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The Hair of the Beast

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The Hair of the Beast
FrenchLe Poil de la bète
Directed byPhilippe Gagnon
Written byPierre Daudelin
Stéphane J. Bureau
Produced byRéal Chabot
StarringGuillaume Lemay-Thivierge
Gilles Renaud
Patrice Robitaille
Viviane Audet
CinematographySteve Asselin
Edited byIsabelle Malenfant
Music byMartin Roy
Production
company
Les Films du Boulevard
Distributed byChristal Films
Release date
  • October 1, 2010 (2010-10-01)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.

Production

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The film went into production in fall 2009.[3]

It was originally announced as the first part of a trilogy,[4] with the other two films to be titled Les enfants de chienne and La mort aux dents,[3] although the sequels never materialized.[1]

Awards

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André Duval received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Hair at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Poil de la bête, Le – Film de Philippe Gagnon". Films du Québec, September 1, 2010.
  2. ^ André Duchesne, "Le poil de la bête : des loups-garous en Nouvelle-France". La Presse, September 25, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Mario Cloutier, "Le poil de la bête : gare aux loups !". La Presse, November 7, 2009.
  4. ^ Geneviève Vézina-Montplaisir, "Le poil de la bête: Le début d'une trilogie". Métro, November 4, 2009.
  5. ^ Marc Cassivi, "Soirée des Jutra: Incendies, favori d'un cru relevé". La Presse, February 9, 2011.
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