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Hunted movie 202011/2/2022 Eve is mostly fighting a stand-in for the patriarchy. In fact, Hunted’s extended critique of toxic masculinity fails to say much that is new, and despite Worthalter’s unsettling turn, the unnamed man is more metaphor than compelling villain. (Crows, snakes and a wild hog will all play a part in the plotting.) More specifically, Paronnaud suggests that men are beasts, and while that’s not an inapt observation, it’s not particularly original, either. Those unsophisticated tools hint at one of Hunted’s overarching theses, which is that humanity really hasn’t evolved that much beyond the primal impulses of the animal kingdom. (Worthalter plays this misogynistic monster with serene menace.) Much of the film consists of Eve playing a desperate cat-and-mouse game with these two men as she tries to elude capture in the forest - the weapons at their disposal will include a boxcutter and a bow and arrow. Hunted’s unnamed assailant has a camcorder, and we see footage of him torturing and presumably raping and killing past victims. A sudden car accident gives her an opportunity to escape, and she fees into the nearby woods, with the two men in hot pursuit. Suddenly, Eve realises she’s being kidnapped by the man and his creepy accomplice (Ciaran O’Brien). She impulsively goes out to a club, where she meets a handsome unnamed man (Arieh Worthalter) who lures her back to his car to make out. Paronnaud’s timely themes could help make this a popular pick for further festivals and theatrical exposure - including the US, where RLJE and Shudder will be handling distribution.Įve (Debay) is a stressed-out supervisor for a construction company, staying at a hotel overnight as part of a job. There’s sufficient gore, twists, and grindhouse weirdness here to propel word of mouth, which the film will need to boost play. Shot in Belgium with its location never specified, this is the English-language debut of Paronnaud, who co-directed Persopolis. Hunted gets progressively stranger as it rolls along Premiering at Fantasia, Hunted has all the ingredients for a crowd-pleasing midnight movie. Although it’s never wholly successful in either mode, Lucie Debay gives a fully committed, eventually downright feral performance as the latest target of a sociopath. French comic book artist and filmmaker Vincent Paronnaud immerses the viewer in this tense genre exercise, with the results falling somewhere between thought-provoking and stylishly pulpy. 87mins.Ī woman engages in an increasingly savage battle with her abductor in Hunted, a nasty little horror-thriller that aims to tap into the zeitgeist by turning a brutal standoff into a meditation on toxic masculinity and #metoo.
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