Cub (2014)

	Also Known As: Welp (original)
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Jonas Govaerts
	Actors: Stef Aerts, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt
	Country: B
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 28.03.2015, CINEMA theater, MFFFN15
Synopsis: A group of scouts go camping for a week-end. They are forced to enter deeper in the forest. Sam, a disturbed kid, takes seriously the campfire story of a wild kid living in the forest.
Review: After watching movies like Calvaire, Alleluia, Frontiers or this Cub, you definitely don't want to get lost in the Ardennes forest between France and Belgium! Cub could have been just another forest survival movie (and it does sometimes get too predictable) but its originality is in the groups of scouts that face the dangers of the forest (even their three accompanying adult look very young), and I can tell you that not all of them will survive the adventure, which is something rare to see in a movie. We get to like the character of Sam, and watch him face the dangers with a different approach than his friends or leaders do. The movie is well shot, but some scenes and characters reactions are not realistic, and some too elaborate murders take you out of the atmosphere of realism that the movie has previously established. That is too bad, because apart from that the movie keeps the tension high all along and until the very end.
Rating: 5 /10