But where will they stop? After The Sadness And Terrify 2the firm ESC continues its exploration of gore that stains and hurts with Wolf Hunting Project by Kim Yeon-Sun, a South Korean film discovered at the Gérardmer Festival which would almost make these two previous films pass for bluettes intended for nursery schools. Detainees and policemen traveling by ocean liner between the Philippines and Seoul will kill each other there with cheerful enthusiasm against a backdrop of military experience.
“Seeing this type of film in theaters is a real cinema experience, explains to 20 minutes Victor Lamoussière, head of cinema distribution at ESC. They called us crazy when we went out The Sadness but the public came! » 50,000 entries for The Sadness and 70,000 for Terrify 2 constitute great successes for such violent horror films.
A varied and respectful public
“The public is varied, insists Victor Lamoissière. It ranges from old-timers in love with gore, young couples looking for thrills, and kids trying to cheat their way in when movies are banned for under-16s. There are even women when we sometimes think that this genre only attracts a male audience. “ Common point between all these spectators: “They are respectful and do not put the boxon in the room even when the action is in full swing”.
Generous and radical
There’s no shortage of action in Wolf Hunting Project when the prisoners, their guards and a creature as bloodthirsty as it is indestructible take the gigantic boat as their playground. It hits, it squirts, it crushes and it pisses blood! If the director does not always have a sense of the ellipsis (he mixes genres a little, which causes a drop in pace), he knows the codes of horror that hurts. ” Wolf Hunting Project is an intense and generous film, says Victor Lamoussière. People who go to see it know what they expect from it: gore and a radical point of view and that’s what they’ll get. »
Wolf Hunting Project proves that Korean and “gorissime” is not a redundancy. This festival of fights and brutal killings combines the two to the delight of lovers of visceral horror.