Thursday, 11 May 2023

The Beast of Gévaudan

A restored director's cut of Christophe Gans' 2001 fantasy film Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups) is released on Blue-ray and DVD from May 15th and on AppleTV+.  

The film is (very loosely) based on the story of the "Beast of  Gévaudan", which spread terror in south-central France between 1764 and 1767 -  reputedly killing over 100 people. 


The swashbuckling thrills of Brotherhood of the Wolf (lwlies.com)

I have seen this film, though I don't remember much about it.

The principal study of the Beast is Jay M. Smith's Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast. Harvard University Press (2011).  Reviewed by Robert Darnton:  The Wolf Man's Revenge | Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com).

See also: The Real Story of the Beast of Gévaudan (museumhack.com)


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