| The Hair of the Beast | |
|---|---|
| French | Le Poil de la bète |
| Directed by | Philippe Gagnon |
| Written by | Pierre Daudelin Stéphane J. Bureau |
| Produced by | Réal Chabot |
| Starring | Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge Gilles Renaud Patrice Robitaille Viviane Audet |
| Cinematography | Steve Asselin |
| Edited by | Isabelle Malenfant |
| Music by | Martin Roy |
Production company | Les Films du Boulevard |
| Distributed by | Christal Films |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
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.