Hunter Hunter

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Hunter Hunter

R

2020

1h 33m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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HUNTER HUNTER follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in the act, Joseph leaves his family behind to track the wolf. Anne and Renée grow increasingly anxious during Joseph’s prolonged absence and struggle to survive without him. When they hear a strange noise outside their cabin, Anne hopes it is Joseph but instead finds a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.

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Critics Consensus

Bloody and brutal, Hunter Hunter is a hard-hitting survivalist thriller that ratchets its tension with precision.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

01/04/2021

4/5

When that needle drop ends, souls have been broken. That's what makes Hunter Hunter an extraordinary entry in the modern horror canon.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

12/31/2020

2.5/4

Though more meat is needed on its narrative bones, Shawn Linden's backwoods horror creepfest is a mean-spirited parable about finding out who the ultimate monster is - beast or man?

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

12/22/2020

It's a very spare slow-burn, and [writer-director] Sean Lindon achieves a lot here... I was impressed by this little movie.

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Jessica Scott

Nightmarish Conjurings

10/17/2022

Redefining the big bad wolf, this gut punch of a film is suspenseful, unnerving, and brutal.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/17/2022

4/5

“Hunter Hunter” is a movie that quietly lures you in by building an interesting family dynamic worth investing in. The characters feel authentic which makes their tense and eventually frightening story resonate.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

07/11/2021

B+

Sneaks up on viewers with strong writing and a deliberate choice to not take it easy the participants in this suspenseful movie.

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Mads J

@Socialistens Apr 14

Had to sign up to write a review, since the rating is the most misleading I have ever seen! Family living in the woods for ... decades? Mom, dad, teenage daughter. Dad is an "expert hunter". Mom is scared of all animals/everything, and hates killing them to eat, after having spent at least 13 years in the forest, and hates living there! Mom does not know that wolves very very rarely attacks humans, neither does the expert hunter it seems! Daughter likes it more, but also does not seem to have adapted to killing animals, after living in the forest all her life! Random people playing around in the remote forest, get the short end of the stick. Dad says nothing when something VERY relevant comes up! Mom suddenly turns 180 degrees, at the very end. This movie makes 0 sense, half a star for the forest.

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Alvin T

@Alvin242 Mar 5

I went in thinking ok its free, so I will give it a try. Surprised me that it kept me interested the whole time, some areas might have slowed down but not for long. Unique story and I see why it was defined as a horror, not a fan of most horrors but I liked this one.

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Melissa W.

@Grammar5 Feb 22

Terrible! This movie is bummer!

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J S

@Jamberry Feb 7

Looks like I am a rare viewer who did not appreciate this movie. It’s well made, well acted, gripping, and engaging story, until the last 20 minutes where it goes seriously off the rails. Be warned, it’s not the movie you think it is, for better or worse.

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Cindy L.

@clove224 Jan 31

It’s different than its horror/thriller contemporaries . The movie does a great job of setting up the plot twist and when happens it’s fast and furious from then on. Trigger warning The ending is brutal and not for those who are sensitive to gory scenes. For those who can and do watch this film it’s worth it.

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Giorgio G

@GioBlob Jan 21

A pretty good flick of which I had never heard of before today. It starts off a bit slow, but then brings together various story threads to build up into an incredibly macabre crescendo. A bit heavy stuff at the end for the fainthearted, but all in all really cool for a low-budget movie. 7/10 points!

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HUNTER HUNTER follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in the act, Joseph leaves his family behind to track the wolf. Anne and Renée grow increasingly anxious during Joseph’s prolonged absence and struggle to survive without him. When they hear a strange noise outside their cabin, Anne hopes it is Joseph but instead finds a man named Lou (Nick Stahl), who has been severely injured and left for dead. The longer Lou stays and Joseph is away, the more paranoid Anne becomes, and the idea of a mysterious predator in the woods slowly becomes a threat much closer to home.

Director: Shawn Linden
Producer: Neil Elman, Juliette Hagopian, Shawn Linden
Screenwriter: Shawn Linden
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: MarVista Entertainment, Particular Crowd, Julijette
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 18, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 18, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.2K
Runtime: 1h 33m