Hunted

Name: Hunted
Director: Vincent Paronnaud
Released: 2021

Synopsis

A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.

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Paste Magazine
Hunted doesn’t exactly rewrite the original tale, but it doesn’t have to. It just has to have teeth, and Paronnaud’s kept those canines sharp and savage.
60
The Guardian
Thankfully, we only see glimpses of the footage of tortured women on the hideously believable nemesis’s camera, so ultimately the movie – just about – feels more like a critique of the character’s woman-hating mindset rather than a vehicle for it.
50
Slant Magazine
Hunted intends to make a show of our desensitization to predator-prey relationships, but the greater purpose of its self-awareness never quite comes into clear focus.
50
Screen Daily
For all the big themes rustling around in Hunted, they lack the startling ferocity that develops on Eve’s face — for her, there’s nothing theoretical about this study of predatory male behaviour.
50
Movie Nation
The half-hearted lean into “jokey” means that Hunted never gets under your skin and transitions into a visceral experience.
50
RogerEbert.com
There’s a better version of Hunted that either leans more into its surreal flights of fancy or settles into gritty, tense realism. Hunted gets caught in the middle.
50
Austin Chronicle
It's a hodgepodge of wildly divergent narrative styles, from the mystical to the grisly and into the ridiculous.
40
The New York Times
Adding a fairy-tale cast to a generic horror setup is of no benefit to Hunted, Vincent Paronnaud’s unpleasant merger of slasher movie and survival thriller.