Redefining the big bad wolf, this gut punch of a film is suspenseful, unnerving, and brutal.

| Oct 17, 2022

“Hunter Hunter” is a movie that quietly lures you in by building an interesting family dynamic worth investing in. The characters feel authentic which makes their tense and eventually frightening story resonate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Sneaks up on viewers with strong writing and a deliberate choice to not take it easy the participants in this suspenseful movie.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2021

Ultimately, there's more to fear out there than wolves, and our unfortunate family learns too late that they were right to shun humankind.

| Jun 5, 2021

Simplistic as it is, this is smart filmmaking, anchored by stunning, accomplished performances that add psychological weight to its undecorated core.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2021

Hunter Hunter is a hell of a movie.

| Mar 19, 2021

A film that could be seen as a fairy tale, a horror, a survival thriller, or a dish of food for thought, Hunter Hunter is tough to watch, but tense and ultimately satisfying.

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

Hunter Hunter is a twisted journey into the darkest parts of the forest where only the most bloodthirsty animals survive with the most effective, macabre, gut-punch ending of 2020.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 27, 2021

Hunter Hunter has a relatively small cast, but the movie is big on gradually building suspense, which culminates in a shocking and very gruesome ending ... Hunter Hunter doesn't want to offer easy answers on issues relating to morality or death.

| Jan 25, 2021

It's honest in its cruelty. And honesty counts for something.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2021

Hunter Hunter offers no easy solutions, no uplift, no salvation, redemption or reassurance. It's too viciously honest to do that.

| Jan 7, 2021

Hunter Hunter eventually turns into a helping of horror with an ending that sears itself into memory.

| Jan 5, 2021

When that needle drop ends, souls have been broken. That's what makes Hunter Hunter an extraordinary entry in the modern horror canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2021

Hunter Hunter builds towards a progressively engrossing third act that climaxes with an absolutely jaw-dropping and spellbinding finale...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 3, 2021

Hunter Hunter is a case of style over substance and your ability to appreciate that more than denigrate it will be the sole barometer of whether you leave satisfied.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2021

Though more meat is needed on its narrative bones, Shawn Linden's backwoods horror creepfest is a mean-spirited parable about finding out who the ultimate monster is - beast or man?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 31, 2020

Hunter Hunter's atmospheric, woodland nightmare barrels through like a boulder down a hillside and depicts a ferocious battle between man and beast.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Hunter Hunter is at once more straightforward and more gripping.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Writer/director Shawn Linden cuts off the gristle and serves up the grisly with a savory slow-roasted tale of tension and terror with Hunter Hunter.

| Dec 29, 2020

Linden shapes what could've been a very simple plot into something viciously exciting that's also a microcosm of much larger issues regarding gender and violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2020