Sometimes there's just not a whole bunch to say about a film. Be it good or bad (although, I do find it easier to write about bad films). I started doing this blog not to just ramble on and on about trash films but to keep track of all the genre appropriate films I watched. Instead of struggling to stretch out reviews for films I don't have much to say about and drive myself insane over a blog that only friends of mine read, I decided short capsule reviews were a safe way of curbing any frustration.
Two men set off into the woods to film themselves buck hunting on some newly acquired land. Attempting to get a show deal out of it, their frustration grows as they can't seem to get the buck they are after and they are plagued by a piercing scream that seems to be following them. Their cameras are catching nothing, whatever is screaming is escalating its "attacks" and the landowner may be hiding a secret of just what the hell is going on.
Many people have grown bored and needlessly angry towards the "found footage" subgenre. I have no issue with it. Like every other subgenre sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For every good slasher film (The Burning, Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter) you have less than stellar examples (Doom Asylum, Pranks). It's the risk every horror fan takes. The Hunted is a good found footage film. Creepy as hell, aided by likable characters and utilizing the true horror of the woods after dark, The Hunted comes out as a nice showcase of how found footage can be done right.
8/10
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