Every torturous taboo imaginable is broken to the point that you realize that Hansel and Gretel got off easy compared to what Alice and Luc suffer through. Echoes of The Night Of The Hunter and Salo are present in the film as the couple go down a river in a boat before being captured by a sadistic man in the woods. This isn't the only cinematic influence that Criminal Lovers borrows from to tell its certified messed-up tale of doomed lovers running from the law. Honestly, the film feels what would happen if you spliced in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre halfway through Badlands. As a result, Criminal Lovers never got proper attention that it deserves in forming French New Extermity's roots. Yet The Blair Witch Project was heavily marketed as a horror film and remains a landmark in the found footage genre while Criminal Lovers stayed mostly in arthouse theaters due to its frank sexuality as well as its refusal to stay within genre conventions. Both were influential in spawning two new modes of storytelling. Both were far cries from what the multiplexes were offering. Both were products of their time and thus reflect their respective society's anxieties.

Both drew heavily from folktales by the Brothers Grimm. Both involved young people getting lost in the woods. Both were postmodern takes on contemporary folklore.

In 1999, two very different horror films were unleashed onto audiences.

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