Cub [Welp] ***½ (2014, Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Jonas Govaerts‘s Cub is a really good horror movie in the classic style. It starts nice and tense and creepy, then it turns plenty gory and exciting, and it is topped off with a surprising ending.

Young Maurice Luijten stars as the over-imaginative 12 year-old Belgian boy Sam, who heads off to summer wolf cub camp in the French countryside with his pack and is told that he would encounter a monster if he goes into the woods… and he does.

It starts well and keeps going powerfully along, and there’s plenty of plot, incident, and characters to fill its 85 minutes. Plus there is a satisfying open ending for the sequel, a must, of course, for all horror movies.

With the young age of the cubs being terrorised, and violence being done to a woman (the sole female on screen), Evelien Bosmans as Jasmijn, I imagine it might give the BBFC a headache, though!

© Derek Winnert 2015 Movie Review

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