The Hunters
The Hunters
R | 27 December 2011 (USA)
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Alice and her friends are approaching the end of the school year where their dead-end lives will end and the chance of a new life will begin. Before heading off to college they spend one last day together in the woods, the one part of town that has always been off limits to them growing up. As they stumble upon what they thought was an abandoned fort only to find the walls dripping in blood and decompressing body parts lying around, they are startled to learn they are now a part of an undercover investigation. After being told to get out of the woods they realize they're trapped, for the Hunters, who call the fort home, never let anyone out alive.

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garrison-berger

If you love terrible plots and terrible horror films, watch it! Terrible french accents! Cliché police officers and commissioners with cliché lines. People with french accents don't speak french to each other. Why? You'd think if two people are french, they'd speak french to each other. One more thing. I'm confused as hell and i followed Shutter Island closely. If you truly love movies and watch them frequently. Watch this for a laugh or two. it definitely got me! This movie is completely useless, The writer is an idiot and the producers are worse. COMPLETE BULLSH*T! The sets are bad, the script is worse! all i can say is, this movie is on Super Channel. you know a movie is bad when it is on Super Chanel. Crap crap crap! My review wont submit if i don't have 10 lines so i have to ramble on and on when i've already made my point. Blah blah blah, crap crap crap. Kinda like this movie. By the way, i don think i'm even half way through it. that's how horrible it is! The location is a mystery! where the hell does the movie take place!? some ppl are french, some aren't. What's the deal. The editor should be fired too!

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JoeB131

Despite the American sounding actors, this movie was made in Europe, and it shows. I think this is supposed to have been set in either Canada or the US (they never make it clear) but the dialog is kind of confused, as though someone didn't quite check their translations. That and they think America is Murder-Land.The plot is that a foursome of hunters are using an abandoned fort as a spot to take out their frustrations on the world by hunting other people. I should point out that the setting of the Fort was probably the best thing about the movie, the place truly is creepy and a bit disturbing. Compared to the rest of the film, which is a disjointed mess.Meanwhile, a cop who has just returned from Afghanistan disobeys his clearly unbalanced chief's orders meets up with an informant at said Fort. Unbeknownst to him, the Chief is on the whole, "Murder people for fun" gag and has been covering up the missing person reports.The ending was truly the sign that this was not made by Americans, because the whole notion of dramatic tension that even a first year film student learns is lost on these guys.

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Robert W.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie where I read the case to the DVD, and then watch the movie and it literally has NOTHING to do with what the case says. For the first time ever...I'm going to post the IMDb summary into my review. This is what it says...Alice and her friends are approaching the end of the school year where their dead-end lives will end and the chance of a new life will begin. Before heading off to college they spend one last day together in the woods, the one part of town that has always been off limits to them growing up. As they stumble upon what they thought was an abandoned fort only to find the walls dripping in blood and decomposing body parts lying around, they are startled to learn they are now a part of an undercover investigation. After being told to get out of the woods they realize they're trapped, for the Hunters, who call the fort home, never let anyone out alive.Yep...not true. "Alice" is barely in the movie. Her friends and her do not go to the woods. There are hardly any friends in the film other than a random guy she runs into. But if you look at the top of the IMDb page it says this--- "A new police officer wants to meet up with somebody in an abandoned fort in the woods. What he doesn't know is that the place also serves as a meeting point for a group of hunters - whose prey aren't animals."That's what The Hunters is actually about. The concept and idea behind The Hunters is kind of interesting, men looking for a thrill and hunting humans for sport. It has moments of being outstandingly gory and even some half decent performances but The Hunters doesn't deliver itself in the proper way and is slapped together with a forced performance by a TV "It Girl." Steven Waddington and Tony Becker give solid performances in their lead roles. I actually think they give performances far beyond that of what this movie really is. The TV "It Girl" is Glee's Dianna Agron. She gives and is what I can only described as a complete and utter waste of a character. She has no point to the story and maybe they edited her part down to nothing but it literally is pointless. Chris Briant gives a solid performance as the main hero of the film. His character actually has a good arc and is well told.Briant is also the director of the film but I don't believe it is his directing or his performance is the issue. I think the problem is with the messy script. You don't really know what direction it is going and the crime angle of the story is almost unnecessary. The film is not a total waste once you wade through the unfortunate aspects. Still this thriller is easily miss-able. 6/10

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grant smith

I notice that another reviewer couldn't just give this film a 1 rating because he thought the director was trying to say something. I think he was trying to say "Hey, look! I'm a s**t director!" so I'll happily give it a 1.I have to write 10 lines of text in a review, so I can only expand on how awfully bad this movie is on every level. I really don't think the camera work was particularly good, but it might just scrape ahead of the acting. Oh, and the "plot" has so many holes in it it makes a sponge look like a lump of lead.I really hope I've made someone think twice before wasting a portion of their life to watch this abysmal failure. Can I get my money back, please?

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