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Robin's (Rachel Nichols) grandfather Karl (Jeremy London) has died and
has left her his hunting lodge deep in Germany's Black Forest, and so
Robin and her husband Leo (Yohance Myles) decide to pay the place a visit,
even though Robin doesn't remember her times with her granddad in the
woods too fondly, as they were all about hunting and killing, and at one
point granddad even had her eat the eye of a stag - which was one of the
reasons why her dad moved to the USA back when she was still young. In the
woods, Robin and Karl stumble upon Karl's good friend Arthur (Miles
Doleac), a hunter just like grandfather, and just like grandfacher he has
a daughter, Amalia (Rachel Ryals), whom he teaches in hunting and killing.
And then suddenly Robin and Leo, Arthur and Amalia, and Russian tourist
Katya (Tatiana Piper) and prostitute Tabitha (Manon Pages) all find
themselves chained to trees, to soon be confronted by a trio of witches
(Lindsay Anne Williamns, Elena Sanchez, Sarah Fisher) and their grotesque
strongman (Christian Stokes), where they are informed that they have been
chosen as prey for their demon god Cernunnos (Chima Chekwa), who is a
hunter out of passion. And when our heroes are released into the woods in
randomly chosen pairs, it soon shows who's got what it takes to survive -
and for whom survival of the fittest means sacrificing others ...
Now I have to admit, the mythological undercurrents of this
movie are not as wholly fleshed out as one might like them - but that
really hardly matters, as it's much more the story itself that matters
here, and the action resulting from it, than any backstories, and the film
sure is fast-paced enough to keep one engaged throughout, while actual
care is taken to make the key characters into more than just cannonfodder,
all resulting in a pretty cool piece of genre entertainment.
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