

Selva

Romain Guillermic

David

Souheila Yacoub

Lou

Kiddy Smile

Daddy

Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull

Emmanuelle

Giselle Palmer

Gazelle

Taylor Kastle

Taylor

Thea Carla Schøtt

Psyche

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

F furious_iz Verified TMDB Critic

2019-04-30

A french dance troupe, staying for a long weekend in some sort of school building, decide to party after rehearsal, while a wintry blizzard rages outside. Someone spikes the punch, and all hell breaks loose.

The dance scenes are engaging, the visuals hypnotic, the performances are somehow real and completely over the top, and the chaos and carnage intense and memorable. Long, drawn out tracking shots, one of which lasts for 40+ minutes, follow the dancers as the drugs take hold and any hint of humanity falls by the wayside.

Awful, intense, nightmarish film that I would never recommend t...

S Stephen Campbell Verified TMDB Critic

2019-05-29

**_A disgusting, morally reprehensible work of insane genius_**

>_LSD or mainly alcohol can bring you back to a more reptilian way of thinking, you are not human anymore. It is all about survival, about reproducing the species, about sex and domination. The moment we start losing control of the logical brain we go to a psychotic way of thinking._

- Gaspar Noé; "Gaspar Noé on why his orgiastic Cannes sensation Climax should be shown to kids: 'It's very educational'" (Kaleem Aftab); _The Telegraph_ (May 15, 2018)

_Climax_, the latest film from Argentinian-French provocateur Gaspar No�...