The HellHole of the Pacific

A “Piscola Films” FILM
WRITTEN BY Mauricio Barra

1830s. Kororareka has become the largest European settlement and whaling port in New Zealand. It is known as "the Hellhole of the pacific", for being a lawless town with an infamous reputation for harbouring a vast number of scoundrels from all over the world. Prostitution, fights, drunkenness and death are a common part of the local scene.

Frank Barker, a retired soldier, lives there with his young Maori wife Airini. He owns one of the grog shops in town and is ready to receive all the thirsty rogues on there way for the upcoming whaling season.

After the arrival of an European ship to port the same night a woman dies in gruesome circumstances by what strangely seems to be a wild beast. No one gets involved and more attacks follow in the next few days.

The town is terrified and one of the missionaries, Joel Gibson, asks Frank to intervene, he reluctantly accepts.

That evening Frank engages in a quarrel with Anton Gevaudan, a French escaped convict who was causing troubles in his Grog shop, the Frenchman leaves threatening to have revenge.

Later that night while sleeping at home, Frank is woken up by his brother in law Kamaka as the Grog shop is on fire. They put the fire out and go back home just to find Airini brutally devoured by the beast.

Devastated, Frank along with Kamaka decide to take justice in their own hands and hunt the creature down... the tension increases when all the roads lead them to discover that what they are really searching for is a werewolf, a vicious creature Frank already met before, Gevaudan...

Can a nasty place like this get even worse?

A violent suspence/horror story, based on original old European myths to make it the ultimate werewolf film to date.