The story at its most basic is frightful, and its potency rests in the beginning of the film. Where it steers off course is in the remaining two acts whose zaniness will assuredly divide viewers.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 20, 2023

Perhaps more would be forgiven if Paronnaud had delivered on the terror front, but aside from a few moments of body horror, there isn't much to sustain the average genre fan.

| Jun 5, 2021

Tip for directors: if you're for some reason compelled to add to the rape revenge subgenre, do make sure you have something to say on the subject first.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2021

Hunted is a grown-up homage to an old fairy tale favourite that drives home the real villains and monsters hiding under our beds.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 24, 2021

[Hunted[ is a genre film that goes beyond the gruesome and bloody violence... Paronnaud and team bring to light the actual horrors of rape culture with a story and a character that come across as quite real, in a visceral way, real.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2021

You might know the old tale that inspired it, but Hunted has plenty of new perspectives to offer. Memorable performances and excellent use of a forest setting make this European thriller worth a watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 18, 2021

A twisted fairytale that can't quite sustain the horror of its brilliant opening half-hour but is worth pursuing because of its timely #metoo message, and the fact you never quite know which woodland path it's leading its embattled Red Riding Hood down.

| Feb 6, 2021

Hunted doesn't really succeed in its aim to transform a standard woman-vs.-maniac scenario into the stuff of Jungian nightmare.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 1, 2021

It's a hodgepodge of wildly divergent narrative styles, from the mystical to the grisly and into the ridiculous.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

Hunted is the horror genre with best intentions, but it left me feeling lost in the woods.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 28, 2021

Hunted supplies both violent intensity and a darkly humorous mindset that miraculously works.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 24, 2021

Here's one for the artsy crowd that loves a good scare - a moody takeoff of the Little Red Riding Hood fable that will give you night sweats.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2021

There is very little in the way of three-dimensional character development, meaning that the catharsis that the film should be delivering ends up diluted, leading to an experience that does very little with its modern re-telling of Little Red.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 21, 2021

Opening with a persuasively eerie prologue and finishing up on a blood-soaked turn-of-the-tables, there's enough here to please genre fans without straying too far into any real innovative territory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2021

Hunted's gratuitous fillips only underline how conventional, pointless, even stupid and offensive it is at core. It would be less objectionable in the end if it simply owned up to being the crass, basic potboiler it is.

| Jan 16, 2021

While it features a decent sense of style and credible performances from Debay and Worthalter, they are not enough to elevate the material into something that can stand on its own.

| Jan 15, 2021

Hunted could've been something special or interesting. As it is, it's just a well-lensed mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2021

Hunted doesn't exactly rewrite the original tale, but it doesn't have to. It just has to have teeth, and Paronnaud's kept those canines sharp and savage.

| Original Score: 7.7/10 | Jan 15, 2021

Paronnaud offers an exhilarating survival thriller full of gorgeous fairy tale flourishes without adding to the conversation. The ferocity of its messaging doesn't match that of its heroine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2021

Hunted provides further proof of the strength and continued relevance of fairytales and how we'll always find something new to explore when we revisit them.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jan 14, 2021