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  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Hunter Hunter follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in ...

Directed By: Shawn Linden

Written By: Shawn Linden

  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2020
  • Unrated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 33 m

Hunter Hunter

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 19 User Ratings
5.4
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Summary Hunter Hunter follows a family living in the remote wilderness earning a living as fur trappers. Joseph Mersault (Devon Sawa), his wife Anne (Camille Sullivan), and their daughter Renée (Summer H. Howell) struggle to make ends meet and think their traps are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf. Determined to catch the predator in ...

Directed By: Shawn Linden

Written By: Shawn Linden

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
61
78% Positive
7 Reviews
11% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
61
78% Positive
7 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
11% Negative
1 Review

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90
Jan 8, 2021
Hunter Hunter's atmospheric, woodland nightmare barrels through like a boulder down a hillside and depicts a ferocious battle between man and beast.
By Jack Wilhelmi FULL REVIEW
89
Dec 24, 2020
It's the final act that takes that final twist of the knife, as the thriller becomes a grand guignol horror, yet still based within the world and the rules established in that grounded opening.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

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5.4
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26% Positive
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53% Mixed
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21% Negative
4 Ratings

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chemicalE
Jan 18, 2022
From great atmospheric building, to amazing background score, with consistent and developing character traits, and twists and turns, this movie came out of nowhere and blew me away. Writer-Director, Shawn Lendin definitely deserves praise, and Camille Sullivan steals the show.
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Mauro_Lanari
Mar 25, 2022
(Mauro Lanari) The Hobbesian metaphor runs out almost immediately, the director abandons the anthropological cue as well as plausibility to commit himself with irrepressible dedication to the butchery.
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75
Dec 13, 2020
Writer-director Shawn Linden skillfully draws us into the narrative before springing a series of startling traps—of both the narrative and literal variety.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
70
Dec 17, 2020
The performances are all fine, with Sawa and Stahl providing forceful presences. But Sullivan is particularly memorable, delivering the sort of galvanizing, physically and emotionally demanding turn that would be of the star-making variety if Hunter Hunter were to be seen by a wide audience.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
67
Dec 19, 2020
The actors ably carry the script, as if aware they’re pawns in a genre exercise.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 17, 2020
The movie’s final act takes too grim a turn, leading up to an ending that’s overly dark and disgusting. But even as it goes way over the top, “Hunter Hunter” stays focused on the fragility of the Mersaults, who want to live by their own rules but discover that nature has its own agenda.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 18, 2020
I like cheap exploitation as much as the next guy, but not when it tries to disguise itself with transparently insincere humanist indie trappings.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
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Kronicalk
Sep 11, 2021
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Kryss_Everson
Aug 30, 2021
Characters who do not seem to think. Indeed, not declaring to have found corpses to the police, to leave your child with a rather strange stranger, etc is beyond comprehension. This film tries to make us ask ourselves questions by bringing out many elements but in the end, by not answering anything, we end up with an indigestible mixture. A total waste of time in the end.
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Production Company Julijette, MarVista Entertainment, Particular Crowd
Release Date Dec 18, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline Hunt or be hunted
Website https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/hunter-hunter
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Awards

Leo Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
UBCP/ACTRA Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ACTRA Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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