![]() ![]() Initially scared out of her mind, Eve slowly becomes more powerful - almost as if she’s connecting to something untamed within herself once she goes into the forest - and the actress bolsters the story’s mythic aspirations by delivering a performance which is elemental and highly physical.Īs one might expect from a genre offering like this, Hunted gets progressively stranger as it rolls along, introducing new characters and unveiling ludicrous surprises. It’s a familiar narrative arc - the seemingly ordinary protagonist who finds her inner warrior because of a life-and-death struggle - but Debay helps sell that cliché. Starting off as a beleaguered but demure employee who is tired of her overbearing male boss, Eve will be thrust into a harrowing experience where she must survive by her wits and brute strength. Eve is mostly fighting a stand-in for the patriarchy. In fact, Hunted’s extended critique of toxic masculinity fails to say much that is new, and despite Worthalter’s unsettling turn, the unnamed man is more metaphor than compelling villain. (Crows, snakes and a wild hog will all play a part in the plotting.) More specifically, Paronnaud suggests that men are beasts, and while that’s not an inapt observation, it’s not particularly original, either. Those unsophisticated tools hint at one of Hunted’s overarching theses, which is that humanity really hasn’t evolved that much beyond the primal impulses of the animal kingdom. ![]() (Worthalter plays this misogynistic monster with serene menace.) Much of the film consists of Eve playing a desperate cat-and-mouse game with these two men as she tries to elude capture in the forest - the weapons at their disposal will include a boxcutter and a bow and arrow. Hunted’s unnamed assailant has a camcorder, and we see footage of him torturing and presumably raping and killing past victims. A sudden car accident gives her an opportunity to escape, and she fees into the nearby woods, with the two men in hot pursuit. Suddenly, Eve realises she’s being kidnapped by the man and his creepy accomplice (Ciaran O’Brien). She impulsively goes out to a club, where she meets a handsome unnamed man (Arieh Worthalter) who lures her back to his car to make out. Paronnaud’s timely themes could help make this a popular pick for further festivals and theatrical exposure - including the US, where RLJE and Shudder will be handling distribution.Įve (Debay) is a stressed-out supervisor for a construction company, staying at a hotel overnight as part of a job. There’s sufficient gore, twists, and grindhouse weirdness here to propel word of mouth, which the film will need to boost play. Shot in Belgium with its location never specified, this is the English-language debut of Paronnaud, who co-directed Persopolis. Hunted gets progressively stranger as it rolls along Premiering at Fantasia, Hunted has all the ingredients for a crowd-pleasing midnight movie. Although it’s never wholly successful in either mode, Lucie Debay gives a fully committed, eventually downright feral performance as the latest target of a sociopath. French comic book artist and filmmaker Vincent Paronnaud immerses the viewer in this tense genre exercise, with the results falling somewhere between thought-provoking and stylishly pulpy. 87mins.Ī woman engages in an increasingly savage battle with her abductor in Hunted, a nasty little horror-thriller that aims to tap into the zeitgeist by turning a brutal standoff into a meditation on toxic masculinity and #metoo. ![]() Urbaniak quoted a 2016 blog post of Adams in which the “Dilbert” creator said, “Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump.Dir: Vincent Paronnaud. The comic strip creator has been outspoken about his political views both on Twitter and on his blog, where he previously endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016 and accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of stoking “violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me.”Īlso Read: 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Says His UPN Show Was Canceled Because He Was WhiteĪs actor James Urbaniak noted in response to Adams’ tweets, the threat of violence against Republican voters in response to Democratic electoral victories is a recurring theme in Adams’ political commentary. “Republicans will be hunted,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet, later adding, “Police will stand down.” “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made a fearful prediction about the 2020 presidential election on Twitter on Wednesday, telling his Republican followers that if Joe Biden is elected to the White House, “there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.” ![]()
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