I love this movie so much

Undescribable Perfection

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Films about humans hunting humans are really nothing new, but fortunately director/co-writer Thomas Szczopanski makes this entry in the genre stand out a bit from the pack thanks to his mean'n'lean grasp of narrative economy (this movie runs a tight 74 minutes long), an appropriately harsh and uncompromising take-no-prisoners tone that stays grimly true to itself to the literal bitter end, several startling moments of savage sadistic violence (the participants in the hunt have their tongues cut out and their bodies are chopped up before being fed to carnivorous pigs), and effective use of the sprawling remote sylvan setting. Moreover, Szczopanski manages to generate a considerable amount of tension when tabloid reporter protagonist Alex (a solid and likable performance by Zuriel De Pouslouan) finds himself in way over his head after he infiltrates a secret society of decadent rich freaks who get their twisted jollies from hunting down their fellow man. Anna Naigeon's crisp widescreen cinematography and Fabio Poujouly's rattling score are both up to par. Worth a watch for fans of this sort of thing.

I rented this by accident, instead of the film of the same name with Mads Mikkelsen. I didn't realise this until after watching it though so took it at face value. I do enjoy this genre so I just thought I'd ordered it on purpose.It's not great. It has elements of Hostel, Running Man, Hunger Games, amongst others and an odd back story around a porn writer. The latter was hard to follow and I never fully figured out what he did or was trying to do. This didn't seem to matter though as once the main plot kicked in it became irrelevant. It was visually pretty good, surprisingly so for an obviously low budget film. The action was pretty good too and there was a sense of drama and tension. However the grizzly graphic violence went wildly beyond anything required for the plot or artistic value. I'm not averse to violent films and it can give a sense of the true horror of a situation, however in The Hunt all we got was more and more hideous body parts and blood. It was hard to sympathise with the only proper character and the others were pretty empty. By the end - I won't give it away in case you still want to watch it - I had little interest left. It was only on trying to figure out why I had rented this film that I discovered its poor reviews. Not really worth watching, to be honest. At least it's short.

Intriguing but ultimately nothing special.Watched this by accident, thinking it was the highly-acclaimed movie of the same name, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. Released at about the same time too. Imagine my disappointment when instead of something rated 8.3 by IMDb I got something rated 4.7...This said, it is not terrible. Plot is intriguing, story is gritty and there is a good degree of tension throughout. However it ultimately just seems so conventional. Linear story, no real twists. Dull ending.Quite short though, which is a good thing.

When it comes to grim horror films, no one beats the French. Unfortunately in recent times French Horror has hit a bit of a dry patch, so you could imagine my excitement when I realized that The Hunt was being released and it was in fact from France!Being a lower budget film you can guess the flaws the film would have. Some of the camera work isn't up to scratch with a lot of the more widely known French Horror movies. It actually reminded of the terrible "Lady Blood" but thankfully this movie actually demonstrated that even low budget film makers can make a worthwhile movie.It is a movie that doesn't rely on a solid storyline, but a grim and tense atmosphere. I thought the setting of the woods was very beautiful and haunting at the same time and you could sense the danger around every corner. Our main character didn't really have any charm to him, so it didn't matter whether he survived or not, which can ultimately hurt a film, but once again, the movie didn't rely on that. What is manages to do is keep you in its suspense. By the end of the film you will be left thinking that something is missing, but this director has all the right things to make him a bigger player in the French Horror world. It has the brutality and nastiness to it that is evidence that this director realizes that French Horror is the leading force in World Cinema and that he wasn't going to steer away from that. So to summarize, the movie has its flaws, but it is a worthy addition to the ever growing French Horror scene! If you can excuse some of the budget problems, you will get yet another nasty French experience.