The Last Ashes – FrightFest 2024 Movie Review
Director: Loïc Tanson
Writer: Loïc Tanson, Frederic Zeimet (Screenplay)
Cast
- Sophie Mousel (Blood Craft)
- Timo Wagner (The Racer)
- Jules Werner (Wolfkin)
- Luc Schiltz (Skin Walker)
- Philippe Thelen (De Buttek)
Plot: Hélène returns to her native village under a new identity. Looking for revenge and, alone, she is ready to do anything to destroy the Graff family.
Runtime: 2 Hours
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: The Last Ashes starts as we meet a young girl Hélène who lives with her family in Graff’s (Werner) strict household. However, when she comes of age, she must go through a process in which she refuses. Her family tries to leave, but Graff’s soldiers catch up with them, leaving Hélène for dead.
15-years-later Hélène (Mousel) has survived and has a lifetime of stories, which leads her back to Luxembourg. Hélène finds her way back into Graff’s village, where she plans her revenge, getting to know the people she left behind.
Verdict on The Last Ashes
The Last Ashes is a horror thriller following a young woman who was exiled and left for dead as a child, returning to the man who abandoned her. She wants revenge, which sees her getting close to the group and learning how to expose his ways of destruction to people who don’t agree with him.
This movie challenges the revenge nature we have seen and always makes for an entertaining story. It uses the cult to show a group of people willing to do anything for their leader, which takes things to the extreme. While also highlighting how somebody is willing to suffer to make them see the error in judgment. When the fight sequences unfold, they are brutal, showing that revenge means even more after what was taken. In the end, this shows the destructive path for revenge, while diving into the 1800s battle for position in the world and belief in a higher power.
Final Thoughts – The Last Ashes is a brutal revenge thriller.