A motley group of business students in Berlin, Germany sign up for Takahashi Corp.'s assessment weekend, hoping to land one of the coveted spots with the consulting company. Under the watchful eye of a company psychologist, the team-working and improvisational skills of the aspirants will be put to the test in a survival-type situation. But nothing goes according to plan - the group arrives to find the base camp completely destroyed. Trapped in the woods with no food, no shelter and no way to communicate with the outside world, the real characters of the students come to light, as one by one, they start to lose their heads...
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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
The acting in this movie is really good.
HEADHUNTER is an indie-budgeted mix of horror and thriller genres from Germany. Once again a bunch of potential victims head off into the woods, this time as part of a team building exercise. There are shades of the British film SEVERANCE, a fine black comedy with exactly the same story, but this is nowhere near as good as that movie. Instead it's talky, slow, and goes through the motions. Aside from the odd gore scene it's also devoid of horror.
Takahashi Logistics Corporation (TLC) recruited six college students for an assessment weekend in the woods for consideration for employment. They give us six people you would like to see dead as they can't seem to agree on the simplest ideas. Things don't go right and as you can guess from the DVD cover and there is a body count. You already know the "final girl." I missed the part where Brad and Sarah ate mushrooms or something as I assumed the appearance of the corporate CEO in the middle of the woods was a hallucination. The film didn't make much sense and characters were not great. Part of a 3 film pack with "The Archer." Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
Just saw the German production Headhunter – The Assessment Weekend" and was really satisfied with the gritty and humoresque attitude the Kraut director Sebastian Panneck is creating in his homage to the 70ties horror low-budget flicks. The characters are drawn with a sarcastic sense and after a calm beginning the film starts to gather pace. Lots of bloody gruesome deaths are happening to the lost students in the backwoods until the final encounter of the lead figures. The surprising end finishes this cool b-movie with a smacker. A good story telling through the editing is the base for a reliable and sound film experience. The lead actors are American and the performance of all actors is very solid. It seems that most of them are native speakers so the quality of the used language shows not the weakness (sometimes embarrassment) of other European productions with non-English Actors. The ghostly and partly disturbing soundtrack is supporting the dark appearance of the film. On the negative side I have to mention the quality of the colors. The color correction is not showing what HD can achieve today. The double DVD is packed with tons of extras. On some blockbuster DVD's you will not find that much. I very like the crew film that of the actors had captured. Good editing there too. All in all this double DVD is definitely worth the money.
There are certain films that we automatically select upon review for screening at Horror UK's 28 Hours Later Film Festival, they have to be of a very high quality.The Assessment is one of these films. We loved it because, put simply, it's a film that you can sit down and watch - and enjoy.It's not the type of horror that you hire so that you can laugh at how bad it is, it has a solid script, great acting and the cinematography works really well.The Assessment is a winner of our 'bloody good film award', which means that it was a good all-rounder.Joe Jenkins (Director, Horror UK)
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