DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

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We wanted THE BRUTE to be a horror film. But the monster wasn’t cooperative. Now it’s something else.

We grew up with stories of lake monsters, bedtime fears, and images of the Other – the Strange – as something lurking beneath. In THE BRUTE, we have tried to playfully trace how these fears develop: from childhood myths to adult narrative strategies in society and politics. 

Our protagonists want to make a horror film about the myth of a creature. But the creature they meet — hairy, voiceless, stubbornly still — resists being turned into a stereotypical metaphor. It just... exists. And in that silent resistance, something essential is revealed: fear is not always about what stands before us, but about what we bring to the encounter — especially when the monster is absent.

The film unfolds in layers and through different media: Super 8 material meets smartphone footage and failed cinematic attempts. THE BRUTE plays with genres and expectations, subverting them at every turn — a sketch, a document, a riddle. What begins as found footage becomes a pseudo-documentary, then a failed genre film — and, even during the closing credits, something else entirely. The film transforms as it is being watched, deconstructing and reconstructing itself with each new layer.

THE BRUTE invites us to be afraid not of what we see, but of our compulsion to explain it.​​