Climax (2018)

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Directed by: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Souheila Yacoub (Lou), Sofia Boutella (Selva), Romain Guillermic (David), Thea Carla Schott (Psyché), Sharleen Temple (Ivana), Giselle Palmer (Gazelle), Taylor Kastle (Taylor), Kiddy Smile (Daddy), Claude Gajan Maull (Emmanuelle), Léa Vlamos (Eva), Adrien Sissoko (Omar)
Country: France; Effed Up European Films
Language: French (Eng Subs); Effed Up French Movies
Runtime: 01:36:18
Genres: Drugs, Incest, SelfHarm-Suicide, Gay characters

Plot – Spoilers:
Following an audition, a group of dancers hold their final rehearsal in a decrepit building on the outskirts of Paris. In the celebratory party afterwards, they huddle in cliques bitching and lusting over each other. Soon they begin to experience panic and hallucinations and it is claimed that one of them had spiked the drinks with LSD. The intra-group animosities and prejudices surface as they turn on one another and themselves. Everyone gets fucked up and somehow you don’t feel bad for their plight.

Climax has a lot of Gaspar Noe’s staple aesthetics and technical marvels like a continuous shot that lasts half the film and weird vertigo-inducing camera angles. And a nice opening score with a woman’s cries as its lyrics.

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underworld-usa
underworld-usa
March 7, 2026 10:02 am

Aphex Twin plays at 1:11:42 so that’s awesome.

this movie is a tough but interesting watch. its hard seeing the characters descend to their most primal and ruthless states towards the end. like most of his other work, this is a very dark art film. the dancing is fun to watch but it does go on for quite a bit too long, but it also serves a purpose to show how well they are all doing at the beginning to how much they have devolved by the end.

the child dying is easily the most chilling moment of the whole movie. if you get to the end and do not want to see the kids Dead body, skip to 1:33:00.

psychedelics are no joke, sure they can be fun in the right environment but if you don’t have the right type of mind for them, things can go sideways real quick. I think that the effects of the drugs are very over dramatized in the movie, but using it as a source of horror for the movie is a good choice for the director I think, it really drives the unsettling nature the whole way through.

4/5, but I really like electronic music and the type of camera angles and dancing stuff in the movie. if that’s not your thing, you might wanna skip this one bc that’s about 75 percent of the movie

Cyraxx
Cyraxx
February 28, 2026 8:24 am

This is how I imagine humans behave once we lose our inhibitions. It shows the true face of humanity once the masks of sanity slips.

Cyraxx
Cyraxx
February 28, 2026 6:50 am

This is a neat film. I don’t understand the dancing. To me it looked like a bunch of people moving their arms around very fast, but I never got into dancing in general. It’s just not my thing. This film on the other hand is great. It scratches this special spot that only arthouse suffering can. No one is safe in this film. I give it three wet kisses out of one acid trip.

07597382476
07597382476
February 12, 2026 10:13 pm

Decades ago, when I led a lifestyle very different from today, I experimented several times with LSD.I stopped when after taking a very strong dose, I basically entered my own personal Hell, and I knew what I was doing! These poor folk never had a clue what was about to hit them.
Even 30 years later I still have occasional panic attacks/flashbacks, and in this remarkable film, Gasper Noe absolutely nails it. If anyone wants to see how bad it can get, this is a must watch!

Crasso
Crasso
July 18, 2025 7:18 am

Boring, the only part that could be decent it is when Tito got fried

junadaacidking
junadaacidking
April 18, 2025 8:05 pm

this movie is soo good i love how Gaspar Noe describe how serious psychedelic drugs are 10/9.4

valentine
valentine
April 1, 2025 5:17 am

Shout out to effedupmovies guy for getting this back up and running, we love you

I don't know
I don't know
March 4, 2025 1:01 pm

Both links are down, any chance for a reupload please? Thank you

Fuckfartasslicker420
Fuckfartasslicker420
August 30, 2024 11:43 pm

PCP mixed with LSD, would’ve been A LOT more believable than this. LSD would never do something like this. Great visuals, terrible plot and script. 4/10

DammitJanet
DammitJanet
August 12, 2024 10:54 pm

Do not trust a blonde chubby from Europe. But yes dance like a mf.

serge
serge
August 4, 2024 1:15 am

visuals are sick. if u don’t care about plots and enjoy experimental shit that has no meaning this is for u. better when watching it stoned

derp
derp
July 16, 2024 2:46 am

Pretty accurate description of art residences and its residents… an average afternoon on your modern culturally enriched french city

Kita
Kita
June 22, 2024 3:17 am

Genuinely a bad film. No storyline except “someone’s spiked us” cool fab but it just seems like a lot shock value stuff without any actual substance. Half the film is some mediocre dancing where everyone just vogues, punches the air or tries to dislocate their bodies then the second half is just really shitty annoying camera work to be edgy with a bit of incest and infanticide so all in all 1 star terrible movie

Kelly
Kelly
June 6, 2024 3:11 am

Wow that was one hell of a ride. Definitely need to rewatch to figure out more of what was happening.

fear
fear
May 31, 2024 10:58 am

Plot is degenerates doing degenerate stuff, but high on something… dance isn’t really my thing and there is a lot of it, which i skipped. The atmosphere is pretty cool though, the whole thing is kinda disturbing, there’s a couple cool brutal scenes, and it’s nicely filmed (except the last 15 minutes, that are uspide down and blurry).
Less good than Gaspard Noe’s other work, mainly because it wants itself to be a art piece more than a movie. 2 stars.

Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
April 28, 2024 3:37 am

Dance troupe goes to an old abandoned school or something. The first half of the film they dance. The second half they spaz out. The plot: “Did someone put something in the sangria?” Just a bunch of random shit with upside down irritating camerawork for the last 15 minutes. No rhyme or reason to it really. Personally, I thought this movie really sucked and it seemed like it would never end. Too arty farty. 1 star.

Rmac
Rmac
March 1, 2024 9:12 am

How much LSD would you have to consume to be that messed up on it. I guess varies from person to person. You had one or 2 guys that weren’t exactly having bad trips, they were locked into dancing which was becoming more out of something you see on the exorcist.
This was the second movie I’ve seen of Gaspars where once the camera is flipped upside down, it gets pretty wild.

Who Cares
Who Cares
November 9, 2023 6:53 pm

I kept skipping big chunks of time until I reached about 45 minutes into the movie. That time I skipped seemed like useless content, as if I didn’t really miss anything & I very quickly got acclimated to everything going on from that point.

Boo bee
Boo bee
September 11, 2023 10:06 am

Was waiting for the gay sex tbh, and the dancing was great, but it got so boring. Also, hated how the kid died

Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne
August 23, 2023 11:50 pm

I won’t read the comments anymore, I’m only here for the films and minding my own business. Ignoring the parasites on here and reviewing a film if and when I feel like it. I refuse to entertain and retaliate to trolls.

Shaya
Shaya
August 17, 2023 4:42 am

Everyone in the movie acts like fucking crackheads.

Don't mind me
Don't mind me
August 11, 2023 8:04 am

Boring. Did we really need all that dancing and the dude screaming in the end? Good actors tho

secretsanta
secretsanta
August 3, 2023 9:31 pm

Love everything about this film, they just got the drug wrong

Ron Jeremy
Ron Jeremy
July 23, 2023 12:45 pm

Swallow my cock

Ring
Ring
July 18, 2023 3:18 pm

Kinda long but not bad. Visually stunning.
Ps: what tf are the people in the comments on, jesus christ

Kikitza
Kikitza
July 18, 2023 11:46 am

This film makes you lowkey want to dance dont lie.

la pindonga
la pindonga
July 16, 2023 4:02 am

the movies of gaspar noe show not the usual stuff like the other “normal” films but sadly are generally full of boring situations only reedemed when the “shit” appears. in this case is watch how the protagonists getting worser in your behaviours in the middle of the film (generally become aggressive and hateful like the comments in the site LOL) all of this beautifully filmed
thats it. sorry my poor english i am from argentina and this is the first (of a very lot of) comment in this great site.

fred fat
fred fat
July 15, 2023 11:54 am

ok movie but the climax was good

Steves anal inferno
Steves anal inferno
July 12, 2023 7:42 am

“Burn baby burn
In the childrens infernoooo!!!!”

Richard
Richard
July 10, 2023 4:44 pm

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Ed
Ed
July 10, 2023 4:22 pm

Are all you little jack off faggots in a tizzy today? Are you all wound up? Grow up you little fucking jerks. You little fucking assholes shouldn’t be on an adult movie website anyway.

PedXposure
PedXposure
July 10, 2023 10:04 am

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HairyPotter
HairyPotter
July 10, 2023 8:23 am

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A message for the loser in question:
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Yours truly,

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Heinz Nazijewburner
Heinz Nazijewburner
July 9, 2023 11:57 pm

FUCK YOU YOU CREEPS!!!! JUST BECAUSE I HAVE KNEE-JERK REACTIONS WHEN PEOPLE GIVE ME SHIT DOESN’T MEAN I’M A FUCKING JERK OFF!!!! Ohhhhhh….JUST FUCK YOU YOU ASSHOLES!!!!!!

Andy
Andy
July 9, 2023 2:20 am

Pitiful compared to earlier films. Thanks all the same.

All wound up
All wound up
July 8, 2023 10:31 pm

Listen you cowards,I’m serious……….I HAVE NO FUCKING PENIS,i don’t know what to do? I’m sure i had it last night,oh fuck i haaaaave nooo cock!!!!!!!

leo
leo
July 8, 2023 10:19 pm

really good movie!

Doc Holiday
Doc Holiday
July 8, 2023 10:17 pm

Cunt of a filum for cunts in general,if you liked this bullshit,you’re a 5 star fuckin idiot & as noted,a cunt,fuck off,admins are cunts for posting such cuntism,y’all get fucked too @everyone,y’all are fuckin Rtards,Eat shit cock polishers.

Immature crybabys
Immature crybabys
July 8, 2023 11:55 am

Listen very carefully,elementary,jack off,immatuture,grow up faggots,kids jacking of faggots,clocks ticking,doomsday ones,listen & listen good,something about cowards,yeah lots of faggots,immature faggots,gay crybaby faggots,listen just you listen….you cowards

HairyPotter
HairyPotter
July 8, 2023 8:51 am

I remember one time I was high af on 10 tabs of acid I forgot where I parked my car and was freaked out i’d get a parking ticket from the mean parking cops for like a whole day, took xans and ket to calm tf down and somehow ended up in a different city four days later. Climax reminds me of that

DOOMSDAY WARNING
DOOMSDAY WARNING
July 7, 2023 7:49 pm

Its ticking,you cowards & fucking douchebags.

Vicent Vega
Vicent Vega
July 7, 2023 7:44 pm

My favourite Gaspar Noe movie along with I Stand Alone. It makes you feel like you are taking part in this very bad trip that descends into pure hell. Pure agony, 10 out of 10

Berkowitz
Berkowitz
July 7, 2023 5:00 pm

Hate this guys movies,this was trash too,ive fully watched most & parts of others,just boring

michael rodway
michael rodway
July 7, 2023 12:10 pm

amazing film

coco kiss
coco kiss
July 7, 2023 8:36 am

Gaspar Noe one of my french favourite directors and Alexandre Aja, too!
crazy – sexy – cool
merci
coco

Listen up shitheads
Listen up shitheads
July 7, 2023 7:58 am

Let me be perfectly clear. Little immature fucking jack offs do not belong on adult movie websites. If you feel that this comment pertains to you directly, by all means, feel free to leave a love note you fucking douche bags. Ta ta for now you little fucking jerk offs.

Tirademovietalk
Tirademovietalk
July 7, 2023 2:37 am

One of my all time favorites so much happens in this film. Gaspar Noe greater than Alfred Hitchcock

Steve
Steve
July 6, 2023 8:24 pm

i love it when all my little boys climax,makes me nut harder

Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe
July 6, 2023 6:50 pm

Pure genius.