French-Belgian Body Horror ‘Else’ Heads to Fandor This Summer

Cineverse has picked up North American rights to French-Belgian body horror movie Else, and the festival favorite is set to arrive on streaming this summer.

Else will be released on Fandor and all digital platforms on July 8, 2025.

The feature debut by French director Thibault Emin follows “a romance blossoming between an introvert and a confident woman. However, their relationship is threatened when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings, trapping the couple in a shapeshifting nightmare. Would you merge for love?”

The acquisition arrives on the heels of a successful festival run, including stops at TIFF and Fantastic Fest. Joe Lipsett wrote in his 4-skull TIFF review, “Writer/director Thibault Eminuses body horror in a completely different way in Else, a French body horror that concerns a pandemic virus that causes humans to “merge” to their surroundings. The body horror is often horrifying, but when filtered through the romanticism of Else’s central love story, the visuals lend the film a grandeur that is intimate, poetic, and tragic.”

As for the pandemic-induced body horror, Lipsett added, “The body horror elements are also extremely memorable thanks to VFX supervisor Arnaud Leviez and FX makeup artists Florence Thonet and Anne Van Nyen. The evolving nature of the disease is revealed slowly: first bodies are seen on the news, melted into rock like camouflage, then an unhoused man outside Anx’s building fuses with the sidewalk from the waist down.”

The poetic, unique body horror film was penned by Emin, Alice Butaud, and Emma Sandona.Matthieu Sampeurand Edith Proust star.

Else joins Fandor’s ever-growing catalog of standout cinema, including the successful and inventive indie comedy Hundreds of Beavers, which follows the story of a drunken applejack salesman who must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. The deals for the films were negotiated by Executive Director, Acquisitions, Brandon Hill on behalf of Cineverse with Gregory Chambet of WTFilms.

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