One of the best streaming services in the world, Shudder endeavors to elevate genre films that might otherwise get lost in the increasingly large shuffle of never-ending content. You know it's going to happen, it's just a matter of time when it will happen.“The company of wolves is better than that of men.” So says a woman to her son in the effective prologue to “Hunted,” the latest original horror film to land on Shudder today. You knew Thing was going to pop up eventually, it was just a question when it will show up. Carpenter played with us with "The Thing". Josh was very effective in building up tension where most of the tension comes from expecting things to happen, just like J. (first jump scare is actually really good because there's a huge build up to it) "The Haunted" reminded me of John Carpenter's "The Thing" at one point. They are not accompanied by loud orchestra music that will pierce your ears, they come naturally and usually have good build up before it, so they are earned and you as viewer are satisfied. Big thanks to Josh for not relying on jump scares too much, there are few of them, but they are not annoying like in most of modern horror movies.
Sometimes it's falls alarm, sometimes it's there. You'll hear that sound and know something is there, something is right in front of the characters.
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It's a horror movie that relays heavily on the sounds, which is perfect. Now, Josh clearly got influenced by Blair Witch Project (maybe unintentionally) because he manages to capture similar mood of that movie (only better in my opinion) and feeling of unease while characters are all alone in the woods surrounded by pitch black of the woods. It's has good atmosphere which is missing a lot from new horror movies, it fallows "the less is more" logic which works well for the movie, it's really tense in "night in the woods" scenes and it becomes very tense and creepy when things finally get going. Don't even read cast listing (it gives too much). Honestly, if you want to be surprised like I was, don't read anything about this movie. Then they soon realize they are the prey and something else in the woods in hunting them. The movie is about two guys, one of them being hunter Jake (Josh Stewart), the other his friend journalist Stevie (Ronnie Gene Blevins), who go out on private ranch to hunt animals and record it so Jake would get enough footage for his planned hunting show.
and that's coming from a horror veteran who nearly lost all hope in new(er) horror movies for relying either on too much jump scares or too much gore, or just plain old stupid guys doing stupid things in stupid screenplays, surviving only because script said so. Starring in all those horror movies recently really payed of for Josh, because he clearly picked up few tips on what scares the people. Even bigger surprise was "Directed and written by Josh Stewart". movie, but also a very effective horror movie. and to my surprise, this turned out to be not only really good P.O.V. Then I saw Josh Stewart and thought "Ok it might not be that bad". I went with this movie not knowing much about it, so when I first saw it was POV\FF format I thought "Oh boy, not again" because last movie I saw as in fact a terrible found footage movie (not to be named here).
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