Hunted

Postmodern lense filters Red Robin Hood through the story of a woman kidnapped who fights for her survival. Raw and visceral acting can make this either very intense or confounding for those that have difficulty with abstract presentations. But, as I enjoy this type of format, I found this film intriguing

A familiar premise, only a small twist away from I Spit on Your Grave/Last House on the Left, etc. A fun ride nonetheless. It's low budget shortcomings came through on a couple scenes, but what was lacking in a groundbreaking cinematic vision was made up for with the enthusiastic performance of the cast. Especially the lead (Lucie Debay) put her whole heart into this and gave us a craved final girl above and beyond expectation.

I wouldn't say this was laughably bad, but you really do need to turn your brain completely off to find anything of worth here. Uninspired, over-the-top pervy, characters that I couldn't care less about, and even with an 86 minute runtime; it felt like it dragged on.

The whole reworking of fairy tales has been done so often that you'd have to come up with something quite special to create anything original and different. Unfortunately Hunted is neither.

For a such a simple plot line it manages to get incredibly tied up in itself. The basic premise isn't new, a psychotic criminal, a vulnerable woman, an idiot sidekick.

At one point this movie starts to move in an interesting direction as Eve escapes and gradually becomes absorbed into the woods. Nature begins to become part of her and some form of symbiotic relationship.

But this interesting direction quickly falls apart and for some weird reason a bunch of paint ballers appear out of nowhere and all of a sudden we find ourselves in some crappy version of survival horror.

There's too much going on in this, it's pulling in all sorts of different directions and ultimately failed to deliver.

Spends too much time with our antagonist and fails to make them likeable or interesting. Would have given it an 8/10 but the sound mixing is atrocious. There was a point where I farted and it overtook the soundtrack and I had to rewind to make out what they said.