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Yes, this is a major Deliverance rip-off. But not really. The basic premise is five city guys go hunting on a weekend getaway. You get an assortment of characters ranging from white collar to blue collar to grey collar. One guy is a sissy, one is a sloppy drunk, another is a weathered every-man, we get a streetwise middle ager and another is a stand up tax payer. But there's more. Each character is written well. At least, well enough to make this movie a bit of fun getting to the big surprise. When danger shows its face in the middle of the night, and the suspense really sets in once the carnage is in full swing, we still get characters who are written well enough to sustain interest. That's why Hunter's Blood is not just some Deliverance knock-off. True as it may be that the general story shares a lot of similarities, this movie is in a class of its own.
Music is a big part of Hunter's Blood. The score seems a little ahead of its time. It reminds me of Ry Cooder's score for Paris Texas, except it's not nearly as dreamy. There's an undercurrent of doom in there, but it's all rendered very well, and makes the terror that strikes that much more intense.
Violence is in no shortage, either. Things get really gruesome so, if you have a weak stomach, don't bother. But what would you expect from a Roger Corman affiliated venture? This was released direct to video on Embassy Home Entertainment, and the Manson film logo is basically a straight forgery of a Weintraub emblem just flipped upside down. What'cha gonna do? That's low budget film biz for ya.
I can watch this film at least once every few years. It has some really funny bits that elevate the b-movie mist into a higher territory. Something about this movie seems like it belongs to a more polished distribution house, and what could it have been had it been re-worked a bit more, polished and carefully carved into something that didn't bite so much off of Boorman's superior picture?
Who cares?
Enjoy it for what it is. A tense and rewarding exploitation film that has a good sets of balls on it and a decent ending for the time it was released. In fact, the ending owes a bit to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Hunter's Blood (1986)
Director: Robert C. Hughes
Director: Robert C. Hughes
Yes, this is a major Deliverance rip-off. But not really. The basic premise is five city guys go hunting on a weekend getaway. You get an assortment of characters ranging from white collar to blue collar to grey collar. One guy is a sissy, one is a sloppy drunk, another is a weathered every-man, we get a streetwise middle ager and another is a stand up tax payer. But there's more. Each character is written well. At least, well enough to make this movie a bit of fun getting to the big surprise. When danger shows its face in the middle of the night, and the suspense really sets in once the carnage is in full swing, we still get characters who are written well enough to sustain interest. That's why Hunter's Blood is not just some Deliverance knock-off. True as it may be that the general story shares a lot of similarities, this movie is in a class of its own.
Music is a big part of Hunter's Blood. The score seems a little ahead of its time. It reminds me of Ry Cooder's score for Paris Texas, except it's not nearly as dreamy. There's an undercurrent of doom in there, but it's all rendered very well, and makes the terror that strikes that much more intense.
Violence is in no shortage, either. Things get really gruesome so, if you have a weak stomach, don't bother. But what would you expect from a Roger Corman affiliated venture? This was released direct to video on Embassy Home Entertainment, and the Manson film logo is basically a straight forgery of a Weintraub emblem just flipped upside down. What'cha gonna do? That's low budget film biz for ya.
I can watch this film at least once every few years. It has some really funny bits that elevate the b-movie mist into a higher territory. Something about this movie seems like it belongs to a more polished distribution house, and what could it have been had it been re-worked a bit more, polished and carefully carved into something that didn't bite so much off of Boorman's superior picture?
Who cares?
Enjoy it for what it is. A tense and rewarding exploitation film that has a good sets of balls on it and a decent ending for the time it was released. In fact, the ending owes a bit to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.