Brutal Trailer for CUB — Horror Movie About Boy Scouts

Debut director Jonas Govaerts has created a really interesting looking horror film called Cub. The movie is showing at the Toronto Film Festival on September 10th, 11th, and 13th. It does not yet have a US release date, but I'm sure it will soon. Purely based on the violent and well-designed brutality in the trailer, it’s something horror fans should keep on their radar.

Synopsis: Troubled twelve-year-old Sam (Maurice Luijten) heads off on a summer camping trip with his Cub Scout troupe. When the highly imaginative boy claims to have seen a creature in the woods, his counsellors naturally assume that their campfire tales of a monster named Kai have gotten to him. But the danger Sam sees is all too real: watching from the darkness is a masked, feral child whose menacing snarl and quick movements go unnoticed by all except for Sam. As the mocking taunts of the other boys isolate Sam further from his pack, he becomes increasingly convinced that a terrible fate awaits them all.

In Cub, first-time feature director Jonas Govaerts draws on such influences as Lord of the Flies and The Devil’s Backbone to create a world filled with vivid childhood terrors. An atmosphere of danger and foreboding surrounds the young boys and their mostly clueless scout leaders, none of whom can see that they are the quarry in a sinister hunt — and as a series of ingenious booby traps start bloodily whittling down the troop’s numbers, it becomes clear that the boys are up against a foe far more formidable than even the perceptive Sam realizes.

Source: The Playlist and TIFF via /Film