{"id":38383,"date":"2014-06-24T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38383"},"modified":"2023-01-02T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T11:38:24","slug":"hunting-the-legend-2014-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/hunting-the-legend-2014-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting the Legend (2014) (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 2008, during a father son hunting trip, Christopher Copeland\u2019s dad left behind a smear of blood and a gun. Presuming he\u2019d been dragged in to the woods, Christopher and the police searched for his dad to no avail. Fast forward to 2014 where, assuming his dad was dragged off by Bigfoot, Christopher and his friends team together to walk in to the woods, argue, chase noises, argue, get lost, argue some more, and eventually die off-screen set to ambient sounds of local wildlife.<\/p>\n

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When the most convincing performance in your movie is a trained German shepherd you know you have problems, and \u201cHunting the Legend\u201d is essentially ninety minutes of nothing. There is absolutely nothing here. It\u2019s a lot of people running around in the woods screaming in the air, screaming at the dark, and screaming at one another. There\u2019s no peek of any kind of monster present, if there was ever one. There\u2019s a hint that Christopher and his friends were really just being stalked by a serial killer, but it\u2019s all so haphazardly tossed in as an afterthought, you don\u2019t care enough to research the movie more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what the hell that inscription in the closing scene meant, and frankly I\u2019m too annoyed by the sheer empty void that is \u201cHunting the Legend\u201d to find out. At one point there\u2019s a five minute camp scene where the guard of the group is standing ground, and eventually falls asleep. Cut to the next morning where Christopher\u2019s guide is screaming about leaving, insisting that they caught something on tape. After five minutes of arguing, we never see the actual damn tape. I have my own theory about \u201cHunting The Legend.\u201d In 2008, Christopher\u2019s dad abandoned him and ran off with the man in the cabin for a love affair.<\/p>\n

Years later, Christopher went searching for his dad in the woods, unaware his dad was really in Hawaii running a surfboard hut with his lover Franco. Meanwhile Christopher led his group of friends and a poor dog in to the woods to be eaten by bears, and killed by a mountain man who mistook them for trespassers. Hey, it\u2019s better than anything you\u2019ll see in \u201cHunting the Legend\u201d that\u2019s for damn sure. With found footage movies, there\u2019s a thin line between people facing the fear of the unknown, and morons running around in the dark chasing noises.<\/p>\n

Guess which kind of found footage film \u201cHunting the Legend\u201d is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2008, during a father son hunting trip, Christopher Copeland\u2019s dad left behind a smear of blood and a gun. Presuming he\u2019d been dragged in to the woods, Christopher and the police searched for his dad to no avail. Fast forward to 2014 where, assuming his dad was dragged off by Bigfoot, Christopher and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38385,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38383\/revisions\/38385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}