Franck Richard’s THE PACK ( LA MEUTE) is one to keep an eye on. The flick had an outdoor screening scheduled last week at Cannes that was subsequently blocked by French censors concerned about the film’s disturbing content. The screening was then moved to an indoor theater, making age verification easier. It’s that kind of free buzz that raises the stock on a film like THE PACK for horror geeks. It also doesn’t hurt that it’s from France, where horror has been brutal and icky in recent years…
24Framespersecond.net got their hands on three new stills from the film, which you can see above and below. None of them show off the kind of weirdness we’re looking for (as opposed to THIS earlier image), but hey, you won’t find me complaining about a hot chick toting a gun or sitting in a cage…
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.
THE PACK, starring Émilie Dequenne (pictured), Benjamin Biolay, Brice Fournier and Philippe Nahon, has a JULY 7th release date planned in France. Hopefully we’ll get some news on international distribution soon.
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