How much do I love the production design sketches I saw for Franck Richard's upcoming splatter-horror The Pack earlier today? Enough that if Richard decided to do this as animation rather than live action I don't think I'd complain a bit. The good people at Overlook Entertainment showed me a stack of character drawings and while I can't pass all of them along - some would constitute major spoilers - I have got the go ahead to pass along two.

In the middle of a snowy no man’s land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn’t come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max’s mother and needs to feed her kids, « The pack », a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead… and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes… she’s next on the menu.

Philippe Nahon and Yolande Moreau star. Check the drawings at the link below.