Atmospherically unsettling horror film

george.schmidt

CUB (2014) *** Maurice Luijten, Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt Gill Eeckelaert, Jan Hammenecker. Atmospherically unsettling horror film set in the Belgian woods where a mysterious creature who may or may not be a werewolf or Wendigo is terrorizing the locales including a cub scout troop that has chartered the hinterlands for a weekend of activities. Novice filmmaker Jonas Govaerts employs all the tricks of the trade - and then some - with pulse-pounding music by Steve Moore, dank cinematography by Nicolas Karakatsanis and sharp editing by Maarten Janssens makes up for its ugliness and unrelenting final act that may in fact be the real horror.

score 8/10

george.schmidt 2 November 2014

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