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Movie: Le pacte des loups (2001)

• Director: Christophe Gans
• Release Date: 30 May 2002 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: Stéphane Cabel (original scenario) Stéphane Cabel (adaptation) …  
• Run Time: 142 min | 152 min (director's cut)
• Country: France
• Genre: Action , History , Horror , Mystery  
• MPAA: Rated R for strong violence and gore, and sexuality/nudity.

Trivia: Apparently in the belief that no one outside France has any sense of history, the translators writing subtitles omitted a historical reference in old d’Apcher’s memoir. The subtitles read, “The Revolution has swept the land,” but in French he says, “The Revolution has become the Terror” (this may have been changed in some DVD versions).
 

Goofs: Continuity: The body of the young woman which is used as bait for the wolf is that of the shepherdess (the lady with the goat), who isn’t killed until about an hour later in the movie. (The shepherdess scene was originally shot to take place much earlier in the film and when it was switched to later, they just hoped no one would notice the body was identical.)
 

“In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A ‘beast’ that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in ‘Star Trek’. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now… Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada). Written by Anonymous”