Synopsis
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
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Cast
- Betty GilpinCrystal
- Hilary SwankAthena
- Ethan SupleeGary
- Teri WybleLiberty
- Ike BarinholtzStaten Island
- Wayne DuvallDon
- Emma RobertsYoga Pants
- Christopher BerryTarget
- Sturgill SimpsonVanilla Nice
- Kate NowlinBig Red
Recommendations
- 92
TheWrap
Zobel’s film grapples directly with the political spectrum and uses everything we love and hate about each other as fodder for humor and horror. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The Hunt stuffs a satire grenade down America’s pants, hoping the shrapnel spreads from sea to shining sea. The explosion is messy, but it sure is an explosion, with a brisk hour-and-half runtime full of violent twists and cackling turns. - 80
IGN
Director Zobel and writers Lindelof and Cuse, peering through the lens of social media hijinks and polarized politics, paint a ridiculous picture of how we’re all eating ourselves alive. That they do so in such a fun and absurdly bloody way makes The Hunt worth a retweet at the very least. - 67
IndieWire
Combining the droll self-satisfaction of a New Yorker cartoon with the wet gore of an Eli Roth movie, Zobel’s tense, well-crafted, and deviant grindhouse take on the national temperature has no trouble caricaturing what ails us, but even that fun combo lacks the killer instinct required to see us more clearly than we see each other. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
This action-drenched roller-coaster of a film tries to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to generating a tidal wave of violence — but it undeniably delivers the goods when it comes to action and impudence. - 50
Polygon
The movie’s mock-jaundiced attitude toward social media is itself satirical, and there’s a germ of a funny idea about how principled liberals can get entangled in pointless social media battles and infighting. But it’s eclipsed by an unavoidably moneyed perspective that presumes privileged people are inherently liberal, rather than attacking the hypocrisy of rich liberals in particular. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film was almost canceled for being too partisan, so it’s ironic to discover that it’s practically apolitical. - 40
The Guardian
In making the worst stereotypes of America’s political poles as extreme as possible, and America’s divide as literal and violent as possible, The Hunt feigns a viewpoint rather than actually having one. It takes aim at everyone, redeeming no one. Which feels circular, and queasy, and right back where we started: some empty talk about a divided nation, and a film thats probably not worth this much conversation.
