Changelog

Is there anything better than French movies with Iroquois ninjas, Papal assasins (posing as whores), secret religious sects, bone-sword wielding nobels, and romance? Set during the French revolution? No, I don’t think there is! Ok, so maybe there are better things in life than Le Pacte des loups, but this movie is so much fun to watch (especially after watching The Scorpion King) that I get a bit excited.

I thought this quote (from a user comment on IMDb) put it very well:

Categorising ‘Le Pacte des Loups’ would be tricky, but I’ll try. Its a period costume horror martial-arts werewolf movie and surprisingly all those pieces work together provided you don’t concentrate too hard. Why no one has previously made a period costume horror martial-arts werewolf movie before is a mystery, but I expect plenty of imitations in the future.

It also has some of the best martial-arts scenes in any movie in years (that I’ve seen), and by far the best slow-motion mud splatters in cinema.