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Kris (Titus De Voogdt), Peter (Stef Aerts) and Jasmijn (Evelien
Bosmans) are taking a group of boyscouts, all about 12 years of age, into
the woods for a week or so of camping, and thinks it's a fun idea to freak
the little ones out a little by telling them about the werewolf boy who's
supposed to haunt the woods, Kai - which is only a urban legend for all
they know, but it rings especially true with one of the scouts, Sam
(Maurice Luijten), a problem child with an overly active imagination, who
every now and again drifts off into the woods on his own to track down Kai
- much to the dismay of Peter, who is not really all that much into
children and has come along on the trip mainly to get into Jasmijn's
panties, being fully aware that she's Kris's girlfriend - and he succeeds,
too - something Sam witnesses by accident and is bitten by Peter's dog as
a consequence. And now Peter's really mad at him ... Of course, what
Peter and nobody else but Sam knows is that Kai (Gill Eeckelaert) is not a
myth but actually living in these woods (though he's not a werewolf), and
somehow he has become friends with Sam, and later that night he abducts
Peter's dog and beats him to a pulp together with Sam, who doesn't even
want to at first but gets carried away with a sort of bloodlust. When
Peter finds Sam over the body of his dead dog, he grows totally mad ...
but then all hell breaks loose, and no, it's not Kai (who's actually just
another 12 year old who's constantly wearing a mask), but ... good
question, but suffice to say the forest is full of crude but effective
death traps, and the guy who controls them lives in an underground bunker
and is sort of the mentor of Kai ... and he's adamant to not let anyone of
the whole scout group leave alive ... Welp is a fun
movie, there's no doubt about that, the death trap machinations alone are
hilarious and wonderful, plus the film's extremely well-paced, and violent
at all the right moments, with a certain level of irony too that never
gets in the way of the horror bits though. And that said, the film's far
from perfect, for one, Sam's characterisation is lacking, which becomes
apparent especially in the finale - which by the way makes little sense.
On top of that, while I'm not a big fan of elaborate backstories to
obscure the narrative at hand, Welp overdoes it with not having any
backstory at all, who the main baddie is, what Kai is to him, why he's got
an underground bunker and all these death traps is never really explained.
And while that doesn't matter that much while the film's on, it just
leaves an empty aftertaste, also because it might help in understanding
the rather illogical ending. Don't get me wrong, Welp is an
exhilarating little movie still ... it just could have profited from some
extra thought put into the script.
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