Nathan (Hugo Dillon) and Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) are dead. Nathan’s car hit Daniel’s motorcycle on an icy road and now they’re yelling at one another as two gates appear, a blue and red set. Daniel hears the singing of angels. Nathan, who has recently killed his wife in what he claims is an act of mercy, hears screams.

As Nathan and Daniel enter the red gateway, they finds several souls in the same place as him. And that’s when we realize this is a portmanteau of tales, telling us all about killer child Nina (Manon Maindivide) who works with Tony the Monster (Carl Laforêt) to murder people she doesn’t enjoy and a lawyer who goes by Julia (Ophélia Kolb) who hasn’t paid any attention to her daughter and now tries to keep a relationship after she kills herself. As for what happens to the men we met at the beginning, Norghul (Jean Rouceau) sentences Daniel to 4,000 years of solitude.

Director and writer Quarxx is a visual artist who makes this look gorgeous. As to how much sense it makes and how good of a movie it is, the answer lies in how much story you want versus how much graphic gorgeousness. It’s definitely bold even if you may just want to get back to the story that started this, which is usually not how you want a framing story to work in an anthology film.

The Arrow Video release of this film has interviews with Quarxx and special make-up/FX supervisor Olivier Afonso, an interview conducted with Quarxx while he captures footage of a baby being born, a making of, footage from the premiere, a trailer, a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative, a double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dare Creative and an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel, a director’s statement and director Q&A.

You can order this from MVD.