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First ‘The Pack’ Image and a Tease From the Set!
We’ve got a very special treat for you this morning… how about your very first look at Franck Richard’s French horror flick The Pack, which is currently lensing off in the UK?! Beyond the break you can read a little set report tease from B-D stringer Tom Espley, and check out the first image featuring SFX work by Atelier 69 (Frontier(s), Mutants, The Horde, Via Ferrate), led by Olivier Afonso. He’s know for his groundbreaking work on all of the aforementioned horror films.
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.
Bloody-Disgusting were lucky enough to have been invited on to the set to witness first-hand the production of upcoming movie `The Pack’ (La Meute), from company La Fabrique de Films, who brought us the gruesome masterpiece `Inside’ (À l’intérieur) and `Humans’.
After being driven up a bumpy dirt track we arrived at the top of a manmade mountain of coal mining waste. Nerves of steel were required for this one – as the night and the cold set in the shadows lengthened and the corners darkened, and the desolate wasteland took on an eerie and chilling atmosphere. Somewhere on set lurked the ghouls; gruesome, bloody, and most of all – hungry. So, imagine the feeling when you enter a smoke-filled, candlelit room to sit down for chow only to be joined by the whole pack of ravenous ghouls. More than once did I have to check out of the corner of my eye to make sure that was just red wine in their glasses. If you think I’m being oversensitive, check out the exclusive shot that Bloody-Disgusting managed to get their claws on. This tasty morsel definitely left me hungry for more, as this movie promises to be truly terrifying and unique; and from my experience, I’m expecting it to deliver.
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‘Los Vampires’ Trailer Gives Deadly Twist on the Production of 1931’s Spanish ‘Dracula’ [Fantasia 2026]
The production of George Melford‘s 1931 Spanish Dracula sets the stage for murder in the period horror movie Los Vampires, and we’re exclusively premiering the trailer ahead of its festival debut.
Los Vampires will make its World Premiere at the 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs July 16 through August 2.
Watch the stunning new trailer below, which sees art imitate life horrifically, in the vein of Shadow of the Vampire.
The film is set in 1930 Hollywood, and follows as “a Spanish actor is cast in the night shoot of a soon-to-be-legendary vampire film, forced to imitate the English-speaking star who performs the same role by day. The two actors regularly meet at the transitory hours of their shoots, and a rivalry stirs between them. All the while, a string of murders are occurring on and around the soundstage.”
Note that the actor and star in the film’s premise aren’t named; Los Vampires is a “fantastical fictionalized account” of the making of Melford’s classic horror film, one that was shot overnight on the same sets as Tod Browning’s Dracula. That means that names have respectfully been altered.
Los Vampires is written and directed by Craig Mitchell (Komodo), who has lined up an impressive cast.
Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick and Spectre actor Thomas Kretschmann lead as uncanny surrogates for Carlos Villarías and Bela Lugosi.
Daniela Couso (Serial Beauty), Jefferson Mays (Inherent Vice), Oscar Nuñez (“The Office”), and Jorge Diaz (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) round out the cast.
Fantasia describes the feature as “a meticulously designed, occult-tinged tribute to the dignity of performance… and a darkly imaginative, bittersweet love letter to old Hollywood – and the forgotten struggles that made it what it was.”
Stay tuned for more on Los Vampires, including premiere timing, as Fantasia gets underway next month.