The Spirithunter

This was a thoughtful and progressive movie. Obviously a true INDIE it had exceptional depth of story and was provocative enough to keep you glued until the very end!

Most self-styled films get lost in themselves or end up pointless. Nothing could be farther from the truth for SPIRITHUNTER. Intriguing characters, great set design and costuming. Most of all the acting was brilliant. The Lead was a sympathetic character that pulled you both into, and along the storyline until you were wrapped up tight.

David Weidner's editing smacks of a long-time pro on a personal project.

Loved it!

The Spirit Hunter is a nice little suspense thriller about what happens when you die.

In David Weidner's world, you run!

With your memory erased, you are given a head start on The Spirit Hunter. Depending on how good you lived your life, you are given a certain head start against the spirit hunter. You have to remember your life and reconnect with your body before your soul is given to The Spirit Hunter.

Well, if only it were that easy. Death isn't as straightforward as you might think. Who do you trust? Where do you go? What happens if I do reach my body? All these questions are part of this suspenseful movie.

Not your typical suspense movie based on quick cuts and a high pitched score, this movie is much more thought provoking. It has a smooth pace and the story never stops.

Lead by Jonathan T. Floyd, the cast is outstanding.

The film is very good, but where The Spirit Hunter would really shine is as a Television series. A lot of money could be made of this world that Weidner has developed.

An indie horror film with cheesy special effects, is actually a very ambitious indie horror/spiritual thriller, in which a man wakes up dead (gotta love it) and is suddenly on the run from evil forces trying to get his soul before he reunites with his body.

Along the way he finds out there are many other "lost souls" traveling the earth, in which only certain ones can see each other. And how you have lived your life - how much "bad karma" you have collected through your misdeeds - affects your ability to remember what you have done, who you are, where you need to go, where your body might be laid...

Our hero, eventually revealed to be one "Chris Sendak", has memory flashes as he puts his past life - and what happened to him - together, as we do, while being chased down by evil forces, rendered in rather fake-looking Lightstorm FX, but we certainly get the point. He keeps company with other lost souls, like drunks, hookers, a homeless guy in a bar, etc.

How did he end up dead? Where's his body buried, and who buried it?

This is a view of the afterlife we haven't seen in movies before.

Director Weidner intercuts past and present very well, and the pieces come together eventually. He has a tendency to let scenes go on too long, but usually for side characters that have things to say, and he'd rather make his points (...lots of them), then cut this down to a more "commercial" thriller.

The film starts out with a bang, has good acting, and realistically portrays the lead (Jonathan Floyd) as truly confused, worried, and searching. Blue glowing lights to signify the "SpiritHunter" cheapens the proceedings, and his powers and motivations are never really spelled out to make much sense. But it's a ride worth taking, because this film has a lot more on its mind than just being a horror film. The lead character is forced to think about the choices he made in his life, and is given a very nice and satisfying opportunity to make things "right" at the end.

Most horror indie films are gore-fests. This one is really a cut above.