THE HORDE La Horde 2010 International Fantasy Film Award at Fantasporto 2010 SCI FI Jury Award at Gérardmer Film Festival Festival Selection: Venice International Film Festival (2009), Frightfest (2009) North American Premiere Action/Horror/Thriller France, 2010 In French with English subtitles 35mm/Scope/2.35/Color/Dolby Digital/102 min Directed by: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher Written by: Arnaud Bordas, Yannick Dahan, Stéphane Moissakis, Benjamin Rocher Cinematography by: Julien Meurice Editing by: Dimitri Amar Music by: Christopher Lennertz Produced by: Raphaël Rocher, Xavier Gens Production Company: Capture the Flag Films Coproduction: Le Pacte International Sales: Films Distribution 34, rue du Louvre 75001 Paris France Phone: +33 1.53.10.33.99 www.filmsdistribution.com U.S. Distribution IFC Films 11 Penn Plaza, 18th floor New York, NY 10001 www.ifcfilms.com Cast: Claude Perron (Aurore), Jean-Pierre Martins (Ouessem), Eriq Ebouaney (Adewale), Aurélien Recoing (Jimenez), Doudou Masta (Bola), Antoine Oppenheim (Tony), Jo Prestia (José), Yves Pignot (René), Alain Figlarz (The Janitor), Sébastien Peres (Seb), Laurent Demianoff (Kim), Stéphane Orsolani (The Wrestler) www.lahorde-lefilm.com Mourning the loss of a fallen colleague, Aurore (Claude Perron, Chrysalis, Cortex (COL•COA 2008), Amélie), Ouessem (Jean-Pierre Martins, La Vie en Rose (COL•COA 2007), Empire of the Wolves) and their team are determined to take their revenge on the criminals who killed him. But when they assault the apartment building where the gangsters are hiding, they are attacked by a horde of zombies. Understanding that the only way to survive is to become allies, the police officers fight side by side with Jimenez (Aurélien Recoing, Counter Investigation (COL•COA 2008) 13 Tzameti), Adewale (Eriq Ebouaney, Transporter 3, Hitman) and their gang to kill the deadly creatures. Using the zombie genre as a vessel, The Horde is a political and social film about violence, injustice and racism in contemporary society. BENJAMIN ROCHER directed his first animation short film in 1999. Titled HominusRex Creator, it was broadcast on Canal Satellite, TPS and HBO. After a second short, Ticket Land (2002), he co-founded the television production company Empreinte Digitale in 2003. He has produced various commercials and programs with YANNICK DAHAN, including Opération Frisson, a popular program about genre films. They also produced Suck My Geek (2007), the first French documentary about geek culture. Dahan and Rocher then co-founded the film production company Capture the Flag Films in 2007, which produced Rivoallan, a short they co-wrote and directed. The Horde is their first feature as writer-directors. Yannick Dahan has been a film critic and editor for the magazine Positif since 1997. He writes for Mad Movies, HK and Orient Extrême Cinéma PRESS "The Horde is very much at the premium end of the quality scale. Like its kindred Gallic spirits, Switchblade Romance, Martyrs and Frontier(s) (whose director Xavier Gens served as executive producer on this film), The Horde is another example of the French investing high production values to reinvent horror for a modern audience, here producing a pacy, exciting and gory romp into the world of the undead." Toby Weidmann, Screenjabber "Subtext be damned" is the clarion call of Gaul's first zombie movie, "The Horde," which keeps the pedal pretty close to the metal throughout... Genre addicts should respond in fast playoff and on ancillary." Derek Elley, Variety.