Director: David Moreau
One night, one continuous camera, and a suburb outside Paris that stops feeling safe by the minute: that's the premise of "MadS," a 2024 French horror thriller from director David Moreau shot to look like a single unbroken take.
What is MadS about?
A teenager stops by his dealer's apartment to try a new drug before heading out to a party, and from that first stop the night starts sliding sideways. On the drive home he picks up a woman with a bloodied arm who says almost nothing and behaves like she is barely holding herself together. What follows moves through a handful of different young people's nights — a party, a car ride, a house on the edge of town — as the strange presence the teenager brought home spreads outward, and the film's camera keeps moving without a single visible cut. Rather than explaining what's happening as it happens, the story lets confusion and dread build in real time, closer to a fever dream than a conventional monster story, with the drug the film opens on left deliberately ambiguous as either cause or coincidence.
Cast & crew
Milton Riche anchors the film's opening stretch as the teenager whose ordinary night goes wrong, while Lucille Guillaume and Laurie Pavy pick up the story as it passes to other characters over the course of the night. Yovel Lewkowski, Sasha Rudakova, and Vincent Pasdermadjian round out an ensemble that the film hands the narrative to in turn, matching its structure of following whoever the chaos reaches next.
Context & significance
Director David Moreau built the film around the technical challenge of appearing to unfold in one continuous shot, a choice that forces the horror to build through sustained tension rather than jump-cut scares. The film premiered at genre festivals before wider release and has been discussed largely for that unbroken-camera approach as much as for its story.
Where & how to watch
"MadS" is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles alongside the original French audio, so Persian-speaking viewers can choose how they want to watch it. A K-Time account and login are required to stream any title, and the platform's interface is built around a Farsi-first browsing experience.