France, 1971
90m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 1.85:1
mono, French
A French horror film directed by Jean François Davy.
Plot Summary
A young artist arrives in Paris to escape a failed affair and takes a strange triangular room that she rents from an old woman she meets at the railway station. The room contains a door that she's told not to enter but when curiosity gets the better of her she investigates and finds a strange, featureless black void. Little does she know that she's being targeted by a sinister group of old people who want her youth…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Jean François Davy
© Neyrac Films MCMLXXI [1971]
Visa de contrôle cinématographique no. 38.579
Neyrac Films Paris
Produced by: Guy Neyrac
Written by: Alain Gerber, André Ruellan and Jean François Davy
Based on the Novel by: Kurt Steiner
Director of Photography: Louis Soulanes
Editor: Nicole Gauduchon and Cécile Decugis
Music: Jack Arel
Sound Engineer: Gérard Barra
Costume Designer: Jean Claude Philippe
Art Director: Jean Claude Philippe
Cast
Dominique Erlanger (Wanda Leibowitz)
Odette Duc (Léonie)
Catherine Rich (Mona)
Michel Lemoine (Franck)
Jean Servais (De Gournais)
Pierre Vaneck (Dr Liancourt)
Georgette Anys (Wanda's mother)
Elizabeth Braconnier [real name: Liza Braconnier]
Jean Droze
Arlette Emery
Adrien Forge
Phillippe Gaste
Karine Jeantet
Yvon Lec
Roger Lumont
Claude Melki
Paul Pavel
André Tomasi
Alternative Titles
Threshold of the Void – English language title
References
Books
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.226-28, 230, 334, 336
- French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier p.55
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.428 – credits
