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‘Emilia Pérez’ Director Jacques Audiard Reunites With Netflix for Horror Film (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix has optioned Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s horror novel ‘La Nuit ravagée’ and hired Jacques Audiard to develop a French-language film adaptation. The project reunites Audiard with Netflix after the awards success of ‘Emilia Pérez’, while marking his first move into horror and potentially bringing his socially grounded style to the genre.
Set in a fictional Toulouse suburb in the early 1990s, the story follows teenagers who enter an abandoned house after a friend dies and find that it exploits their fears, desires and traumas. Published by Gallimard in 2025, the novel has been praised for combining 1980s-90s horror influences, particularly Stephen King, with themes including racism, homophobia, domestic violence and adolescent anxiety; Netflix did not comment.
In short
- Netflix is developing Audiard’s first horror film.
- It adapts Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s ‘La Nuit ravagée’.
- The French-language story centres on a supernatural house.
Explained simply
Jacques Audiard, an acclaimed French director, is developing his first horror film for Netflix, based on Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's novel 'La Nuit ravagée'. This reunites Audiard with the streaming platform following the awards success of 'Emilia Pérez'.
Del Amo's novel, published in 2025, is set in a fictional suburb of Toulouse in the early 1990s and follows teenagers who enter an abandoned house after a friend's death. Once inside, the house begins to exploit their fears, desires and personal traumas.
The novel incorporates 1980s and 1990s horror influences, particularly Stephen King's style, and explores serious themes including racism, homophobia, domestic violence and adolescent anxiety. Audiard is a director whose previous films have addressed significant social and political questions.