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'Hunter Hunter' is a Somber Thriller With a Jaw-Dropping Finale Remember 'The Adventures of the Wilderness Family?' This tale of a family living off the land is like that only bloody, sad, and traumatic. Enjoy! IFC Midnight Life can be hard, and it’s sometimes so because of choices we make along the way. Other times, though, our challenges come at the discretion of outside forces. The trick is choosing wisely, learning from your mistakes, and knowing when to call it quits. Hunter Hunter offers up a survival thriller about a family caught in the crosshairs of poor decisions, bad luck, and t...

12/18/2020 A family of fur hunters runs into trouble in the wilderness in Shawn Linden's thriller featuring Camille Sullivan, Devon Sawa and Nick Stahl. Since my parents inexplicably failed to instill in me a love for killing at an early age, I've never gone hunting. But I can imagine that it takes a lot of patience and exactitude before achieving the satisfaction of the final result. Shawn Linden's new thriller Hunter Hunter is a lot like that. The film's title is repetitive by design, providing a not-so-subtle hint that there will be more than one stalker of living creatures on display. Th...

Hunter Hunter’s narrative pivot is key to its success, but Linden still struggles to bridge the muted world-building and tense familial drama of its early scenes with the gut-churning nightmares that precede its bloody climax. Just as Joseph stumbles upon the dark secrets tucked within his land, the film hitches us to a pair of local authorities who broaden the world without bringing much else. As they grapple with vacationing yuppies and, eventually, a paranoid Anne, the narrative stalls, reminding us that there are much, much more interesting things happening offscreen. What the film does...

In writer-director Shawn Linden’s survivalist thriller “Hunter Hunter,” Camille Sullivan plays Anne Mersault, who reluctantly lives deep in the woods with her fur trapper husband, Joseph (Devon Sawa), and their resourceful daughter, Renée (Summer H. Howell). The family barely ekes out a living, so when a wolf stalks their land and starts stealing from their traps, the threat taxes an already fraying marriage. That’s the setup for this film — and it’s plenty dramatic. But Linden uses that premise as the jumping-off point for a surprising and often repulsively gory story, which kic...