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Hounded (2022) is a UK addition to the horror genre that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows a group of robbers who decide to break into the wrong family's home in the English countryside. The family captures them and sets them loose on their countryside land to be hunted, fox hunting style. Can any of the robbers survive the hunt?

This movie is directed by Tommy Boulding, in his directorial debut, and stars Malachi Pullar-Latchman (Shark Bait), Samantha Bond (Die Another Day), James Lance (Bronson), Hannah Traylen (Boiling Point) and Katrina Syran (The Lady from the Sea).

This movie was actually set up pretty well with entertaining characters, intense circumstances and an authentic premise. The acting is actually pretty good and the brother relationship felt realistic. There's a rock wall scene to start the movie that was entertaining as is the use of a bear trap. I also appreciated the solid use of dogs. However, this is one of those movies where everything felt like it needed to be taken a step further. The kills were okay, but could have been more gory. The characters could have been more aggressive, which would have created more intensity. And the ending was solid, but not as dramatic as intended. The best part of the movie was the outfits, settings and outcomes of the villains.

Overall, this is another addition to the horror genre that's almost good, but needed to press the envelope a little further. I would score this a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Well, at first after seeing it has only 4.7/10 I did not expect much. I actually thought it might be one of those movies you stop watching after first 15 minutes of it....however I was in for a quite surprise :) It has huuuge potential and great general primesse. It was shot nicely, some interesting scenec and concepts. Samantha Bond is just brilliant. Now, the plot and the screenplay do suffer from cliches and obvious expectations, hence I almost gave it 7/10 if there weren't for such a messy third act. In all generalsenes I would enjoy a sequel. Anyhow, nice little indie film. Do give it a watch and don't let such a low ratings turn you away from it. Cheers.

Four pals are quite adept at ripping off wealthy country houses whilst their owners are off at a posh soirée or the opera or something, so are more than ready to break into the stately "Redwick Hall" and help themselves. Thing is, though, it's all a trap. After a bit of tasering they wake up in a field to meet the lady of the manor clad in finest hunting pink (Samantha Bond) who has had just about enough of the lambs trying to rule the lions, so she sets them free and tells them to get lost. Except, well before they get very far they hear some barking... Lots of barking... Yep, this isn't a fox hunt. These are banned, don't you know. This is an hunt for more of the lesser spotted two legged beastie and they'd better get a-running. So far, yes it sounds terrible and I am afraid that is doesn't get any better as they try to escape from their perilous predicament in one piece. I thought at first it was going to be a comedy. Bond's tongue is most definitely in her cheek and the presence of James Faulkner and Nick Moran encouraged me to think that there must a be joke coming along soon. Nope, the joke was on me, as this amateur bobbins took away ninety minutes of my life and left my wondering why on earth anyone thought this would work. Malachi Pullar-Latchman and Hannah Traylen take centre stage for the burglar's alliance but they make very little impact as the story takes just about every opportunity it can to underwhelm. If there's a cleverly disguised message here about the entitled classes or those who just take what they cannot afford themselves, then it was wasted on me as this just lurched, ridiculously, from silly to sillier. Skip it, I'd say.

Hounded was a surprisingly good film, I thought the acting was decent to the best it could be was not expecting samatha bond to be a villian but she plays the character in an unsettling way. She plays kathrine redwick, a wealthy person that larry lamb wants four teenagers to nick a dagger from, somehing they dont ask questions about. Chaz, vix, leon and and tod are down on their luck and chaz is tying to get his brother through college, but after getting caught in the ladies house the group finds themselves being chased by the four horsemen and dogs that know where they are going. Its pretty gory and grizzly in ways and you rout for the young ones. Overall i thought this was a pretty good thriller.

I quite enjoyed this movie, as with most British movies they have a different feel to those made in Hollywood but no less enjoyable.

The plot is quite literally bonkers and those dogs are clearly having so much fun that's it's hard to believe that they would do anything dangerous.

The one thing I couldn't get out of my head throughout the entire movie was Paul Whitehouses character Ted from The Fast Show. Not that Paul is in this movie but the gamekeeper is such a caricature, I wouldn't have been surprised if Ralph had turned up at some point!

Overall a fun and different movie but complete nonsense.