Hounded

Is this film a master piece? Its not far off.

I genuinely didn't know what i was walking into when I started watching this. Had they the budget this would have REALLY worked as a TV Short. If they had a bigger budget again I think the whole premise has a market.

The concept is quite basic, the acting from the lead hunt woman is high quality! There was just something missing and I feel this was in the establishment of relating to the hunted.

I wish we had more time exploring the characters and getting attached to them prior to the set up. The film did try and the cinematography and audio landscaping carried us flawlessly through the adventure.

Give it a watch! :)

Hounded was a surprisingly good film, I thought the acting was decent to the best it could be was not expecting samatha bond to be a villian but she plays the character in an unsettling way. She plays kathrine redwick, a wealthy person that larry lamb wants four teenagers to nick a dagger from, somehing they dont ask questions about. Chaz, vix, leon and and tod are down on their luck and chaz is tying to get his brother through college, but after getting caught in the ladies house the group finds themselves being chased by the four horsemen and dogs that know where they are going. Its pretty gory and grizzly in ways and you rout for the young ones. Overall i thought this was a pretty good thriller.

Hounded (2022) is a UK addition to the horror genre that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows a group of robbers who decide to break into the wrong family's home in the English countryside. The family captures them and sets them loose on their countryside land to be hunted, fox hunting style. Can any of the robbers survive the hunt?

This movie is directed by Tommy Boulding, in his directorial debut, and stars Malachi Pullar-Latchman (Shark Bait), Samantha Bond (Die Another Day), James Lance (Bronson), Hannah Traylen (Boiling Point) and Katrina Syran (The Lady from the Sea).

This movie was actually set up pretty well with entertaining characters, intense circumstances and an authentic premise. The acting is actually pretty good and the brother relationship felt realistic. There's a rock wall scene to start the movie that was entertaining as is the use of a bear trap. I also appreciated the solid use of dogs. However, this is one of those movies where everything felt like it needed to be taken a step further. The kills were okay, but could have been more gory. The characters could have been more aggressive, which would have created more intensity. And the ending was solid, but not as dramatic as intended. The best part of the movie was the outfits, settings and outcomes of the villains.

Overall, this is another addition to the horror genre that's almost good, but needed to press the envelope a little further. I would score this a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

British thriller, produced in 2022, with the main theme of manhunt. One of the most common topics. A group breaks into a house for theft and is caught. Then they become the prey of hunters. Although it is not such a high-quality, high-tension movie, it is watched. It is not difficult to predict who will survive, which hunter will die first, and other events within the film. In these, just like in Hollywood movies, jokes can be made 2 minutes later, even if there is a deceased sibling or relative. The ending was not what I expected.

All the characters are repulsive. The most innocent is the first to be sacrificed.

There is no sex or nudity in the movie.

An attempted robbery of a grand family home goes wrong for four young thieves.

Firstly, it's nice to watch a film that has a ninety minute running time, they seem to be a rarity these days, the problem.....the last ninety minutes.

I liked the storyline of the movie, and I liked that it featured Samantha Bond and James Lance (even if I haven't fully recovered from his atrocious accent in The Canterville Ghost.) Both are a somewhat flat here unfortunately.

It's a story of revenge I guess, but it's just impossible to have sympathy with any of the characters, a set of thieves, or a set of vigilante aristocrats in riding gear. None of the characters feel real, they are caricatures and stereotypes.

It felt pretty cheaply made, I guess that it clearly didn't have much of a budget, but it's such an unimaginative production.

I don't think it's worthy of a 1 or 2 star rating, nor can I see anything to warrant it getting anything towards the higher end of the scale either, it's just too flawed.

4/10.