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L’infirmière cannibale

L’infirmière cannibale

L'infirmière cannibale

Lucile Desamory | Belgium | 1999 | 9' |

| IFFR 2014

Minimal horror and slapstick humour are the main ingredients of this ‘film-meal’. A nurse steals and eats up the brains of corpses. Eventually, the hospital’s staff catch her and the cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden.

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