Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Pack’

Written by Scott Edwards

Wanting to make a better life for yourself may be easier said than done. You have to have the drive to make things happen and hold on to it, even when things do not go your way. So many people are willing to give up after their first failure and never give it another shot since it might happen again. The people that continue to push for what they want and never give up are the ones that are happiest with the results, since there is nothing that will stop them from their goals.

Adam is having a tough time on the farm as he keeps finding more and more of his sheep being slaughtered. Setting up traps around his property is not enough since his sheep continue to be killed by wolves. Seeing a trap that was sprung, but nothing to show for its effort, he gets a call back to the house since the man from the bank has made his way back out to the property again. With very little to sell, Adam and his family are looking at foreclosure on the house since the bills continue to pile up, and they are not bringing in enough income to keep them down. There is however an offer on the table to buy the farm, but it does not interest Adam in the slightest since he loves the farm.

Adam’s wife Carla and son Henry do not want to move away from the farm either, but his daughter Sophie cannot wait to escape. Wanting to move to the city and start living her own life seems like the best thing for her, even though she is not eighteen yet.  After the family has ended their discussions for the night, the power shuts off forcing Adam to go out and start the generator. Seeing hunting eyes in the woods, Adam knows that there is something savage coming towards the house as a pack of wolves have descended on the area. Needing to keep his family safe, Adam tries to come up with a plan of escape since there is nobody around the farm that can help them, not even the police. As the night grows darker, the wolves become more ferocious and will do anything to get their next meal. All Adam and his family have to do is make it to morning, but it will be a long night as their new guests are not planning on leaving anytime soon.

I really liked how the story played out in this movie, even when Adam became a prime target for the wolves.  His family’s safety is his only priority and everything that he did was to protect them, and I was happy to see he never lost that focus, since sometimes characters do in these types of movies. With no way to really escape, everyone has their own ideas of what to do next, but when the wolves show that they will not be kept out of locked areas that should be safe, all bets are off for the family. I was a little disappointed in the wolves since they only seemed to hunt by sight and sound, no sense of smell I guess which would have made the family much easier to find around the corners. Besides that, the fear that echoes throughout the house is great and I would not like to be in any of these people’s shoes, especially when it comes to being the hunted, not the hunter. Stay Scared.

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