The Hunt Review: 8 Ups & 5 Downs

By Simon Gallagher / March 25, 2020

7. It Revels In F*cking With You

You really have to admire a film that sets out, from the very first moment, to absolutely mess with everything you think you knew about it.

It doesn't just throw in narrative twists and turns, it establishes false protagonists (more of which soon), takes away all understood concept of horror tropes (almost as a consciously defiant black mirror to something like The Cabin In The Woods) and hides a huge stunt casting decision until almost the very end. Damn IMDB for ruining it, though.

The Hunt is built on quicksand and it loves the fact. You can almost see the film-makers to the right of the curtain laughing as every thing you thought was coming falls apart.