Hunt Her, Kill Her

The protagonist isn't set up to be likable. The characters around her are awful people, but that doesn't translate to her being someone we care about. Very little character development and then she's thrown into a never-ending chase scene. Also the twist and villain's motivations were obvious from the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Another review mentions the only other person in the theater with them was on their phone the whole movie, and I would wager it was because they were bored. Good movies make me forget about time but I checked my watch a bunch during this one.

This paragraph is just to make my review long enough for the new six hundred character requirement instituted because Amazon's $1Billion snow ranked and got bombed on this site. Hopefully they change it back because this is a waste of my and everyone else's time for quite literally seemingly absolutely no reason. Boom six hundred characters.

I found this movie on Tubi. Compared to many of the movies that they have, this one is good. The plot is simple, but there are some thrilling moments. The movie does a good job with the gore. The main actress was OK

Some scenes, though, require suspension of belief. The main character gets injured several times, yet just a few minutes later, the movie basically ignores those injuries as if it never happened, making her appear 100% healthy. We also get eye-rolling scenes where a small woman handles some 200 pound grown men

But the main issue with the film, is repetitiveness. The hunting / chasing scenes make up the bulk of the film, as you'd expect. But after a while, it really felt like we going over the same ground repeatedly.

This was a bad movie. The direction, the acting, the camera work, the script, everything except the extremely thin premise was a bomb from the get go. Ranks as the worst movie I've seen so far this year and undoubtably will rank in my top 10 worst by the end of the year. I can't believe I sat through the whole thing. Where was the tension? Why are these men so organized, almost like they played Call Of Duty a billion times before doing this? But, on the other hand, they are so dumb that they cannot come up with a plan to catch this chick other than the extremely basic one that we get set up with in the first place? Why is this chick so dumb herself? She couldn't make a life/time saving desicion if it was the last thing she does. Why weren't any of the machines in the shop used for killing anyone, when it was teased for so long towards the end? Why did they write this as a mystery if they were going to make it so blatently obvious who the villians are and why they are doing this? Why, why, why? I have about 100 other whys for this film, but I'm not going to bother asking them because I already know the answer. The director and producer are numbskulls who thought this would be a good idea but had no clue on how to execute it properly, let alone write a decent script or direct their actors appropriately. I feel bad for the actors because the script does them no favors. The bad guys sound like generic npc villians from a video game and all the other dialouge ranges from unbelievable to downright laughable. Nobody talks like this in person, nor would they act the way they do. Also, how do you not know when you're stepping on something, such as someones hand hanging from a ledge when you are literally looking for a person? Not even a glance to see what it was. Just dumb and reinforced my idea of this basically being video game cutscenes for a video game they didn't have the money to make. I could not recommend you stay away from this dumpster fire more. I got ripped off, don't let it happen to you. The 10's on this site were no doubt written by someone involved in the making of this film. Has to be, because the film could be a fun parody if it wasn't for the boring, derivitave and ultra serious tone it has throughout.

0 idiotic desicions out of 5.

Hunt Her, Kill Her (AKA Night Shift)

Very low-budget 'cat(s) 'n' mouse' survival thriller. Karen (Natalie Terrazzino), a recently separated/divorced mother of one, takes a job as the sole night shift janitor at a large factory. On her first night she's confronted by four knife-wielding, masked intruders, whose sole aim is to kill her. Cue one hour and 20 minutes of the most ridiculously unbelievable 'female John McClane' running, hiding, and fighting.

By the time this was made movies were well into the 'cast a non-conventionally attractive female lead' era - we weren't going to get a Milla Jovovich-type. Thing is, Jovovich (just as an example), as well as being attractive, sells the action. She looks credible running and fighting. I get that 'Karen' isn't a trained warrior, she's just an average single-mom trying to make ends meet, and I get that that could be an interesting story to tell - but if that's what you're going for you have to adjust her methods and onscreen abilities accordingly; otherwise it just becomes laughable. We have a short, dumpy, completely non-athletic woman regularly outsprinting guys who look a foot taller with a stride to match. In one shot we'll see them rapidly closing on her (because the actress clearly cannot run) - then they'll all turn a corner and from the new angle we see they're way behind her again! 😄 The only times they catch-up is when there's a convenient small space for her to slip through at the last moment! I get suspension of disbelief - but at least cast an actress who looks like she jogs once in a while! As for the fighting... Again, 6'2" dudes with *very* nasty looking knives, vs mom-with-a-belly and cleaning products! We all know that most fights in movies are completely unrealistic;. If Statham/Stallone/Van Damme were really trapped in a room with a bunch of guys who were all fellow special forces badasses they'd be dead meat - but at least they manage to make it look believable. There's one fight in this movie involving a toilet plunger that looks like something from an Austin Powers movie! Add in several injuries involving heavy blood loss and bone breakage that 30 seconds later don't seem to have impeded her ability to run/fight at all, a 'twist' re the perpetrators that's obvious from about 15 minutes in (and that you've probably guessed already), poor acting all round, and ludicrous dialogue ('Don't let her escape!' - has *anyone* chasing anyone *ever* actually shouted that? 😄), and you get a very poor movie. I'll give it credit for some good effects on the injury detail, a cool synth score, and a nice title. 4/10.

Reminded me a lot of the film P2 in it's situational element. Lone victim in structure against the nemesis, in this case 5 persons intent on killing the victim. What I found most interesting in the concept of a "Reverse Slasher", where-as instead of a killer picking off the victim group, you have a victim who must come to realize they have no choice but to kill their way of the situation. The actor in question, Natalie Terrazzino did an excellent job at traversing the initial terror into that realization. The kills, one by one, were excellent. The duck, doge and weave, cat and mouse play was filmed with precision.

I'm a sucker for these types of films, with Slashers being my favorite sub-genre of horror. So I am always excited to experience a twist on the formula, especially one as delicious as a reversing of the typical tropes and expected content line. (Not that I mind formulaic clones, I adore them, as I adore slashers and actually expect them to follow the formula to my satisfaction. As long the "Pretty people in peril" are to my liking and the story, twists and general vibes are good, I'm happy as a jack-knife in a vengeful victim's hands...lol)

Here the kills were tasty, the "FAFO" moments were a chef's kiss and the ending quite satisfying. The extra bonus of throwing in a role reversal and making it work is the cherry on that bloody birthday cake. 8.4/10 without reservation. VERY glad to have it in my collection, the beautiful physical release is worth every penny. Highly recommended for horror/slasher fans...and as usual, 2 high flying birds to the typical horror haters.