Climax (2018)

In the winter of 1996, a professional French dance troupe, led by manager Emmanuelle and choreographer Selva, rehearse an upcoming performance in an abandoned school. After completing the elaborate closing piece of the dance, the group commence a celebratory after-party, dancing and drinking sangria made by Emmanuelle, while DJ Daddy provides music.

As the party progresses, the dancers become increasingly agitated and confused, eventually concluding that the sangria has been spiked with a hallucinogen, presumably LSD. They initially accuse Emmanuelle since she made the drink, but she points out that she drank it too and is also suffering from its effects. Taylor, already resentful towards Omar for dating his sister Gazelle, proclaims that Omar is the only one who has not had the sangria, since he does not drink alcohol for religious reasons, causing the rest of the group to throw Omar out into the snowstorm.

Emmanuelle finds her young son, Tito, drinking the sangria and locks him inside an electrical room to protect him from the dancers. Selva goes to the room of her friend Lou, who confesses that she did not drink because she is pregnant. A drug-addled Dom enters the room, accuses Lou of spiking the drink and kicks her repeatedly in the stomach, not believing she is pregnant. In the kitchen, Alaïa catches Jennifer snorting cocaine, despite earlier telling Alaïa that she had none, which causes Alaïa to angrily push Jennifer into a portable stove, setting her hair on fire.

A frenzied Lou confronts Dom on the dance floor, but the others also accuse Lou of having spiked the drink. At first taking up a knife to defend herself, the taunts of the group cause Lou to have a breakdown, and she punches herself in the stomach and slashes herself with the knife on her face and arm as the group encourages her to kill herself, before being comforted by Eva.

Selva, hearing screams, finds Emmanuelle, who has lost the key to the electrical room in which Tito is locked and is screaming for help due to hallucinations. While Emmanuelle desperately searches for the key, Selva witnesses Taylor and a group brutally beating David, who has spent the night talking about having sex with all the women in the group. When the school suddenly loses electricity and switches to red emergency lighting, someone laughingly shouts that Tito has electrocuted himself.

In a shower, Eva desperately tries to wash off the blood from Lou's cuts. Ivana drags Selva to her room, where they kiss and start having sex. David enters and tries to drag out Selva, who pushes him out and locks the door. David is also turned away by Daddy, who is comforting Riley who has been repeatedly rejected by David throughout the evening. David then catches Taylor having incestuous sex with Gazelle in a bathroom. Gazelle flees and stumbles into the central hall, where the remaining dancers have descended into drug-induced psychosis, dancing wildly, having sex, or physically assaulting one another. Taylor catches up to Gazelle and professes his love to her, as she sobs and suffers a seizure on the floor. Taylor takes her to his room while David is attacked by another dancer who slams his head against the floor.

When police arrive the next morning, they find almost all of the dancers either unconscious or dead. Ivana's girlfriend Psyché continues to dance alone. Dom is curled up alone, sobbing. Jennifer is splashing water on her burned scalp, screaming. Tito's corpse lies beside the open door of the electrical junction cabinet. Emmanuelle has killed herself outside the electrical room out of grief. Lou exits the building and writhes outside in the snow, laughing uncontrollably. Omar has frozen to death in the snow. Eva is curled up naked in the shower cubicle. Daddy cradles Riley in his bed. Gazelle wakes up next to Taylor, who instructs her not to say anything to their father. Ivana and Selva are asleep, cuddling. Psyché, who has several books related to hallucinogens in her bag, goes to her room and drops liquid LSD into her eye.