CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER Review: Lurid Truth or a Lie of the Mind?
By
Paul Grammatico
In many vampire films, the story usually takes place in a desolate castle or manor where a visitor has to travel several miles and, at times, over terrible terrain to visit the Count or some aristocratic equivalent. With large great rooms and cobwebbed corridors, the aristocrat uses his charms in order to stave off mortality by drinking the blood of others. A doctor or scientist convinces the other upper crust to eliminate the menace that surrounds them.
The Climate of the Hunter, a film produced by Perm Machine and distributed by Dark Star Pictures, shatters this environment and provides a different, albeit lurid atmosphere in a nearly abandoned area of vacation cottages during a mild winter.