The Hunt
(2005/Image/Graymark)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Feature: D
The only
reason people still talk about Fritz Kiersch’s Children Of The Corn is because too many forgot about Village Of The Damned, even though John
Carpenter remade the film relatively recently.
Kiersch was not able to capitalize on his noteworthy success, but never
succeeded. The Hunt is a goofy, remarkably bad project he made in 2005 and
would have never been made if video was not so cheap.
A man,
his stepson and cameraman go to make a special interest hunting title only to
find they are being followed by something subhuman and stupidly human. You never know when this is supposed to be
serious and the point of no return is when the stepson is in constant jeopardy
or violence and death, the cheap low point that makes this out to be the nadir
of Kiersch’s career. It is dumb to begin
with and outright awful from there. The
acting is awful, camerawork in all forms a mess and 90 minutes was way too long
for this.
The DVD case
brags that it “combines horrific elements of The Blair Witch Project and Predator”
but makes Predator look like Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom in depth
and intelligence. Too bad a Predator did
not annihilate the script, if there was one.
Any comparison to Blair is a
red alert to stay away like bubonic plague to begin with.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 was shot on at least one video format and
shows it, but at least color was not gutted out, though the video used has
plenty of color and detail limits. The
Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo mixes show the limits of the recorded sound,
but are not as echo-full as expected.
Extras include a trailer and making of piece, but they are as lame as
the final product. Hunt for another DVD
instead.
- Nicholas Sheffo
