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A horror comedy. Alright. BUT STILL. Horror hinged on whodunit intrigue sustains the cat-and-mouse chase of unidentifiable slashers or creatures of unknown origins. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll glimpse a hybrid of
Killer Thriller HUNTER HUNTER Hits Blu-ray & DVD 6/22
Scream Factory will unleash Shawn Linden s #HunterHunter with Devon Sawa, Camille Sullivan, and Nick Stahl on Blu-ray and DVD on June 22nd. By Mike Sprague
Scream Factory will unleash writer-director Shawn Linden’s
Hunter Hunter with Devon Sawa, Camille Sullivan, and Nick Stahl on Blu-ray and DVD on June 22nd.
No special features are listed. But you can check out the killer cover art below.
Hunter Hunter follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault, his wife Anne, and their daughter Renée 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. Then they he
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Hunter Hunter is one of those films that once you see it, the ending will haunt you for a while. With the
Hunter Hunter ending, director Shawn Linden has added a very worthy entry into the traumatizing and disturbing film endings hall of fame.
Hunter Hunter stars Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa, Summer H. Howell, and Nick Stahl. and follows a fur trapper Joseph âJoeâ Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renee (Summer H. Howell) as the danger of a wolf looms on their quiet wilderness life. Eventually, Anne and Renee find a wounded stranger, Lou (Nick Stahl), who they nurse back to health. The film is a cross between a survivalist movie and a horror flick. Even before the
The most traumatizing sound in a horror movie is not a a broken bone, or a gushing wound. It s the sound of a soul breaking. That s what made the most brilliant and disturbing films of the 1970s – films like
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,
I Spit on Your Grave, and
The Last House on the Left – so impactful. It s a keening wail, a silent inhalation, the stomach drop of knowing that the characters who survive will never be whole again. That nightmarish realization is what separates the brilliantly brutal and truly shocking
Hunter Hunter from many of its contemporaries.
The surgical deployment of a needle drop from Danish post-psychedelic gothsters Tales of Murder and Dust is the moment that seals it for Shawn Linden s story of the destruction of a family by outside forces. That s exactly what father Joe Mersault (Sawa, grizzled and gristly) was trying to avoid when he took his family out into the backwoods to become a fur trader. His wife, Anne (Sullivan), knew what she sign