

A garden party where the guest list is killer. Literally.
A beautiful summer afternoon. An invitation to a birthday party gone wrong. A woman in black. A disturbing nurse. Why these deaths?
Costume
That black dress deserves its own billing
Production
French countryside shot like a perfume commercial from hell

Director
Christian Lavil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of France's late-90s 'cinéma du look' decay into direct-to-video erotic thrillers, bridging high-art pretension with exploitation economics.
Karen Lancaume would later star in the infamous 'Baise-moi' (2000); this was her warm-up for genuinely transgressive cinema. The mantis metaphor? Pure budget necessity—real insects cost nothing.