The new film version of Matthew G. Lewis’ controversial, groundbreaking 1796 Gothic novel arrives next month, and the poster and trailer have hit the web.

ATO Pictures will release THE MONK in select theaters and for on-demand viewing and download starting Friday, March 8. The French-language film was directed by WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY…’s Dominik Moll and stars Vincent Cassel (from BLACK SWAN, BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF and many others) as Brother Ambrosio, a devout man of the cloth in a 16th-century Madrid monestary who believes himself immune from temptation, until the arrival of a mysterious apprentice leads him down a path of sin and corruption. The movie also stars Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi Lopez, Catherine Mouchet, Jordi Dauder and Geraldine Chaplin; Moll and Anne Louise-Trividic adapted Lewis’ book, which has been filmed twice before by directors Adonis Kyruo and Francisco Lara Polop.

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