Fantasmes et fantômes (2017)
Directed by Noël Herpe

Film Synopsis

Here are three stories which reveal what a dangerous place the imagination can be if it is allowed to get so much as a foothold on reality.  In the early years of the twentieth century, an ageing theatrical is holding court in a little provincial café, regaling all who want to hear, as well as those who don't, with lurid accounts of his past stage triumphs.  It is with an ardent relish bordering on fanaticism that he decries the appalling decline of the histrionic art in recent years.  Stage drama is definitely not what it used to be!  The actor's acerbic tirade is silenced when a former acquaintance of his shows up and reveals to all and sundry that he is nothing but a third rate ham.

In the second tale, two women find themselves alone in a remote house in the country.  As night falls, they sense that something is terribly wrong and gradually they allow themselves to be taken over by blind terror.  Little do they suspect that the husband of one of the women has murder on his mind.  He plans to carry out his dreadful scheme with the aid of a new-fangled device called the telephone.  In tale number three, two reporters are in conversation with a psychiatrist who is more than pleased to expatiate on the revolutionary methods he employs in his modern clinic.  The journalists are as yet totally unaware that the lunatics have taken over the asylum...