Climate of the Hunter

Climate of the Hunter is an utterly perplexing film. It's stuffed with fantastic performances, bizarre humour, and a premise that is incomprehensible. This film is such a complete and utter vision. The costumes, the music, the lighting, and the bizarre 70's food... this is more then just a pastiche, this feels like an alien displaced from time decided to make a movie about humans.

I stumbled upon the 2019 horror mystery "Climate of the Hunter" and picked it up as I found the movie's cover to be interesting. And then I read the synopsis and I was definitely intrigued. So I sat down to watch this 2019 movie from writers Mickey Reece and John Selvidge without knowing anything else about the movie.

First of all, I will say that the atmosphere in the movie was definitely unique. They had managed to capture that 1970s feel well enough with costumes, props, music, make-up, hair styles, etc. And that definitely added a good layer to the movie.

And the characters in the movie were well detailed and fleshed out, and they certainly had some interesting and good actors and actresses to portray these characters.

Now, the flaw with "Climate of the Hunter" was the pacing. It was incredibly slow paced, and virtually nothing of any interest happened throughout the movie, which made for a very tedious and mind-numbingly dull movie to sit through.

This is hardly a movie that I would recommend you sit down to watch if you enjoy horror mysteries, much less a movie you should waste your money, time and effort on. Well, unless you like slow paced artistic type of movies, then you might find some enjoyment in "Climate of the Hunter".

My rating of this 2019 horror mystery lands on a mere three out of ten stars. I was sorely disappointed with what "Climate of the Hunter" actually turned out to be, and I had hoped for a more interesting and enjoyable movie. This is without a doubt a movie that I will never sit down to watch a second time.

Three middle aged persons meet after two decades ;each of them lives a complex life. The man has a defiant son, his sick wife gets into a mental institution, he returns to the place of his childhood. One of the two sisters remains unmarried, the other one suffers from disorders, abandoned by husband, has a daughter who is planning for having a child.

It is the skill of the various people that enable a simple story into a horror mystery that reminds me of the 70's and 80's Jean Rollin films, they are fantasies in which story gets into backside, we see lively paintings before us.

Alma (Ginger Gilmartin) and her sister Elizabeth (Mary Buss) welcome their friend Wesley (Ben Hall) after twenty years absence at a remote house in the woods. Wesley could be a vampire. They are joined by Wesley's son after father and son have a strange discussion about Wesley's wife.

My favorite scene is the son reading his story to the group. It is the highlight of the movie. It is awkward, strange, and intense. I would have liked for the movie to finish off over that night. The situation is not going to get any better than that. It is creepy and disturbing at the moment. The movie needs to milk that and finish it off with mounting intensity.

It's not really a horror or a mystery. More like an episode of Days of Our Lives set in The Twilight Zone. The 70s vibe is perfect in every way. I'd generally prefer something with more horror, action or bizarre narrative, like Terry Gilliam's work, but Climate of the Hunter is well made and offers something different.