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Movie Info

An impressionable youngster (Maurice Luijten) sees and hears things that lead him to believe that his troop leaders' scary tale about a feral boy is true.

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

French (Canada)
Director:

Jonas Govaerts
Producer:

Peter De Maegd
Writer:

Jonas Govaerts, Roel Mondelaers, Jonas Govaerts, Roel Mondelaers
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 12, 2017
Runtime:

1h 25m
Production Co:

Potemkino

Cast & Crew

Maurice Luijten
Sam

Stef Aerts
Peter

Evelien Bosmans
Jasmijn

Titus de Voogdt
Chris

Jan Hammenecker
Stroper

Gill Eeckelaert
Kai

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Critic Reviews for Cub

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (15)

Cub is characterised by terrific performances (especially from the pre-teen cast), playfully ghoulish bloodwork, and the most inventive instruments of death we've seen since the Saw franchise ran out of ideas.

March 7, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
The build-up is entertainingly eccentric, and there's some ingenious booby-trappery at work among the pines, but Cub runs dry once it knuckles down to the routine bloodletting.

August 2, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jonathan Romney
Observer (UK)
Not much adventure. Not much horror.

July 31, 2015 | Rating: 2/5

Matthew Thrift
Little White Lies
Impressively nightmarish.

July 30, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
Cub is from that niche genre, Belgian cub scout horror-slasher movie, and would not win Baden-Powell's approval.

July 30, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
It gets lost a bit. A creepy excursion, though.

July 30, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
A dark, twisted ride full of terror, brutality, and ambiguity.

July 5, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Brent McKnight
The Last Thing I See
The poor writing and characterization ruin everything, leaving Cub as nothing more than a middling genre effort.

June 15, 2019 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
Way Too Indie
Young Maurice Luijten brings a convincing disconnection to his character that fits the theory, which, unfortunately, further highlights untapped potential.

February 28, 2019 | Full Review…

Naila Scargill
Exquisite Terror
Cub ends up being a predictable dull mess which simply recreates past films that the director has seen, without any sense of originality or fun.

January 9, 2017 | Full Review…

Alex Lines
Film Inquiry
The film's producers should give audiences a sew-on badge for surviving this.

December 21, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Grant Rollings
The Sun (UK)
Similar in tone to Let The Right One In, it starts slowly and builds into a fantastical and creepy look at childhood.

October 21, 2015 | Full Review…

John Noonan
FILMINK (Australia)