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Alone on a road trip, Charlotte (Émilie Dequenne – Brotherhood of the Wolf) stops at the side of an isolated side to pick up a hitchhiker, Max (Benjamin Biolay). But when the pair pulls into a truck-stop restaurant a few miles later, Max goes to the bathroom – and disappears. Puzzled, Charlotte returns to the restaurant that night to look for him, only to become ensnared by La Spack (Yolande Moreau - Amélie, Gainsbourg), the sinister matriarch of a strange and terrifying ‘pack’. Before long, Charlotte realises that she is next on the menu...
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: In a snowy no man's land loner Charlotte Massot picks up hitchhiker Max for security after being hassled by an unruly motorbike gang. But when Max goes missing at the La Spack truck-stop café and she investigates his disappearance, little does she realise she is being set up to take part in an unholy ritual. Miners in the area once raped the earth for its riches. So is it any wonder Mother Nature is sending her own ghoulish monsters to reclaim another resource in return? Blood! Visually arresting and featuring many smartly directed twists and turns, Franck Richard's debut feature follows in the sick and slick tradition of recent French fear fare with Brotherhood of the Wolf star Emilie Dequenne and Gallic gore favourite Philippe Nahon acting their heads off. Literally. ...The Pack ( La meute )
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Emilie Dequenne makes an impulsive and gutsier heroine than normal, and acts as a bit of a trouble-magnet in this very enjoyable little gem. Warming to her hitch-hiker passenger, she's baffled when he disappears in a shabby roadside diner and returns to investigate. As usual in films of this kind, curiosity turns out to be a bad habit...
The characters are enjoyable and very watchable, from brutally practical matriarch La Spack, to Phillipe Nahon's oddball retired detective, through to the thoughtful hitch-hiker and the biker-gang trio who largely act as comic relief.
When the freaks come out to play, their reveal is intruiging and creepy, the properly executed stuff of weird horror nightmares, and the legend behind them is equally creepy. They themselves are hideous and freakish, and they make for a great relentless enemy.
Nearly everybody in the movie has a secret, and it's never short of intruigue. The only slightly lazy point is the inclusion of a character who's just obvious 'cannon fodder'. Consistently interesting, it's shot in bleak colours, has a tatty, run-down design to everything, and feels just real enough to be alarming. The gore is copious and well executed, and the tension is great. It even has perhaps the best '70s style cover I've seen in years.
Highly recommended.
The characters are enjoyable and very watchable, from brutally practical matriarch La Spack, to Phillipe Nahon's oddball retired detective, through to the thoughtful hitch-hiker and the biker-gang trio who largely act as comic relief.
When the freaks come out to play, their reveal is intruiging and creepy, the properly executed stuff of weird horror nightmares, and the legend behind them is equally creepy. They themselves are hideous and freakish, and they make for a great relentless enemy.
Nearly everybody in the movie has a secret, and it's never short of intruigue. The only slightly lazy point is the inclusion of a character who's just obvious 'cannon fodder'. Consistently interesting, it's shot in bleak colours, has a tatty, run-down design to everything, and feels just real enough to be alarming. The gore is copious and well executed, and the tension is great. It even has perhaps the best '70s style cover I've seen in years.
Highly recommended.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I saw The Pack (La Meute) at my local horror festival last October and have been patiently waiting for a dvd release and yes now it's here (released in the morning here in U.K.) I will be 1st in to my local HMV in the morning to pick my copy up. La Meute is the latest on the new-wave French horror scene and although i dont think it's as good as Inside or Switchblade Romance (High Tension) it's definetly not far behind and i must say it's something fresh and different as we've come to expect from our cousins over the channel. La Meute is about a girl traveling across country and picks up a good looking hitchhiker (Not a good start if you want to live) and they go to a grotty diner in the middle of nowhere and the young woman gets kidnapped by the diner owner La Spack and then is put through torture before being La Spack attempts to served her up as a snack to The Pack. I'm a massive French horror fan , i have lots of stuff that is French made from the obvious big boys like Inside , Frontier(s) and High Tension to the lesser known ones that are still good like Sheitan (Satan) , A Childs Game , Prey , Caged , the list could go on forever and i know i'm on to a winner with The Pack , it's moody , suspenseful , funny , gory and just outright great fun. The Pack is highly recommended and does star Phillipe Nahon who was the creepy serial killer in High Tension so that just makes it extra cool for me.
Look out for the crazy biker gang , they are funny and just lighten the tone a little , look like they just left the Tittie Twister in From Dusk til Dawn which i think they got inspiration from for little bits of this film , it's also like 2 different films as the tone changes half way through similar to Rodriguez' vampire opus.
Look out for the crazy biker gang , they are funny and just lighten the tone a little , look like they just left the Tittie Twister in From Dusk til Dawn which i think they got inspiration from for little bits of this film , it's also like 2 different films as the tone changes half way through similar to Rodriguez' vampire opus.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
With current wave of brutal Euro-horror showing no signs of abating, the playing field is becoming pretty crowded, with film makers already being reduced to trying to one-up each other in terms of gore and nastiness. Thankfully, although "The Pack" (La Meute), marking the debut of writer-director Franck Richard has more than the requisite servings of grue, it makes at least a little effort to throw a few new ideas into the mix. The French film also has a surprisingly high calibre cast of recognizable faces, including Benjamin Biolay (Stella), award winning Belgian actresses Yolande Moreau (recently in the "Gainsbourg" biopic) and Emilie Dequenne (Brotherhood of the Wolf) and acclaimed French veteran, Philippe Nahon (Switchblade Romance, Irreversible). The plot, it has to be said is familiar, with Dequenne as Charlotte, a young woman taking a road trip through the rural backwaters, who after a spot of trouble with some bikers at a food van picks up a hitchhiker - yeah always a great idea!.
To be fair, her new passenger, Max (Biolay) seems friendly enough, and the two stop off at the wretched café La Spack, whose middle aged female owner of the same name (Moreau) sees off the pursuing bikers with her shotgun. Although things are briefly calm, Max heads off to the bathroom, only to disappear without trace. Suspicious of La Spack and her increasingly bizarre behavior, Charlotte starts poking around and for her trouble is captured and thrust into a cage where she awaits her fate as dinner for the titular creatures. Although La Meute may sound like yet another straightforward slice of inbred rural psycho sadism, the film it most resembles is Fabrice Du Welz' superbly offbeat "The Ordeal", mixing its more traditional horror themes with some genuine weirdness and an effectively sinister atmosphere. The film is certainly more creative than its plot suggests, with a cast made up almost entirely of amusing oddballs and a definite sense of the surreal.
Furthermore, the film is split in three rather distinct parts, traveling through different subgenres of the horror spectrum. The first part clearly belongs to the freaks in a cabin genre, the middle part tips its head to torture/captivity horror flicks and for the finale La Meute morphs into a creature film. Underlying these different parts though is a constant stream of dark, amusing comedy that contrasts heavily with the grim and depraved setting. No doubt it won't be to everyone's liking, but if you think you can get past these particularities, there's plenty of fun to be had with Richard's film. Highly recommended to French horror fans.
To be fair, her new passenger, Max (Biolay) seems friendly enough, and the two stop off at the wretched café La Spack, whose middle aged female owner of the same name (Moreau) sees off the pursuing bikers with her shotgun. Although things are briefly calm, Max heads off to the bathroom, only to disappear without trace. Suspicious of La Spack and her increasingly bizarre behavior, Charlotte starts poking around and for her trouble is captured and thrust into a cage where she awaits her fate as dinner for the titular creatures. Although La Meute may sound like yet another straightforward slice of inbred rural psycho sadism, the film it most resembles is Fabrice Du Welz' superbly offbeat "The Ordeal", mixing its more traditional horror themes with some genuine weirdness and an effectively sinister atmosphere. The film is certainly more creative than its plot suggests, with a cast made up almost entirely of amusing oddballs and a definite sense of the surreal.
Furthermore, the film is split in three rather distinct parts, traveling through different subgenres of the horror spectrum. The first part clearly belongs to the freaks in a cabin genre, the middle part tips its head to torture/captivity horror flicks and for the finale La Meute morphs into a creature film. Underlying these different parts though is a constant stream of dark, amusing comedy that contrasts heavily with the grim and depraved setting. No doubt it won't be to everyone's liking, but if you think you can get past these particularities, there's plenty of fun to be had with Richard's film. Highly recommended to French horror fans.
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I am a big fan of the new wave of French horror movies, and am always on the lookout for the next video nasty. However, the Pack was a big dissapointment! Read more
Published 5 months ago by rixoom
a let down!
this started off looking like it was going to be full of gore and a few scares! but i'm afraid to say it just did not deliver!. got worse as it went on. Read more
Published 6 months ago by zombie1
Utterly awful
Oh my dear lord, what a lousy movie. Some folk seem to find quality in it, but I thought it was tripe. The good bits are few and far between and the bad bits are overwhelming.
Published 8 months ago by AngusM
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