The 7th Hunt

The constant need to make SAW type films, or supernatural and horror films is just mind-boggling. Indie films in Australia need to wake up and stop making poor intimation. It's hard making a film and efforts to all who made it but there is no excuse for poor character development, poor storytelling and extremely bad casting. This was so bad I saw someone walk out of the screening and never came back. I want everyone to succeed but we need need to stop making bad films. This is so cringy its so embarrassing. I actually feel bad for the cast and crew. It's hard to watch this film, it has nothing going for it at all except the looks of Imogen Bailey. Sorry I honestly tried to support this film but please dont waste your time. Films need strong compelling story and characters, they must be interesting and they must have emotion. Even for a saw style film, you must have some sort of emotion, likability of the main character. 1 star for effort.

So I'm only 30 minutes into this film whilst writing the review... As an Australian I feel a duty to apologise to the world for this film.

In terms of a horror/gore/terror movie the concept is promising for a low budget movie. The production quality is reasonably good but Wolf Creek it ain't, SAW it ain't... The 'acting' is beyond appalling... It's barely at the level of a bad high school play.

Ultimately... very disappointing and tossing up whether to keep watching it or go and do some laundry...

There's literally no hunting so I'd like to know why it's called "The 7th Hunt".

I'd also like to know why this was re-released in 2021 as "The Hunt" with almost NO changes. The only change being that they removed the scene of The Hacker that played at the end while the credits rolled.

The acting is bad, even for a low-budget Australian movie, the story is kinda terrible because, again, THERE IS NO FRIGGIN HUNTING, and the ending falls flat pretty quickly but at least the women are cute. Especially Callie.

If you HAVE to watch this movie, though, you should probably go watch the 2021 re-release instead.

A worthwhile horror/thriller that is more complex than just a killer knocking off victims for no discernible reason, too many low budget horror films lack a solid reason more than just wrong place, wrong time.

The story is more psychological than just cold blooded murder, and the victims are not innocent victims being slaughtered, each one has been studied and found lacking in some way.

The killers have a method to their killing and seem chillingly convinced of their own rightness in what they do. There was gore, but the best thing is that it wasn't over done.

The blood-letting was used effectively. I thought the whole ride was pretty entertaining.

Firstly, anyone who compares this to the Saw franchise has massively misunderstood all the films, I can only assume, because they only watched them for the torture and gore without paying the slightest bit of attention to the storylines. It's like comparing Les Mis to The Muppets because they both have singing.

Anyway back to the film. This is a 3hr film crammed into 92mins and made on a 2 dollar budget. The idea of blood sports involving humans isn't a new one, but this take on it is at least reasonably original. "Five killers, five victims, one aim - to survive" accurate but misleading, the film does not focus so much on the victims but seemed to be trying to look at what in their pasts sent the killers down this path. Each killer has their own methods and reasons for killing, the only this keeping them together is mutually assured destruction (they each know the others names and crimes). The victims themselves are less important than the reasons they were chosen. However despite being able to see the writers intent in this film, the end product is underwhelming to say the least as everything is too rushed to give anything any depth. As soon as any explanation starts someone dies and the film moves on. You can't even really care about the victims because they're more or less a 5 word bio and some screaming.