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Hunter Hunter
Canada 2020
produced by Neil Elman, Juliette Hagopian, Shawn Linden, Peter Bevan (executive), Hannah Pillemer (executive), Mariana Sanjurjo (executive), Fernando Szew (executive), Tony Vassiliadis (executive), Jennifer Westin (executive), Tomás Yankelevich (executive) for Julijette, MarVista Entertainment, Particular Crowd
directed by Shawn Linden
starring Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa, Nick Stahl, Gabriel Daniels, Lauren Cochrane, Jade Michael, Erik Athavale, Karl Thordarson, Blake Taylor, Sarah Constible (voice)
written by Shawn Linden, music by Kevon Cronin, visual effects supervisor: Darren Wall
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Fur trapper Joseph (Devon Sawa) lives deep in the woods with his
family, more or less cut off from civilisation, and while his wife Anne
(Camille Sullivan) urges him to move back to the city (or at least some
kind of human settlement), his daughter Renee (Summer H. Howell) is an
eager students of the arts of trapping and skinning animals and something
like his natural successor. Then though a wolf invades Joseph's hunting
grounds, a wolf that Joseph labels particularly mean and who he thinks
bears a grudge against him. So to keep his family safe, he sets out to
kill the wolf ... and basically disappears. After a day and a half, Anne
reports his disappearance to the authorities - who are less than eager to
help her as the area where Joseph has gone missing is much to vast to
search without proper manpower, plus they question whether his hunt for a
wolf is even justified as the wolf's in his natural habitat. So Anne and
Renee go on a search of their own, and find not Joseph, but a stranger,
Lou (Nick Stahl), who's baldly injured, but they nurse him back to health.
Thing is, Lou isn't really the nice guy he has initially pretended to be
but a dangerous psycho who soon puts mother and daughter at his mercy ... Now
generally speaking, I'm not a movie watcher who needs to have everything
explained away, especially within the realm of horror - but unfortunately,
Hunter Hunter leaves its plot a bit too unclear and thus open for
interpretation. And this in turn denies the movie its proper buildup of
tension and robs it of much-needed suspense - which is a shame, really, as
the film has its moments of greatness (especially the finale), its fair
share of decent jump scares, it makes great use of its wilderness
backdrops, and brings just the right gruesomeness to the proceedings. And
with a better structured screenplay, it could have been great, too.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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