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Who Killed Bambi (2004)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:9

Rotten:12

Average Rating:5.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Nov 12, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: Using ambient sounds, white-outs, and dizzyingly abstract photography, WHO KILLED BAMBI? instills fear into its viewers with its disorienting atmospheres. Before any perturbing action takes place,... Using ambient sounds, white-outs, and dizzyingly abstract photography, WHO KILLED BAMBI? instills fear into its viewers with its disorienting atmospheres. Before any perturbing action takes place, there is an air of something essentially wrong, and that unexplainable feeling is downright creepy. Isabelle (Sophie Quinton), a rosy-cheeked nursing student, stares out into the fluorescent hallways of the hospital where she works with the wide-eyed innocence of a deer caught in the headlights. Appropriately, when she suddenly faints at the feet of the tall, dark, and handsome surgeon Dr. Philippe (Laurent Lucas), he nicknames her Bambi, saying she cannot stand on her own two legs. It is instantly obvious that there's something sinister about Dr. Philippe, so the answer to the title's question is not much of a mystery. Yet as Isabelle's fainting episodes become more frequent, and her suspicions about Dr. Philippe grow more paranoid, the tension only mounts. When several lovely young women (the hospital is teaming with them) disappear from their hospital beds at night, Isabelle's fears appear to be justified. An excellent chiller that will captivate audiences with its entrancing moods, WHO KILLED BAMBI? is a wonderfully effective addition to the thriller genre. [More]

Starring: Sophie Quinton, Laurent Lucas, Catherine Jacob, Yasmine Belmadi

Starring: Sophie Quinton, Laurent Lucas, Catherine Jacob, Yasmine Belmadi, Michele Moretti, Valerie Donzelli

Director: Gilles Marchand

Director: Gilles Marchand
Screenwriter: Gilles Marchand, Vincent Dietschy
Producer: Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Kept me squirming in my seat for its entire running time.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
11/19/04
Jurgen Fauth
Jurgen Fauth
About.com
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Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
07/05/05
BBC

This film is more successful in mood and setting (white hallways with stylized lighting and shadows gives a disorientating sense of dread and tension) than in the conventional screenplay.

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11/11/04
Ed Scheid
Ed Scheid
Boxoffice Magazine
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07/05/05
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

The forced parallel with the Disney classic proves silly and pretentious, but the dull characters and lethal plot contrivances are what really do Bambi in.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
11/19/04
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10/06/04
Greg Muskewitz
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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine

Who Killed Bambi? is fun to watch, and newcomer Quinton has big, beautiful eyes, but the movie’s contrived plot, forced conclusion and sentimental denouement rob it of real suspense and meaning.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/08/04
Rex Roberts
Rex Roberts
Film Journal International

Perhaps not since 1978's Coma has a hospital stay been scarier.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
11/11/04
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

Effectively creates a menacing atmosphere within the gleaming white halls of the hospital in which it is set, but its story line and characterizations lack the sufficient originality to lift the film above its many better predecessors.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
10/05/04
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
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12/06/05
Independent

you eventually get that it's supposed to be suspenseful, but it's ... near impossible to actually feel it.

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
12/01/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

A long and uneventful snooze.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
11/12/04
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Marchand capably builds suspense, thanks to a twisty script and nervy performances by Lucas and Quinton.

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11/12/04
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

So skillful at sustaining a chilly antiseptic atmosphere in which death stalks every gleaming corridor that it comes as a sharp disappointment to find its hygienic imagery wasted on a clunking cat-and-mouse game.

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11/11/04
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Its lack of sense is exceeded only by the absence of chills.

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01/25/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
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The melodrama acts as an anaesthetic, as it's hard to stay awake while it operates merely as a gruesome style over substance film.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/28/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Who Killed Bambi? does for doctors what Psycho did for showers.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
12/03/04
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Competent but ultimately disappointing.

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01/14/05
Moira MacDonald
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
 
 
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