{"id":18378,"date":"2016-05-07T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=18378"},"modified":"2016-05-09T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T06:56:59","slug":"la-tour-du-diable-de-jim-oconnolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2016\/05\/07\/la-tour-du-diable-de-jim-oconnolly\/","title":{"rendered":"La Tour du diable de Jim O\u2019Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/em>L\u2019\u00e9diteur de DVD Artus ressort bient\u00f4t des oubliettes un petit film d\u2019horreur anglais, La Tour du diable<\/em> (Tower of Evil<\/em>, 1972) de Jim O\u2019Connolly. Oubli relatif puisque La Tour du diable<\/em> n\u2019est pas tout \u00e0 fait une bande anonyme et poss\u00e8de d\u00e9j\u00e0 une certaine r\u00e9putation, due \u00e0 ses qualit\u00e9s particuli\u00e8res. Certes il s\u2019agit d\u2019un pur produit d\u2019exploitation dont la recette (nudit\u00e9 plus gore) \u00e9tait particuli\u00e8rement appr\u00e9ci\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque, mais La Tour du diable<\/em> est tout sauf un film banal, et se distingue par ses exc\u00e8s, sa folie mais aussi quelques trouvailles fort originales.<\/p>\n

La premi\u00e8re est de bouleverser la lin\u00e9arit\u00e9 du r\u00e9cit, avec une sc\u00e8ne d\u2019ouverture qui montre la d\u00e9couverte par des marins de cadavres atrocement mutil\u00e9s sur une sinistre petite \u00eele en Ecosse. La tour du titre est en fait un phare abandonn\u00e9. Ainsi l\u2019histoire surgit-elle du cerveau de la seule survivante du massacre, retrouv\u00e9e en \u00e9tat de choc et soumise \u00e0 des exp\u00e9riences m\u00e9dicales. Il est \u00e9tonnant de voir dans un film la mort de presque tous les personnages programm\u00e9e et anticip\u00e9e de cette mani\u00e8re, et d\u2019assister \u00e0 un r\u00e9cit proprement hallucinatoire. Le film invente une forme \u00e9trange de \u00ab\u00a0trip\u00a0\u00bb horrifique, une greffe monstrueuse entre le Grand-Guignol et le psych\u00e9d\u00e9lisme. A mi-parcours du film, une fois le t\u00e9moignage de la rescap\u00e9e enregistr\u00e9, une seconde exp\u00e9dition est organis\u00e9e sur l\u2019\u00eele myst\u00e9rieuse. La Tour du diable<\/em> s\u2019articule alors \u00e0 la fois autour de l\u2019id\u00e9e de \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u00a0\u00bb et celle de la r\u00e9p\u00e9tition. Le r\u00e9cit de la jeune femme a relat\u00e9 des faits de sorcellerie, d\u2019envo\u00fbtement et de rituels macabres. La d\u00e9couverte d\u2019une lance ph\u00e9nicienne tr\u00e8s ancienne trouv\u00e9e plant\u00e9e dans le corps d\u2019un des adolescents met les scientifiques sur la piste d\u2019un culte d\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 la divinit\u00e9 Baal, et d\u2019un tr\u00e9sor.<\/p>\n

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La Tour du diable<\/em>, digne repr\u00e9sentant de la \u00ab\u00a0british horror\u00a0\u00bb des ann\u00e9es 70, succ\u00e9dant \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode faste des productions Hammer et d\u2019un fantastique plus traditionnel, se caract\u00e9rise aussi par sa violence et sa crudit\u00e9, avec beaucoup plus de sexe, de sang, de corps d\u00e9membr\u00e9s et empal\u00e9s que d\u2019habitude. On a d\u00e9couvert La Tour du <\/em>diable dans la mythique salle sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e du Brady \u2013 comme La Griffe de Frankenstein<\/em> et autres joyeuset\u00e9s britanniques du m\u00eame tonneau \u2013 et on ne s\u2019est jamais lass\u00e9 de le revoir \u00e0 intervalles r\u00e9guliers sur tous les supports possibles. Contrairement \u00e0 d\u2019autres films fauch\u00e9s La Tour du diable<\/em> peut se targuer d\u2019une direction artistique et d\u2019une photographie soign\u00e9es, qui nimbent le film dans une atmosph\u00e8re brumeuse et macabre, travers\u00e9e par des images d\u00e9rangeantes. C\u2019est davantage un film de producteur que de r\u00e9alisateur. Richard Gordon a beaucoup \u0153uvr\u00e9 dans le cr\u00e9neau du cin\u00e9ma de genre anglais, des ann\u00e9es 50 jusqu\u2019au fameux Inseminoid <\/em>en 1981. <\/em>Jim O\u2019Connolly a connu une carri\u00e8re plus courte et discr\u00e8te dans le cin\u00e9ma bis, signant n\u00e9anmoins en 1969 un chouette film d\u2019aventures produit par Ray Harryhausen et Charles H. Schneer, La Vall\u00e9e de Gwangi<\/em>, le seul western avec un tyrannosaure.<\/p>\n

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