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    First Image from Historical-Folk-Horror 'King's Daughters' from Director Pascal Plante ('Red Rooms') - Set in 1663, it follows the cursed transatlantic voyage of the first group of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to be married off in his faltering colony of New-France, now known as Quebec.
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    First Image from Historical-Folk-Horror ‘King’s Daughters’ from Director Pascal Plante (‘Red Rooms’) – Set in 1663, it follows the cursed transatlantic voyage of the first group of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to be married off in his faltering colony of New-France, now known as Quebec.


    First Image from Historical-Folk-Horror ‘King’s Daughters’ from Director Pascal Plante (‘Red Rooms’) – Set in 1663, it follows the cursed transatlantic voyage of the first group of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to be married off in his faltering colony of New-France, now known as Quebec.

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    1. viennawaits94 on

      This sounds so interesting and I can’t believe the story has never been adapted before

    4. pervy_roomba on

      So like. I’m not originally from any North American country but there is something about North American colonial life that fills me with like an existential dread.

      These little ramshackle wooden towns in the middle of these dense endless forests. The brutal winters. The early sunsets. Having no idea what the fuck is out in the woods. Your existence relying entirely on tenuous and unpredictable supply lines.

      The first autumn I spent in the American northeast was horrible. Sounds in the night like a woman screaming (people later told me it was either a screech owl or a fox but I had no idea, I just heard screaming from the woods in the middle of the night.) Then the leaves fall leaving these bare and dead looking jagged black trees, endlessly grey and colorless skies, and dead yellow dried out grass. This feeling of being surrounded by nothing. Days getting shorter and shorter.

      The very idea of these girls being packed into a ship and sent off to that. To marry men they’d never met, to live in this state of isolation, to have nowhere to run. To be expected to just know how to run a household and manage life in this level of isolation, oh and also have sex on demand with a man you may or may not find repulsive, get pregnant and give birth and care for children in the meanwhile.

      I can barely stand to think about it in a fictional context but to think this was something very real women- many of them still basically girls- had to endure.

    5. EditorWilling6143 on

      Sounds fascinating! I have French Canadian ancestry and I’m descended from at least one of the Filles du Roi (that I’ve managed to find in my family tree), so I’ll definitely be checking this out. Though it’s “historical folk horror,” and thus seems highly fictionalized, I hope they won’t change too much of the history part.

    11. fstaprpg on

      Red Rooms was masterful; highly recommend. Really excited to see this story get the same intense-yet-thoughtful treatment.

    15. Formal-Proposal7850 on

      Ben là j’avais aucune idée qu’il y aura un film sur les filles du roi.

      ETA: y a qqn qui sait si ça va être en français ou anglais?

    17. Busy-Doughnut6180 on

      I don’t do horror, except once every 5-10 years or so when something surprisingly pulls me in… 

      It’s been a while. I’m intrigued. 

    18. dust_cover on

      I’m descended from one of these women. I can’t wait to see this, even though it’s going to horrify me.

    19. InternetSnek on

      Canadian here! They are known as “Les Filles du Roi” (the king’s girls/ the king’s daughters depending on the historical interpretation). We learned about them in school in Ontario as a part of the Canadian history curriculum back in the day.

    21. notheretoparticipate on

      If anyone wants to read a fiction book (but based heavily on this real historical event) check out Promised to the Crown by Aimee K. Runyan. It follows three women who take up the deal and travel to Canada on this voyage. While there is romance, pretty much every terrible thing that can happen to a woman during this era happens to the characters. It was a good read but not necessarily a feel good read.