Malefique

In Eric Valette's taut tale of cramped terror, blood-soaked suspense, claustrophobic anguish and full-blown fright, four prisoners find a diary of black magic spells offering them freedom. Carrere (Gerald Laroche) has been accused of company fraud and is waiting for his two-timing wife to post nonexistent bail. His cellmates are pre-op muscle transsexual Marcus (Clovis Cornillac), retarded insect-eating Daisy (Dimitri Rataud) and intellectual wife-murderer Lasalle (Phillippe Laudenbrach). When a stone slab loosens next to Carrere's bunk, they unearth a book of weird symbols written by a 1920's convict who used the esoteric incantations to walk through the cell walls. But their great escape leads to further confinement in a hellish limbo where their vanity is tested by an evil presence granting each a solitary wish.