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Cub (Welp)

German title: Camp Evil
Russian title: Детёныш
Original title: Welp

Alternative titles:
Волчонок | Детеныш

Horror movie – Belgium
Production year: 2013
Movie length: 84 minutes

Director: Jonas Govaerts
Writer: Jonas Govaerts, Roel Mondelaers
Cinematograph: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Music: Steve Moore

Movie description:

Sam, 12, is in trouble: his entire »Pathfinder« scout troop picks on him – and worse. The leader, Peter, is the worst of all. He seems to find a sadistic pleasure in humiliating Sam. This year’s trip is to a wood near the French border where a curious legend named Kai is said, around the campfire, to make mischief. But when Sam finds that Kai is no legend and that he makes more than mischief, no one believes him.

»Cub« is a horror adventure in which a young imaginative twelve-year-old boy named Sam heads off to camp with his Cub Scouts pack, leaders Peter and Chris and quartermaster Yasmin. Once they enter the woods, Sam quickly feels something is not quite right. He soon stumbles upon a mysterious tree house and meets a shifty, masked feral-looking boy. When Sam tries to warn his leaders, they ignore him: the boy often tells tall tales and Sam’s mysterious past which he refuses to talk about makes his leader Peter mistrust him. As Sam gets more and more isolated from the other scouts, he becomes convinced a terrible fate awaits them: the Feral Child, it turns out, is the helper of the Poacher, an evil psychopath, who has riddled the forest with ingenious traps and is intent on slaughtering the scouts ... one by one ...

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