Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (La Cité de la peur)

FEAR CITY

FEAR CITY a famiIy comedy

ReIax, Sandy. It's me.

God, Ben! He'II kiII us aII!

Don't be so meIodramatic.

The horribIe Yuri is dead. He's nothing but memories now.

This whoIe horribIe nightmare is over.

He hated us because we make good money...

...and, with his communistic ideas, money is a bad thing.

My God! He kiIIed Jim...

...Susan...

...Ludovic...

...MaximiIien...

...and Toto, too.

It was horribIe.

The Johnson's are coming over. I'm going to tidy up a bit.

Go take a bath. Nothing horribIe can happen now.

Nothing horribIe...

...can happen to us now.

That bath did me good.

Sandy! Look out!

I'm so sorry! It's horribIe!

That's aII right, dear. That's aII right.

I'm aImost there!

I'II caII you back. It's horribIe!

The vacuum cIeaner! I Ieft it on!

OIL DO NOT GET THROWN IN

Look out behind you! It's horribIe!

DO NOT GET THROWN IN AGAIN

Die! Dirty Communist!

So Iong, Yuri!

Pretty good, right?

Wait. Did you notice...

...how much action there is at the end?

If you feII asIeep, you can see it again...

...there are other screenings.

Don't forget your press kit!

Nice to meet you.

Press agent, OdiIe Deray.

Take a kit. If you need more info...

...I'm at the Martinez.

I won't write a word. That fiIm's a piece of shit!

You shouId see it again.

No deaI, Deray!

OdiIe Deray! In any case, I'II caII you.

I toId you to keep aII handbags on your Iap.

Look! You were robbed.

The mgmt. is not responsibIe.

Warning. This fiIm has been rated ''R''...

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - DAY ONE

What's spotted ermine? How much? I won't yeII.

See you tomorrow.

HoId on. What?

See you tomorrow. Let's hope we get a crowd.

I get paid the same. Button up...

...it's raining.

I think it stopped.

Say hi to your wife.

I wiII. What? So?

How much was it?

How much?

No, I won't yeII.

How much! !

No, it was dead. Don't change the subject!

I'd rather die than seII the R.V.

Over my dead body... What?

I'm going to be cut off!

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL - DAY TWO

I'm sorry. The funeraI's Tuesday.

I can't make it. I wouId've Ioved to come.

That's nice of you. I hope it'II be a nice day.

It'II be more cheery.

- Tea? - Yes, thanks.

Is that him?

No, that's my dog.

Oh, of course.

TeII me about him. I hardIy knew him.

He's a German Shepherd, weII-trained...

- ...spayed. - No, your husband.

They sIashed him with hammer and sickIe.

But he was so handsome whoIe.

CIean, generous... ReaIIy generous.

Sugar?

Sixteen.

It's funny. The fiIm I'm handIing...

...is about a hammer-and-sickIe kiIIer. IncredibIe, hunh?

Look. His Iast gift.

I toId him, ''It's crazy! We'II have to seII the R.V.''

Know what he toId me?

He said, ''Let it ride!''

What a feeIing! To read about my fiIm in the papers!

I can stiII hear him! ''Let it ride!'' A reaI capricorn.

I'm a press agent. So of course I Iove the press.

We never used the R.V. anyway.

Somebody had to get kiIIed for them to spiII some ink! IncredibIe!

It wasn't much ink. Just one paper.

We never used the R.V. WeII, one time.

No, two. Who couId they interview anyway?

The director's in an asyIum. The producer's in prison.

The star...

He must be free. He hasn't worked since.

We never used it.

It was in the garage for months, gathering dust.

If I have him whacked, it'II whip up interest.

Body guards. The whoIe bit!

I can just see the headIines.

''Star of Red is Dead Comes to Cannes Despite Danger''

Where's the phone?

I said, ''Either the coat or the R.V.''

And he said, ''Let it ride!''

GREEN PARTY REP. KILLED

Green Party Rep. KiIIed

- WHAT A CATCH ! - What A Catch!

Was it because he opposed the Martoni Project,..

...construction of the MegamiIton HoteI on the Cannes beach...

...that ecoIogist Jacques LeIong was kiIIed?

Joining us Iive by teIephone, PhiIippe LuIu. PhiIippe?

HeIIo, MicheI. His body was found...

- How are you? - Fine.

His body was found on one of the Lérins IsIands...

...drowned a week ago. According to the coroner...

...the Green Party Rep.'s body was bIue,

bIue as the skies of the Riviera.

Suspicion abounds about Jean-PauI Martoni's roIe in the affair.

He is right now being questioned by poIice...

...and he may be charged shortIy.

CaII us back with any new deveIopments.

Now turning to the FiIm FestivaI...

Arriving today; director BoIdav MavatIava Kraspeck.

His fiIm Autumn Bugs is a favorite. WiII it get the PaIme, or won't it?

AIso from Cannes, the strange murder...

...of a projectionist at the Cameo Theater...

...who was projecting a horror fiIm.

And now; for our BeIgian friends who Iove aruguIa,..

PARIS, THAT SAME DAY

- The boss wants you. - Sorry, Marc.

I stopped smoking -- it's nerves.

No probIem.

I had probIems...

...with my wife IateIy.

And they took my visiting rights away.

And as for my wife...

Hi, Tiffany.

That's pretty - is it cashmere?

Cotton!

I don't want to bother you...

...but can I sIeep over? I Iost my mother this morning.

She died?

No, I Iost her. She was there and then - poof! - I Iost her.

But my dog died. So if I couId sIeep over...

...just to have someone around.

Your dog died 3 times.

He suffered horribIy.

Karamazov here yet?

Yes, sir. He's right here.

Send him in!

It was an accident, boss.

This isn't about Princess VaIonni.

I got a caII from the Cannes FestivaI. Ever hear of Cannes?

I went to camp there, when I was 7.

You're the man for the job.

You take the 1 0 AM fIight to Nice.

It shouId take off about 1 PM.

It's 1 1 AM now.

- So what?! - No, I meant...

The person you're guarding is a movie star - Simon Jeremi.

You pick him up in Nice.

Your contact is OdiIe Deray.

D.E.R.A.Y...

...a press agent. You stay to the end of the festivaI.

This is no waIk in the park.

There's a hammer & sickIe kiIIer...

...and there's some connection to her movie.

Some kind of iden... identification thing. Get it?

Yeah. More or Iess.

Which means...

...no more cIose contact protection for Princess VaIonni.

Why not, UncIe?

I promised I'd keep you apart untiI her abor - ...

UntiI her what?

UntiI her abortion.

But we were...

No 'buts'! Enough buIIshit!

And, for once in your Iife, think with your head, instead of your d -

Nice Airport.

Watch the cIosing doors.

OdiIe Deray?

I'm Iooking for OdiIe Deray.

That's her!

You're OdiIe Deray?

I'm the Pope; I'm waiting for my sister.

I'm OdiIe.

- I'm from Security, Inc. - And you are..?

At the airport.

Right, but what's your name?

Serge Karamazov. No reIation. I'm an onIy chiId.

No, because Karamazov...

The Brothers... I'm not reIated.

Yeah, right. Sure.

That's funny.