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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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‘Home Bodies’ Image & Poster Introduce Isolated Twins in Sci-Fi Nightmare [Fantasia 2026]
Sci-fi thriller Home Bodies is set to unsettle audiences at the 30th edition of Fantasia, and our exclusive image introduces a peculiar pair of twins at the center.
Home Bodies makes its World Premiere July 23, at 9:30 PM at Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with the filmmakers and cast in attendance.
An eerie new poster created by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative heralds the film’s premiere.
In the film, “Red and Blue, twins raised in total isolation by an automated house, live according to the rules set by Papa, a disembodied voice behind a locked door who provides food, shelter, entertainment, and order. Their carefully controlled world is disrupted by the arrival of Pal, an enigmatic humanoid stranger whose presence begins to fracture the only life the twins have ever known.”
It’s a premise that calls another Canadian creeper to mind and has us intrigued: Pin.
Emma Ho, Ian Ho, and Ess Hödlmoser star.
Home Bodies is directed and produced by Casey Walker, who returns to Fantasia more than a decade after his horror-comedy A Little Bit Zombie screened at the festival in 2012. He’s since gone on to produce a number of defining Canadian genre films like In a Violent Nature, The Void, and Pyewacket.
“I started my career in Montreal and Fantasia has been part of my life ever since,” said Walker. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to where it all started and share Home Bodies on such a special anniversary of the festival.“
Karen Harnisch (Infinity Pool, Sleeping Giant) also produces. Executive producers are Todd Brown (The Raid, Mandy) and Chad Archibald (undertone).
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