Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster...
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
How sad is this?
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
A couple of unpleasant pack leaders are preparing a group of unpleasant Pathfinder cub scouts for a camping trip. Sam (Maurice Luijten) isn't unpleasant, but he is late for their briefing, which earns him fifty press-ups whilst wearing his back-back. When they reach their intended camping site, the group run into two even more unpleasant youths with a grudge, racing around on a go-cart. This encourages the Pathfinders, who are also cowards, to camp somewhere else deep in the woods.The two arrogant leaders Chris (Titus De Voogdt) and Peter – or Baloo (Stef Aerts) – are joined by the only female of the group, chef Jasmijn (Evelien Bosmans). Jasmine and Chris go some way to curbing the Pathfinders' bullying ways towards Sam, but the young outcast is more concerned with strange moving shapes in the trees and the legend of a local werewolf called Kai (Gill Eeckelaert).The idea of Kai is a strong and appealing one. A feral child-creature living out in the woods. The more that is slowly revealed about him – and his father – slowly erodes the sinister mystique, which is a shame. And once we learn more about him, the horror aspects become less spectral, and more like solid slasher fare. And yet the twists and turns never stop until well, even I won't spoil that! This Belgian horror is a terrific production; it contains effective characters, fine set-pieces and some nicely contrived death scenes. For all the killings brought about by a selection of cruel and carefully set traps throughout the forest, the real monster here for me is Baloo. Titus De Voogdt instils him with relentless, cowardly spite and bullying ways, we truly cannot wait for his come-uppance, which can never be horrible enough!
Nice to see, another nice good Belgium movie after ''BLACK'' and "Sl8n8" and "LOFT 2008 original''. A few years ago, I mentioned that Belgium and the Netherlands should work together for better movies. Nice to see, that my country Belgium, have founded another way. Always, was the problem: money. Glad to see, we have now again a good Belgium horror. In the past, we even had a few gory splatter-movies. This horror movie focus mostly on character's building-up. Instead of only GORE and blood. Nevertheless, a little more blood and gore was welcome, to increase more the scary parts. It has indeed it's scary moments. There where 2 great action moments, where the music did kick-in. I've loved these moments + good music. Reminded me on those ''Halloween'' movies. Specially with that young girl of Michael Myers. Also here, 2 dead where original. So nice bonus. It's still not perfect, but for a more reasonable budget, Belgium did it's best AGAIN. Maybe it needs only more sponsors ??? Our latest movies are WAY better, than those from the Netherlands itself. Our next star movie: "BLACK 2015". Happens in Brussels.
For a start, I love movies set in the woods. It's probably my favourite horror movie location so I knew I was going to love this movie from the moment I first saw the trailer - and it didn't let me down when I watched the full movie.This is a brilliantly entertaining horror movie that is incredibly well made and really scary! The performances in the movie are all really good and the script was very compelling, leading to a fantastic, classic horror movie ending. The cinematography and direction are exceptional and I think Jonas Govaerts is a director to watch out for in the horror genre.I loved it!!!
Some films resonate a story so superb that it stays with you forever. I feel that way with "Cub". I wouldn't be surprised if this was picked up and made for the American audience since Hollywood has completely run out of original stories... or should I say created a studio nepotism that makes it so the cream does not go to the top. This film is not in English so I'm sure very few in the US have seen it. It's is worth every minute of your time! This film has it all.. I won't go into details.. but the protagonist's journey is wonderfully constructed, a great cast, beautifully shot and to mention once more.. one of the best stories in the horror genre in years!