brilliant actors, brilliant editing

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

A nicely produced horror which further disseminates the image, myths and fears concerning the backwoods of the Ardennes and the Liègeois countryside. Although horror cinema (in the conventional sense) is unusual for Belgium, this is a great addition to the genre.Jonas Govaerts does an excellent job in establishing and then developing the film to its strange conclusion. The young cast, the excellent cinematography and the effective thrills mix very well together. The talented Govaerts manages to provide further enriching elements to the film in addition to the use of boy scouts, the wild young thing and master.

Nice to see, another nice good Belgium movie after ''BLACK'' and "Sl8n8" and "LOFT 2008 original''. A few years ago, I mentioned that Belgium and the Netherlands should work together for better movies. Nice to see, that my country Belgium, have founded another way. Always, was the problem: money. Glad to see, we have now again a good Belgium horror. In the past, we even had a few gory splatter-movies. This horror movie focus mostly on character's building-up. Instead of only GORE and blood. Nevertheless, a little more blood and gore was welcome, to increase more the scary parts. It has indeed it's scary moments. There where 2 great action moments, where the music did kick-in. I've loved these moments + good music. Reminded me on those ''Halloween'' movies. Specially with that young girl of Michael Myers. Also here, 2 dead where original. So nice bonus. It's still not perfect, but for a more reasonable budget, Belgium did it's best AGAIN. Maybe it needs only more sponsors ??? Our latest movies are WAY better, than those from the Netherlands itself. Our next star movie: "BLACK 2015". Happens in Brussels.

To begin this review , I must say that taking into consideration that this was the director's feature film debut , he did extremely well. The direction was the best thing about this film. Now , the issue of this film comes from it's script.It lacked focus. The story is simple enough : 12 year Sam goes camping , he his bullied by the other scouts and even by one of the scoutmaster (And his evil dog!) . When Sam tries to warn everybody that he saw a character from an Urban legend , Kai (an animal/boy who eats people) he his laughed at so Sam ends up developing a rather strange and disturbing relationship with Kai that would turn this Camping trip into a living nightmare! So the story is fairly straightforward as you can see but the issue is the writers felt necessary to add small layers/subplot to it that makes it more complex then it should. I can go on to much details or I will spoil the films.Let just say that the director gave Sam a mysterious background that raises a lot of questions but none of them are answered by the end of the film. For me ,personally, Cub is very good up to it's last 10 minutes.Great atmosphere, great direction,great acting by it's lead actor but the above issue I have with the film gives us an ending that leaves things to the viewers imagination. Your personal enjoyment of that film will come to this at the end : If you like to have a clear ending to your film , I am afraid you will be disappointed by Cub but if you are the type of person that loves a film to end in an ambiguous sort of way I believe you would find much to like in that film. Outside of this , Cub do a lot of things right. So if you are up for a very dark little film that has a very strong and shocking yet confusing ending you could do much worse then this trip to the wood. I give Cub a 6 out of 10

I followed the movie from the time they said they were going to make it and was really happy when it came out, but now i just have a 'meh...' feeling about it. The end of the movie feels like it either needs a sequel or a prequel. I have so many questions, why is the boy (sam) so weird, why is the other boy so 'brainwashed', why does the guy kill and make those traps, what happened with the 2 boys that made the hole in the truck? The story is fine, but i feel like they could have done more with it. There were a few flaws in the movie, but non that made the movie bad.It's not a bad movie it just needs a bit more backstory. In my opinion a prequel would be the best solution to make this a really great movie, because no i have a feeling everyone is thinking a lot of the same questions...