It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This film tells the story of his father and son who visited their place of residence in a remote forest after that, all of which became chaotic, when mysterious creatures began to terrorize them. This film has a weakness that is the very bad acting of the actor in this film.

It's easy to push aside this whole project as yet another creature-feature with the umpteenth attempt to revive the (in my humble opinion) most unrealistic and pathetic monster of all: Sasquatch (or Bigfoot or whatever local legend like to call him). And to be sure: all the scenes where we see the creature (in fact there's a whole pack of them) stumble around and fight and roar, this movie is as cheesy as you can expect. It beats me why nowadays (this movie dates from 2015), with so much more technique at your disposal for special effects and CGI, they still dare to come up with guys in furry ape-suits! But surprisingly enough there's another side to this movie. It's about a father and son who, forced by financial reasons, come to live in a shabby shed-like cabin in the middle of the woods. They evidently have mutual issues, the son being weary of his fathers unemployment and his tendency to drink (there's some innuendo that this drinking had something to do with the car-accident that caused the death of the mother-figure) and of the fact that he is forced to live in some dilapidated hovel and not being able to go to college. And the father is weary of his sons passive, complaining and accusing attitude. Then an odd couple appears: an old school-buddy of the father who turns out as an obnoxious drinking and pot-smoking bully, and the boys uncle who is the opposite and acts kindly and understanding to the boy. The four of them leave for a hunting-hike in the woods, which at last (we're some 30 to 45 minutes into the movie by that time!) triggers the Sasquatch-assault.It's like looking at two totally different movies somehow put together. The one where we follow the father and son is actually very good and compelling, supported by some great photography, by a good script and strong dialogues and by very convincing acting of both the father and son characters. I was especially impressed by young Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, who seems like a real promise to me for the future. Even during the attack of the sasquatches on the cabin, where one preposterous scene after another drags the movie down to level zero or beyond, the excellent acting of Joris-Peyrafitte all the time shines through. And while the direction of all the sasquatch-turmoil seemed almost amateurish, the direction of the scenes within the cabin, where father and son are time and again being surprised by yet another assault (stones flying through the windows, a sasquatch falling through the ceiling) is actually very good, the jump-scares that it gave me were almost as genuine as the ones both actors pretended to have (almost as if the director for a more realistic effect didn't warn the actors that rocks would be thrown through the windows!).The ending of the movie illustrated the dual character very well: on the one side the son making a gesture of peace in stead of using his rifle to kill the beast, which makes for an almost moving moment; on the other side the last one standing sasquatch looking as preposterously silly as during the rest of the movie.Well, a silly creature-feature was all I expected (I admit, such movies are my guilty pleasure), so this two-sided movie didn't exactly gave what they promised on the cover of this DVD. But in the end it gave so much more and while watching I was really kind of sorry when at last the sasquatches turned up. I see on IMDb that director (and writer and producer) John Portanova seems to do mostly horror-movies. Maybe he should try a serious drama for once, I bet that would turn out very fine (if not better!) then the horrors.

After waiting for over a year for this movie to come I finally got to watch it. It's not that good. Bad acting and uninteresting characters. If you want to watch a really good Bigfoot movie I highly suggest watching "Exists". Now that's a Bigfoot movie. "Hunting Grounds" pales in comparison.

I simply have to keep it short, thus I hope I won't exceed the 10 lines minimum rule.Hunting Grounds is a 2 stars movie! 1 because it doesn't get any lower than that and 2 because they made production. Amazingly enough this movie was green lighted by someone and it happened. It appeared on rental and I guess a bunch of people got to see it.What a shame! What a waste of time. Simply put: awful and beyond. Just stay away from this one. It has nothing to bring. It will amaze you, but this is not The Room bad, this is just so bad.Cheers!