La meute: Directed by Franck Richard. With Yolande Moreau, Émilie Dequenne, Benjamin Biolay, Philippe Nahon. One winter morning, while driving through the desolate French countryside, traveler Charlotte picks up hitchhiker Max. Together they stop at a roadside diner, where a strange and depraved horror awaits.. The Pack (2010) Review Overall, The Pack is a very impressive debut by writer/director Franck Richard who looks to be one of the up-and-coming horror directors to look out for over the coming years. Franck is not scared to use highly grotesque visuals to put his message across, whilst also injecting the plot with humour and great dialogue between all members of the cast. It's nice to see a.
The Pack is a gloriously grotesque Gallic gorefest, which seems to have slipped by largely unnoticed in the recent wave of modern French horror classics. That's a pity because this is a macabre marriage of potently poetic horror imagery and grimly fiendish gallows humour. Plotting veers towards incoherence at times, but the strength here is the stunningly haunting visuals - the scene of the.. 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 bath