original French title A L'OMBRE DE LA CANAILLE BLEUE [In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal]
also known as IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUE ROUGE

director and writer: Pierre Clémenti
starring Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Achmi Gachem · Pierre Clémenti · Simon Reggiani · Nadine Clémenti

Necrocity is a city of nightly terrors, a place where the authorities reinforce a state of mayhem to impose their cruel laws and brutality. While the underground counterculture is only obsessed with carnal pleasures (i.e. drinking, drugs and sex), news beaks of a huge heroin shipment gone missing. This is indicative of a new horrific crimewave about to explode.

Pierre Clémenti's chaotic film is the bastard child of Jene Genet and William S. Burroughs. It is a gleefully grotesque 'Freak-Out,' colored in nauseating filters and bursting with double exposures. While often incoherent, the plot unravels as a drug-infused nightmare rather than a standard narrative. It is a sensory, cerebral experience that took Pierre Clémenti seven years to complete. He was a French filmmaker/actor best known for his work in the classic BELLE DE JOUR. Genre fans will know him best as the co-star to Nico in the underground film INNER SCAR. Mr Clémenti died from liver cancer in December of 1999.

A French film with optional English subtitles; widescreen, (82 minutes) in DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine;
extras include various theatrical trailers

    

Male and Female Nudity/Graphic Violence/Drugs/Gore
suggested for Adult Audiences