I am at an utter loss when it comes to how to categorize Ole Bornedal's Deliver Us From Evil (Fri Os Fra Det Onde). Is it a human drama that turns dark and nasty? An unusually nuanced thriller? A cerebral action film? Bornedal had a fantastic one-two punch a couple years back with Vikaren and Just Another Love Story and now it looks like he's back with something even more potent.

In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes' childhood town in the country. When Johannes' drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price. The town soon reveals its ugly face, as revenge, hatred and xenophobia become the order of the day, turning the life of Johannes and his family into a living nightmare.

The trailer for this looks nothing at like what I had expected and is absolutely, jaw droppingly good. That this film was completely absent from the market in Berlin stands to me as a sure sign that the powers that be a pushing hard for an appearance in Cannes, and rightly so. You can find the trailer below the break.