Room Of Death (melody’s Smile)

Favorably tagged by critics as Europe’s SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, writer-director Alfred Lot’s unsettling crime thriller adapts a Franck Thilliez novel to tell the story of an intrepid single mother/detective (Melanie Laurent) investigating the grisly murder/kidnapping of a blind child. Compounding matters is a hit-and-run accident, a two million euro cache and a second kidnapping of a diabetic girl. Lot’s striking feature directorial debut is a taut and creepy exercise in forensic horror that’s not for the faint of heart or politically correct.