Director: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo
In a French mountain village where fog seems to hold old grudges, two officers from rival forces have to set aside their distrust to chase something the locals refuse to name out loud.
What is The Soul Eater about?
The Soul Eater builds its dread around a small alpine village gripped by two overlapping horrors: children vanishing without a trace, and a wave of brutal killings that leaves investigators struggling to find a pattern. As the disappearances mount, a folk legend tied to sulphur and old superstition resurfaces among the villagers, treated half as myth and half as warning by people who have lived there for generations. Commander Guardiano and Captain De Rolan, representing different branches of law enforcement, are pushed into an uneasy partnership neither wanted, each bringing a different method and a different level of patience for the town's evasive answers. Their inquiry moves between forensic groundwork and the murkier terrain of local memory, folklore, and buried secrets that the community would rather leave undisturbed. What starts as a missing-persons case tightens into something closer to a reckoning with the village's past, where the line between superstition and evidence keeps blurring the longer the two officers stay.
Cast & crew
Virginie Ledoyen and Sandrine Bonnaire lead the cast as the two officers forced into cooperation, with Paul Hamy, Malik Zidi, Emmanuel Lanzi, Christophe Favre, Jérémy Margallé, and Francis Renaud filling out the village's residents and investigators. The film is directed by the duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, established names in French genre horror known for atmosphere-heavy, slow-building dread.
Context & significance
Produced as a Belgian-French co-production, the 2024 film draws on rural folk-horror traditions where an isolated community's old legends turn out to hold more truth than outsiders expect. The pairing of two investigators from different institutions gives the mystery-thriller structure of the film a procedural backbone, while the mountain setting and sulphur-tinged legend keep it rooted in a specifically French take on horror.
Where & how to watch
The Soul Eater streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing available for this title; the page and browsing experience are presented in a Farsi-friendly interface for Persian-speaking viewers. Watching requires only logging into a free K-Time account, while the film's page can be read without any sign-up.