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Rating: 7 stars

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The Pack (2010)

Directed by Franck Richard

Horror

Overview

In the middle of a snowy no man’s land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn’t come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max’s mother and needs to feed her kids, ‘The pack’, a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead… and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes… she’s next on the menu!

Length 85 minutes

Actors

Yolande Moreau | Émilie Dequenne | Benjamin Biolay | Philippe Nahon | Matthias Schoenaerts | Eric Godon | Ian Fonteyn | Georges Lini | Philippe Résimont | Brice Fournier | Nicolas Leroy | Mathieu Bouteligier | François Doms | Benoît Vivien | Joris Strickx | Alexia De Coster

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I have to say that the French have produced some pretty vicious, nasty little horror movies in the last ten years, and The Pack (La Meute) rates right up there. While it isn’t entirely successful, it does a pretty good job of pushing the plot forward with only the minimum of exposition that sometimes drags these sorts of things down.

Some might consider that a weakness but I got the inferences and didn’t need all the back story’s details spoon fed to me.

The Pack is pretty dark and bleak from start to finish, and gets downright nasty at times. Definitely worth the watch.

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