La Cité de la Peur (Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy) is celebrating its 25th anniversary!

Picture of the movie La Cité de la Peur, une Comédie Familiale ( Fear City, a Family-Style Comedy ) © Studiocanal

"So Simon, you're going to have to sell this film for me." They haven't aged one bit, not Odile Deray, publicist of the B-movie Red is Dead, nor unbearable bodyguard Serge Karamazov, simple-minded actor Simon Jérémi, or Police Commissioner Patrick Bialès. 25 years after the release of a social phenomenon that invaded offices and classrooms with its cult retorts in 1994, La Cité de la peur (Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy), the comedy written by Les Nuls, intends to take the Cinéma de la plage for a wild carioca. Shot in Cannes by Alain Berbérian, the film has been restored and we are "hyper happy" about it.

When publicist Odile Deray comes to Cannes to defend the bad horror film Red is Dead, nothing goes as planned. The murder of the projectionist (Tchéky Karyo) is a pretext for a series of killings and events experienced by characters who take things extremely seriously. While the Festival is in full swing, the Police Commissioner investigates.

“I was in charge of the mustard and film festival.”
“Ah! That’s exciting. What was it about?”
“Mustard and cinema.”

La Cité de la peur (Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy) is carried by its powerful starring quartet: Chantal Lauby (Odile Deray), Alain Chabat (Serge Karamazov), Dominique Farrugia (Simon Jérémi) and Gérard Darmon (Patrick Bialès). When Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Dominique Farrugia proposed the script to Alain Berbérian in 1994, they certainly could not have imagined the cinematic tidal wave they had just triggered. Full of references, this zany satire about the world of cinema and the Festival de Cannes will be presented at the beach in their presence in a highly anticipated screening.

“Simon, don’t you have any luggage?”
“Well, no! Nobody told me to come with luggage. Why, should I have brought some?”

Presented by Studiocanal. A restoration by Studiocanal and TF1 Studio . 4K scanning 16bits from the original negative 35mm on Lasergraphics director. The pre-calibration was done in a projection room equipped by a 4k projector 4k Christie Laser by Pascal Bousquet and additional work of filtering, dusting was done to compensate the imperfection due to the age of the film. Optical illusion composited on DI on Flame to remain close to the quality of the original negative. Calibration validated by Laurent Dailland, director of photography. Original digital sound was used without modification. Work of remastering done by VDM Laboratory.