It looks like everyone involved had an absolute blast with what they made, I am just not sure if I did. Hunted is a grown-up homage to an old fairy tale favourite that drives home the real villains and monsters hiding under our beds. It’s really effective and sets the tone that works with the themes and visuals. Taking place in an unnamed European country with a collection of accents among the characters, Hunted creates a fun take on the spooky European horror that is just a bit scented with French extremity. It does well enough to equate “not taking no for an answer” with the violence that comes with it, but the dialogue gets confused with its associating sex with violence and doesn’t always land perfectly. In one sense, that’s the point, a woman on the run from vile men, in another, its gratuitous sexual violence in a film that might have been a full-blown midnight blast if it was just about bloody carnage. Sure, it’s intentionally reflecting reality by having men hunting women, but the hammering in of sexual violence makes it more difficult to enjoy the hammy performance and depravity. Where the film leaps towards its themes of “men being the real predators” in its adult take on Red Riding Hood, it loses itself a bit in the comedy of subject matter. The dueling performances keep it all together, Debay selling the otherwise average woman forced into becoming a feral predator, Worthalter as the over-the-top villain who buries natural rugged charm under the mask of a maniac. He trips and gets scathed, spending more time watching his old snuff videos than trying to use the woods to his own benefit. Meanwhile, the hunter is being kicked out of the woods by every branch. Every moment she learns to eat and drink in the woods paints her as a woman of intuition and ability. Eve, herself, becomes one with the woods in a way she’d never be expected to. There are twists, turns, and bumps in the road hard to see coming that make room for new characters to crop up and join the game. What writer/director, Vincent Paronnaud, most known for his comic art, does so successfully is keep a cat-and-mouse game engaging the whole way through. Looking like a grown Red Riding Hood, Eve makes her way through the woods on an aimless journey for safety, while her attackers remain in desperate pursuit. Then it turns into a deranged tale of a woman refusing to be prey that bleeds from every orifice. A car accident gives her the opportunity to flea into the woods, setting off a hunt, the two men trying to get the woman in a red raincoat. After some attempted escapes and moments that feel like she might have a shot, Eve is back on route to her supposed demise. After inviting her to his car to make out, he locks Eve in with his accomplice (Ciaran O’Brien) and takes her on a ride. But this man, like the one before him, also doesn’t like being told what he can and can’t do. But soon, she meets a white knight, an unnamed man (Arieh Worthalter) who shoos the other away and brings fun to her dwindling evening. On her excursion, she’s approached by the typical relentless bar star, a man unwilling to take no for an answer. On a business trip, after the relatable experience of work-related strain, she decides to take herself out for a cocktail. Opening Huntedwith her spooky tale, the mother warns, “the company of wolves is better than that of men.” Therein the direction of where the film will take us, a fairy tale homage that gives us men as the villain, not of the big eared and sharped toothed canine.Įve (Lucie Debay) is a stressed-out working woman with a frustrating boss. For a mother and son on a trip through the woods, the tales of men and wolves take center stage. She will have revenge.Fairy tales, grim and otherwise, make for the perfect campfire fodder. Forced to flee as two men pursue her through the forest, she’s pushed to her extremes while fighting to survive in the wilderness-but survival isn’t enough for Eve. Haunted House Monster Truck - Scary Car Race Haunted House Monster Truck Episode 7. Haunted House Monster Truck - Scary Car Garage Haunted House Monster Truck Episode 4. What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve (Lucie Debay) becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. HORROR COMEDY SHORT FILM - Not Haunted - (2020) Shadow Alley Productions. The film premiered at the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival and released on Shudder on January 14, 2021. The film stars Christian Bronchart, Lucie Debay, Ciaran O'Brien, Jean-Mathias Pondant and Kevin Van Doorslaer. Hunted is a Belgian-French-Irish survival thriller film directed by Vincent Paronnaud.
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