‘Everyone must find their pack’
Wolfkin is a 2022 Luxembourgian horror film about a single mother who realises her son has a dark destiny that she must resist.
Directed by Jacques Molitor from a screenplay co-written with Régine Abadia and Magali Negroni. Produced by Gilles Chanial and Olivier Dubois.
The Les Films Fauves-Novak Production movie stars Louise Manteau, Victor Dieu, Marja-Leena Junker and Jules Werner.
Plot:
Single mother Elaine (Louise Manteau) is disturbed by her son Martin’s (Victor Dieu) aggressive behaviour and sudden physical changes, she visits his late father’s estranged family in small-town Luxembourg – where a much darker secret lurks. When she realises that Martin could become like them, Elaine is forced into a desperate fight for her son’s future…
Reviews:
“It’s a rich, complicated take on an old gothic tale – arguably, Martin is worse for discovering that he’s an entitled aristocratic bastard than he is when sprouting fur and fangs and gnawing on family friends. The precise set-up that has enabled this dynasty of monstrousness to survive into this century is slowly elucidated – early on, an overheard news item about refugees sets up a later payoff – as Elaine’s sense of fury and injustice builds.” The Kim Newman Web Site
” …effortlessly outlines a way werewolves could survive in modern times. A way that is both gruesome in detail and terrifyingly believable. And all this without ever mentioning the word “werewolf”. The tension in this horror film builds more and more to a blood-curdling climax. You constantly wonder where the boundary lies between what makes someone human and what makes a monster…” Modern Myths [translated from Dutch]
“Wolfkin is certainly a coming-of-age tale as well as an examination of the mother-son bond in extremis, but it is also, in the end, a creature feature, focused on one of the more traditional monsters from the horror pantheon. Yet here, monstrosity has long been embraced and accommodated by the wider community – and so it is used to allegorise the iniquities of Luxembourg’s class system.” Projected Figures
“Wolfkin is an interesting and obligatory film for movie lovers about werewolves, bringing us closer to these creatures in a quite realistic way and far from cinematographic clichés and sensationalism. But that runs both down the road for good and bad, as the film’s pace is slow and relies too much on the least interested viewer not losing the thread of the plot.” Terror Weekend [translated from Spanish]
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