The horde
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The horde |
| Original title | La Horde |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 97:32 minutes (uncut) 91:22 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 (cut) unchecked (uncut) JMK unchecked |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Yannick Dahan Benjamin Rocher |
| script |
Arnaud Bordas Yannick Dahan Stéphane Moïssakis Benjamin Rocher |
| production | Raphaël Rocher |
| music | Christopher Lennertz |
| camera | Julien Meurice |
| cut | Dimitri Amar |
| occupation | |
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The Horde (OT: La Horde ) is a French horror / action film from 2009. The zombie film was directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher .
action
After the murder of the police officer Mathias Rivoallan by a gang of gang members around the Adewale brothers, known as "Ade", and Bola, his colleagues decide to avenge the murder. The four of them break into a high-rise building in a Parisian banlieue . Among them Jimenez, Aurore, who is expecting a child from the victim, Ouessem and Tony. But the gangsters surprise the police officers and seriously wound Jimenez and Tony before Ade finally kills Jimenez. When they want to execute the other police officers, however, a prisoner previously killed by Bola storms the room, which has mutated into a superhuman zombie. Except for Greco, Ade's other accomplices fall victim to the zombie. When Ade finally kills the zombie with a shotgun , his bitten accomplices also mutate into zombies. The survivors manage to escape to the roof. There they find out that all of Paris is now populated by zombies.
The dissimilar group, after some discussion, decides to work together. Back in the skyscraper, the group is split in two by zombies. While Ade, Ouessem, Bola and Greco, who was bitten in the attack, meet the war veteran René, Aurore and Tony now struggle alone. René reveals to the group of four the only way to deal with the bitten person: amputation. Greco rejects this. The group decides to go down through the elevator shaft. Meanwhile, Tony beats Aurore, who wanted to shoot him, because he was bitten by a zombie and is slowly mutating. After she wakes up, she follows Tony. The two meet up again at the elevator shaft. Tony is shot in the head by Aurore without hesitation, which leads to a conflict between Ouessem and her.
Greco, meanwhile, succeeds in sowing discord between Ade and Bola. He and Bola overwhelm and disarm the rest of the group at the end of the shaft and flee into the underground car park. The rest of the group rearm themselves in the janitor's armory. Eventually the zombies break through the entrance. The group flees to the underground car park. There Ade has to watch how the mutated zombie Greco eats his brother and kills his former companion. Meanwhile, the zombies storm the underground car park. Ouessem decides to stay to give the group a head start. While he fights alone against a whole horde of zombies and dies heroically, Aurore, Ade and René flee through the narrow corridors to the exit, pursued by a large crowd of zombies. René eventually sacrifices himself by blowing up himself and the zombies with a grenade. Aurore and Ade manage to escape outside.
When Ade mourns his brother, Aurore shoots him in the back of the head. While she looks down at the corpse, you can hear an approaching zombie character in the background.
background
The Horde was conceived by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher as an action film rather than a zombie film. The directors took inspiration from 1980s action films, especially from Conan the Barbarian , who inspired the showdown between Ouessem and the eponymous zombie horde. In the making of they distance themselves from the zombie films by George A. Romero and express themselves proudly about having cast roles with actors of African origin, which they say would happen far too rarely in French films. The film's actors were also impressed by Claude Perron's performance , who was the only woman in the film to steal the show from her male colleagues.
Frames
A German-language version of Die Horde was shown as part of the Fantasy Filmfest Nights on March 20, 2010 in Berlin. An abridged version was released on May 18, 2010 via Kinowelt on DVD and on July 1, 2010 as Blu-Ray . The version differs from the French original version by six minutes and has been shortened by several scenes of violence and dialogue. On July 1, 2010, an unchecked version of the film was released in Austria, which has four minutes more action than the French first release and is uncut in the scenes of violence. In 2012 the unabridged version of the film was put on the index. In October 2013, the film was then judicially examined and then confiscated nationwide in accordance with Section 131 StGb. In January 2014, the right holder StudioCanal successfully proceeded against the court order and was able to lift the seizure. However, the film remains indexed on List A of the media harmful to minors. In France, the country of production, however, the film received an age rating of 12 and over for theatrical release.
criticism
Despite the distance between Romero and zombie films in general in the making of, several critics drew parallels with modern zombie films, including 28 Days Later and the Romero remake Dawn of the Dead . The modern French horror film wave about Martyrs , Inside and Frontier (s) was mentioned again and again in the reviews - do you know your pain threshold? . Xavier Gens , director of the latter, also worked here as a producer. From the critics' point of view, however, the film drew its greatest inspiration from John Carpenter's Assault , as the basic plot (two hostile groups must work together to face a common enemy) and the boundaries of the space are very similar. Despite great advance praise, the film was only recommended for genre friends:
“La Horde” swims with the trend of the tough French horror wave, but disappoints with a lack of ideas and an uninspired figure drawing. Only fans of splatter film could be addressed by Yannick Dahans and Benjamin Rocher's largely meaningless and ideologically questionable slaughter plate. "
Web links
- The Horde in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions No youth approval - Unchecked , French version - Austrian version of Die Horde at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The Horde - Making of , DVD by Kinowelt, 2010
- ^ The Horde in the online film database
- ↑ The Horde: Comparison No Youth Approval - Unchecked. Schnittberichte.com, accessed July 28, 2011 .
- ^ The Horde: Comparison of the French version and the Austrian version. Schnittberichte.com, accessed July 28, 2011 .
- ^ Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée: LA HORDE: Fiche oeuvre. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (French): "Interdiction aux mineurs -12ans avec avertissement"
- ^ Jörg Hesse: Blu-ray review - The Horde. Splashmovies.de, accessed on July 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Daniel Licha: The Horde. MovieMaze.de, accessed on July 28, 2011 .
- ^ Stefan Rybkowski: La Horde. Manifest - the film magazine, accessed on July 28, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Florian Koch: The Horde> Film Starts Criticism. Filmstarts.de, accessed on July 28, 2011 .