5150 Elm's Way (2009) movie poster

5150 Elm's Way

5150, rue des Ormes

2009 ·1h 50m · ★ 6.4 (127)

Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.

Why it matters

A tense psychological thriller where small-town dread meets cerebral cat-and-mouse, exploring the horrors lurking behind suburban facades.

  • Jacques Beaulieu’s twisted chess obsession turns a home invasion into a high-stakes mental battleground.
  • Gritty, claustrophobic atmosphere captures the creeping paranoia of being trapped in a fanatic’s lair.
  • For fans of slow-burning, character-driven terror that trades blood for psychological torment.
  • Practical tension over gore — a reminder that horror’s real game often plays out in the mind, not just the body.
3 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
28
Slow Burn
33
Psychological
57
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
33
Fun Factor
0
Cerebral
0
Survival
50
Serial Killer

Content Warnings

DehumanizationTorture

Phobia triggers

Tight Spaces

TMDB Keywords

chesshostagepsychopath

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