[REVIEW] 'HUNTER HUNTER' GOES AFTER THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

 Starring: Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa, Nick Stahl
Director: Shawn Linden
Writer: Shawn Linden

“We bring our problems to them, they bring their problems to us.” - Joseph

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THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION

Shawn Linden's (The Good Lie) third film, Hunter Hunter (2020) presents the viewer with a complex roadmap to navigate towards a shocking conclusion which firmly places it in the subgenre of Canuxploitation.  Linden takes his time to flense the skin and fat from his story to expose the bones and sinew before laying out the beating heart of  his thriller. The main characters, the Mersault family,  journey through many types of conflicts which drive the rising action and leads to a shocking climax and bloody resolution.

 

The Mersault family struggles with many different types of conflict as they live in their chosen setting, a cabin deep in the woods with minimal human contact. Joseph (Devon Sawa, Final Destination, Idle Hands), Anne (Camille Sullivan, A Dog's Way Home), and their tweener daughter, Renee (Summer H. Howell, Cult of Chucky), live off the grid. They make a simple, bare bones life as hunters and trappers. Their primitive existence is initially upset the return of a wolf that eats their traps the discovery that there is not enough money to buy supplies for the coming winter.