Our weekend so far has been rather lazy. Yesterday we planned on hiking Mont Royal, the mountain that is the namesake for the city of Montreal. The term Mountain is a bit misleading as Mont Royal is more of a medium-sized hill, or as I like to think of it, a Kansas mountain. Also on our schedule was watching the fireworks display at the port. Yesterday’s thunderstorm had a different idea.

We ended up stranded at home all day long. Lots of naps, lots of catching up on design work and of course a late-night thriller movie à français.

5150 Rue des Ormes is a horror/thriller movie made in Quebec. A teenager crashes his bicycle and when he goes to a nearby home to call a cab, he stumbles across a man being murdered inside the house. Over the course of five months the teenager is held captive by the family and he descends in to madness. Eventually he is given the ultimatum, beat his captor at a game of chess or forever be held captive. Sounds corny but the director makes it work. *Spoiler* Ultimately he is forced to play a game of chess using the preserved bodies of the killer’s victims as the pieces and is one move away from winning when the police arrive.*spoiler*

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1331291/

The director of the film is heralded as the “Stephen King of Quebec”. And like many Stephen King movies I enjoyed the film but, given the opportunity, I doubt I would watch it again.