With Turbo Kid and Summer of 1984, the trio of François Simard, Anouk and Yoann-Karl Whissell refined the melancholy of the 1980s, transfiguring it into generous, nostalgic but never backward-looking objects. Alberto Marini cut his teeth with Paco Plaza, Jaume Balaguero and the most committed of the young Spanish guard. The directors and the screenwriter weren't necessarily destined to meet, but their meeting gave birth to this contemporary reworking of the slasher, determined to draw its bloody pin from a moribund game. The recipe is as simple as enucleation: don't let up on the inherent nastiness of the genre, right up to the last second, treat your antagonist, torture and bring back the bittersweet fire.