DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Foreign Objects: Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups)

  • DMuff · 9 months ago
    I love this movie, I remember back when it originally came out that it was hard to locate, I'll have to pick up this new extended dvd.
  • _Christopher_M · 9 months ago
    I have it on VHS and DVD..lol...it was so odd to see martial arts in a period piece horror film and it ended up being very entertaining...
  • prospektor · 9 months ago
    Um, I normally let these sort of things slide, but this I cannot abide. You claim Brotherhood of the Wolf "steals from a lot of other films, many of them better films, but it does so wisely", and include Zach Snyder's action scenes in your list of references. Brotherhood of the Wolf was released in 2001, Zach Snyder didn't direct his first film until 2004's Dawn of the Dead. So one might pose the question, who's taking inspiration from whom?
  • The King of France · 9 months ago
    I saw this movie when it came out, convoluted plot and over-the-top sound effects aside, it was made of win. Also, for everyone thinking of watching this film with the English dub, don't. The voices are simply awful. I'm glad to hear there's a directors cut, now. I'll have to stand with prospektor on the thievery accusations as being absurd, especially on the Zach Snyder time traveling. I wish Gans would make films more often.
  • Rob_Hunter · 9 months ago
    I realize the two sentences are next to each other, but I didn't mean to imply the movie stole slo-mo action from Snyder... I was simply referencing the visual pieces that make up Gans' movie so the viewer knows what to expect. I also reference the movie 'Malena' for a nude Bellucci... doesn't mean this movie steals plot lines involving Italian widows and pubescent children.
  • ipoop · 9 months ago
    the chairman fuckin rocks it in this one
  • djjeffhall · 9 months ago
    I remember seeing this in the theaters (With subtitles, not dubbed.) when it as released stateside. I rather enjoyed it's excess, which seem mild given the current excess rained down upon us by Watchmen. If it comes out in my local theater I'll gladly see it again. (Or break down and buy the DVD, though since I've owned the original DVD might take a while to pick up.)

    Thanks for the review.