Very well executed
Let's be realistic.
Excellent, a Must See
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
View MoreA couple of guys in Jim Thorpe, Pa. go on a killing and rape rampage and film it. Another film crew gets caught up in the action. Some of it was simply snuff porn. There is better gore out there, this consisted of fake severed male organs and tons of fake blood. Couldn't manage any gut spillage. Hey just go down to the local butcher and get some pig innards. Nice to see Linnea Quigley getting used and degraded again. Her dancing took a serious step downward since "Auditions" or "The Return of the Living Dead," but I still love her. Too much of the film is one guy running around filming while showing us his junk. Film tried to be cute with Sphinx type riddles. For low budget cult addicts.Guide: F-word. Rape. Nudity.
View MoreI'm a horror genre freak...so I think reviews for this genre should be done by its fans to give an unbiased opinion. Disclaimer at start of film warned us of extreme, disturbing images and they weren't joking. Pretty much non-stop torture, murder, rape, and gore galore. You definitely haven't seen any of this content in a horror flick before. Plot is non-existent and the female lead Linnea Quigley is a bad actress...despite being an 80s scream queen. Gotta say this one was too brutal for me to handle.
View MorePlease don't be fooled like I was. Before downloading this film IMDb had rated this film 6.something, today it is 3.4. I am not surprised & it will serve me right for paying attention to too many'good' reviews.To be honest I only could watch this one for 10 minutes. Bad acting and lazy camera work made this decision for me. I have no idea what the film was about so 'no spoilers' here. In conclusion, films both written and directed by the same person are real passion projects. They can either be very good or very bad. This one is the latter. Poor Adam Albrant, with this movie top of his CV he may not work in the industry again :(
View MoreWhereas The Cemetery was a bit of a letdown for me, I absolutely loved The Burnt House. What an exquisite piece of night that film was! From the first frame I was entranced by the filthy disharmony that was being vomited from the screen, every single frame voiced wrongness, the unholy atmosphere being conveyed in that film was what I consider the epitome of horror, a nightmarish sense of dread. Horror done the right way!While Hunters is a different kind of beast, I am glad to say that I loved this as well. This time around it's centered around two brothers who find delight in the offing of man while at the same time filming their ravenous deeds. It has to be said, contrary to the warning stating that what you are about to see is ultra-violent, it's certainly not the most extreme film I've seen regarding acts of the unspeakable. It's most certainly a cruel and callous piece of work and the violence and murder on display is certainly up there on the extremity scale, but not to such a degree that it merits a warning. That being said, I think the essential element here is the life-denying atmosphere, the darkness that hangs over every frame, and Ahlbrandt certainly is one director who has mastered the art of atmosphere, sadly a rather rare trait in this day and age of horror-poverty and popcorn-scares. Any idiot with a bit of cash and a working knowledge of how to make blood and prosthetic limbs can always gather a few friends, pick up a camera and make an "extreme" film, not that hard. Just look at the sorry state of horror these days. But to actually convey through the visual medium a truly horrific atmosphere, to leave an emotional impact, you have to have a vision, a vision obviously born of a profound insight into the darkness in our hearts. Hunters has my warmest recommendations! I wish the director good luck in the future, looking forward to his next piece of filth!
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