Humains 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 from Pierre-Olivier Thévenin and Jacques-Olivier Molon. The film stars Sara Forestier

Sara Forestier

Sara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. She began her film career in 2001 and received a César Award for Most Promising Actress in Games of Love and Chance...

, Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon

Dominique Pinon is a French actor whose most famous roles have been in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Jacques Beineix. In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli and Valère Novarina...

 and Philippe Nahon

Philippe Nahon

-Biography:Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible .-Filmography...

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Plot

A French research team travels to the Swiss Alps to investigate a discovery. After a car accident, the group becomes lost in the mountains with a group of tourists and struggle to survive while being hunted by mysterious figures.

Cast

• Lorànt Deutsch as Thomas
• Sara Forestier
  Sara Forestier
  Sara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. She began her film career in 2001 and received a César Award for Most Promising Actress in Games of Love and Chance...
  
   as Nadia
• Dominique Pinon
  Dominique Pinon
  Dominique Pinon is a French actor whose most famous roles have been in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Jacques Beineix. In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli and Valère Novarina...
  
   as Gildas
• Manon Tournier as Elodie
• Élise Otzenberger as Patricia
• Philippe Nahon
  Philippe Nahon
  -Biography:Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible .-Filmography...
  
   as Schneider
• Christian Kmiotek as Paulo

Production

The film was shot in late 2008 in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and the Swiss Alps

Swiss Alps

The Swiss Alps are the portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Because of their central position within the entire Alpine range, they are also known as the Central Alps....

 under the working title of "Les Disparus de Lötschental". Yolande Moreau

Yolande Moreau

Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedienne, actress and film director.-Biography:She has won two César Awards for Best Actress, in 2005 for When the Sea Rises and in 2009 for Séraphine....

 was originally cast in the lead role as the character Charlotte, but she left the project. As a result, the character's role was changed and became Sara Forestier

Sara Forestier

Sara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. She began her film career in 2001 and received a César Award for Most Promising Actress in Games of Love and Chance...

's character, Nadia.

Release

The film premiered on 6 February 2009 as part of the European Film Market in Germany and was part of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival on 11 April 2009. The French cinema release was on 22 April 2009.

Reception

The film grossed only $236,617 in its opening week in France and was universally panned by critics. It is the only film to be reviewed on nanarland.com in its first week.