{"id":39032,"date":"2023-03-02T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39032"},"modified":"2023-03-02T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T22:17:41","slug":"hunt-her-kill-her-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/hunt-her-kill-her-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt Her, Kill Her (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Directors Ryan Thiessen and Greg Swinson\u2019s \u201cHunt Her, Kill Her\u201d has a paper thin premise to work with and\u2014well, not much is done with it, sadly. I love a good survival horror movie, but \u201cHunt Her, Kill Her\u201d has a great opportunity that it sadly squanders. Despite original motivations for its central villains, Thiessen and Swinson\u2019s film is a middle of the road woman in peril invasion thriller. It\u2019s not a bad movie, but it never really re-invents the wheel when all is said and done. It\u2019s not to say that a movie of this sub-genre can\u2019t tread new ground (look at \u201cYou\u2019re Next\u201d and \u201cHush\u201d), but the movie always seems to settle for the minimum. This keeps the movie from hitting highs.<\/p>\n

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The film centers on Karen (Natalie Terrazino) on an otherwise peaceful evening during her first night on the job as a lone night shift janitor. She soon finds herself in an unexpected fight for survival when she becomes the target of a group of sinister masked intruders. As the intruders\u2019 disturbing motives become clearer, Karen must use her crafty instincts and barbaric violence to make it through the night alive.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a ton of big build up to the central narrative, and much of the exposition for Karen involves some clumsily staged phone calls and plot points. There\u2019s also some baffling moves made in the narrative. Why would she get a job at a place that the friends of her abusive ex husband work? The entire film is set in a warehouse in the middle of the night, which is perfect fodder for a potential stalk and slash thriller. It\u2019s just there\u2019s not a ton of character to the initial setting that the directors drop our heroine in to. Everything in the place seems conveniently staged for the sake of pretty far fetched twists. Not to mention the foursome of masked maniacs rarely feel imposing of horrifying.<\/p>\n

Granted, the directors know how to build on their personas, but often times they come off as pure push overs. It\u2019s hard to take them seriously when one of them is literally strangled by Karen with a rope, considering she\u2019s half his size. There\u2019s another moment involving a plunger that I was never sure was meant as a bit of dark comedy, or was supposed to be taken seriously. In either case, Natalie Terrazino\u2019s performance is solid, and she\u2019s an interesting protagonist. She doesn\u2019t go full Rambo when the script demands it, but she\u2019s clever and wily enough to give the film\u2019s villains a very hard time. I enjoyed a lot of her tricks and schemes in her efforts to escape and fight back.<\/p>\n

She was very believable as a woman who was once a victim, now forced to retaliate as much as she can. The directors don\u2019t lay out much hope for her, either. I just wish there was more tension injected to the cat and mouse scenes, as well as more explanation toward the villains motivations. There are implications as to what happened prior to the film, but there\u2019s never full context, so it feels under developed. I was also not a fan of the ADR, a lot of which felt incredibly obvious. I don\u2019t know if there was background disturbance or whatnot, but the dialogue all feels either dubbed in, or canned. \u201cHunt Her, Kill Her\u201d might settle for good background noise, but in the annals of this sub-genre, you can do better.<\/p>\n

Opening Nationwide in 150 theaters on\u00a0March 3rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Directors Ryan Thiessen and Greg Swinson\u2019s \u201cHunt Her, Kill Her\u201d has a paper thin premise to work with and\u2014well, not much is done with it, sadly. I love a good survival horror movie, but \u201cHunt Her, Kill Her\u201d has a great opportunity that it sadly squanders. Despite original motivations for its central villains, Thiessen and […]<\/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":[477,703,950,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-39032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-slasher","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032","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=39032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39034,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032\/revisions\/39034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}