The Hair of the Beast (2010)

Original title

Le poil de la bête

Directed by

Philippe Gagnon

Genre

horror film, adventure film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1660s New France, a man on the run from the death penalty poses as a Jesuit priest. He falls for a woman no one else will marry and discovers he must fight werewolves terrorizing the town.

comediclightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedspookyromanticquirkyadventurous

What happens

The Hair of the Beast (French: Le Poil de la bête) is a Canadian comedy horror film, directed by Philippe Gagnon and released in 2010. Set in colonial New France in the 1660s, the film stars Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge as Joseph Côté, a man who has escaped from prison after being sentenced to death for a crime; hiding out in Beauport after taking on the identity of a Jesuit priest, he falls in love with Marie Labotte (Viviane Audet), a fille du roy whom nobody else wants to marry, while simultaneously discovering that he is the only one who can battle the werewolves who terrorize the community at night. The cast also includes Gilles Renaud, Patrice Robitaille, Antoine Bertrand, Marc Beaupré, Marie-Chantal Perron, Sébastien Huberdeau, Mirianne Brûlé, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Martin Dubreuil, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Patrick Drolet, Benoît McGinnis, Michel Barrette, Isabeau Blanche, Étienne Pilon and Virginie Morin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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