November 10, 2008 "Frontiers" was one of the coolest horror movies of last year and proof perfect that no one is making better fear films than the French these days. Director Xavier Gens is now helming "City of Shadows" for Overlook Entertainment.

Overlook reports:

Paris, 1661: The City of Lights is a maze of streets filled with both dirt and enlightenment, a true paradise for all sorts of thieves and bandits where no one can walk about without risking his wealth and his life with every step.

The latest lieutenant general of the police apponted by Louis XIV, Nicolas De La Reynie, has his hands full with a sordid spree of murders by poison. He probes deeply into the fantastic “Court of Miracles”, a mysterious and unknown city impenetrably buried in the heart of Paris with its own rules and its own king ...


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