Evil Words

Evil Words
FrenchSur le seuil
Directed byÉric Tessier
Written byÉric Tessier
Patrick Senécal
Based onSur le seuil by Patrick Senécal
Produced byNicole Robert
StarringMichel Côté
Patrick Huard
CinematographyDenis-Noël Mostert
Edited byAlain Baril
Music byNed Bouhalassa
Production
company
Distributed byAlliance Atlantis
Release date
  • October 3, 2003 (2003-10-03)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Evil Words (French: Sur le seuil, lit. "On the Threshold") is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2003. Adapted from the novel Sur le seuil by Patrick Senécal, the film stars Michel Côté as Paul Lacasse, a doctor who is treating famous horror novelist Thomas Roy (Patrick Huard) following a suicide attempt, and begins to find evidence that Roy was in close proximity to every one of the last several dozen tragedies to occur anywhere in Canada.

The cast also includes Catherine Florent, Albert Millaire, Jean L'Italien, Jacques Lavallée, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Normand D'Amour, Nicolas Canuel, Frédérique Collin, Annette Garant, Christine Foley, Alexis Belec, Paul Doucet, Guy Boutet, Anne-Marie Labelle, Frédéric Gilles, Richard Fréchette, Martin Dubreuil, Geneviève Laroche, Patrick Senécal, Lise Roy, Patrice Bélanger, Stéphane Blanchette and Éric Cabana in supporting roles.

The film opened in theatres on October 3, 2003.