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Margot is a young doctor beginning her career as an intern at a notoriously demanding French emergency room. The head of her department, Hélène, is a revered hard-ass who pushes her staff to their limits and expects the best in return. After a bumpy first day and a series of mysterious cases involving young people with bizarre symptoms, Margot wakes one morning to find her body and bedsheets covered in blood. Her symptoms appear to worsen with stress, and as the pressures of the job mount, strange lesions begin spreading across her torso.
Joining a new wave of French female filmmakers embracing body horror, Marion Le Corroller turns the anxieties of the modern workplace into something viscerally physical. With its gloriously gruesome skin-tearing effects, Species takes aim at a work culture that pushes young people to the breaking point in pursuit of success. Burnout becomes mutation and, in the grand tradition of Cronenberg’s New Flesh, the body rebels against what the mind has learned to endure.
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Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali, Stefan Crepon, Sonia Faïdi
France/Belgium
2026
In French with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Carole Lambert
Screenwriter
Marion Le Corroller, Thomas Pujol
Cinematography
Guillaume Schiffman
Editor
Jérôme Eltabet
Production Design
Anne-Sophie Delseries
Original Music
ROB
Marion Le Corroller
After studying finance and international business, Marion Le Corroller began her career in film production and worked on the development of several feature films. She wrote and directed several short films, including Dieu n’est plus médecin, which was selected for numerous international film festivals as well as the César Awards in 2021. In 2024, she shot Melted Doll, a body horror short film supported by the CNC and France 2. At the same time, she developed her first feature film, Species, with Windy Production, which will receive a French theatrical release in 2026.
Filmography: Build 2 Kill (2023)
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