La Horde or The Horde is a French horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, it stars Jean-Pierre Martins

Jean-Pierre Martins

Jean-Pierre Martins is a French actor and musician.-Biography:In 2009 played the lead role in Gregoire Sivan monster movie King Crab Attack! and in the both thriller films The Beast and La horde...

, Eriq Ebouaney

Eriq Ebouaney

Eriq Ebouaney is a French film actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham.-Early...

 and Doudou Masta

Doudou Masta

Mamadou Doumbia is a French hip-hop artist and actor.-Biography:The young Doudou showed an early musical aptitude from the age of six, when he successfully joined France's national youth choir, which has long since been disbanded...

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Plot

The plot revolves around a group of Paris policemen, who embark on a mission of vengeance after one of their colleagues dies by the hands of a notorious drug dealer holed up inside a building. They storm the social housing complex with the intent of taking him down, in the heart of a derelict and corrupt Paris neighborhood. The operation is a failure, and the team is captured. But suddenly, both sides find themselves confronted by a quite different opponent... As a zombie apocalypse breaks out, cops and criminals will have to forge an uneasy alliance to survive the undead.

Cast

• Claude Perron
  Claude Perron
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  as Aurore
• Jean-Pierre Martins
  Jean-Pierre Martins
  Jean-Pierre Martins is a French actor and musician.-Biography:In 2009 played the lead role in Gregoire Sivan monster movie King Crab Attack! and in the both thriller films The Beast and La horde...
  
   as Ouessem
• Eriq Ebouaney
  Eriq Ebouaney
  Eriq Ebouaney is a French film actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham.-Early...
  
   as Adewale Markudi
• Aurélien Recoing as Jimenez
• Doudou Masta
  Doudou Masta
  Mamadou Doumbia is a French hip-hop artist and actor.-Biography:The young Doudou showed an early musical aptitude from the age of six, when he successfully joined France's national youth choir, which has long since been disbanded...
  
   as Bola Markudi
• Antoine Oppenheim as Tony
• Jo Prestia as Greco
• Bucky Schuyler as Dolph
• Yves Pignot as René
• Adam Pengsawang as Le Tchèque
• Sébastien Peres as Seb
• Laurent Demianoff as Kim
• Alain Figlarz as Le concierge
• Stéphane Orsolani as Lutteur
• Ali Karamoko as Ali
• Maud Heywang as Quadra
• Marie Vincentas Hélène
• Mohamed Kerriche as Halim
• Vincent Haquin as Homme massé
• Laurent Segall as Rivoallan
• Emmanuel Lanzi as Zombie
• Virginie Arnaud as Zombie
• Cristina Da Silva as Zombie
• Jean-François Lénogue
  Jean-François Lenogue
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   as Zombie
• Patrick Vo as Zombie
• Olivier Sa as Zombie
• Michaël Troude as Zombie
• Dan Schwarz as Zombie
• Alain Barbier as Zombie
• Frédéric Dessains as Zombie
• Thierry Saelens as Zombie
• David Genty as Zombie
• Malki Attar as Zombie
• Sèbastien Soudai as Zombie
• Sébastien Labie as Zombie
• Mickael Estephe as Zombie
• Cédric Boyer as Zombie
• Yannick Dahanas Zombie
• Bruce Henrionnet as Zombie
• Gauthier Lamothe as Zombie
• Jack Curry
  Jack Curry
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   as Zombie
• Benjamin Rocher as Teacher's Head
• Pierre Zéni as Mourner at funeral

Production

La horde was shot in Paris, France in 2008 and released in 2009. The film was released in North America in 2010.

Reception

La horde won two Garner awards for the Best Screenplay and Best Special Effects or Cinematography at Fantasporto Film Festival

Fantasporto

Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging from...

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Release

The film premiered on August 28, 2009 in London as part of the London FrightFest Film Festival

London FrightFest Film Festival

FrightFest is an annual film festival held in central London over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The first event was held in the year 2000....

. It had a cinema release with 200 screens in France on February 10, 2010. In December 2009 IFC Films acquired the rights for the U.S. release. It was part of the Sitges Film Festival in 2009. The film had a limited U.S. theatrical release in August 2010.