Such a frustrating disappointment

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Deliverance, Rituals & now Hunter's Blood.Between the 3 & my favorite still has to be...... Rituals.Hunter's Blood was a good enough movie that's worth watching at least once & something I'd tell somebody to watch if they were thinking about watching it but it wasn't all that great.I watched it for the 1st time yesterday & watching it for the 1st time after reading the movie description, I was excited.I couldn't wait to see it.As it went on, the excitement wore off & it was a movie that was just there.Hunter's Moon is definitely NO Rituals.I'd still tell anybody to go see Hunter's Blood if they got a chance to see it but it's not a movie that I'd be really curious to know what their opinion of it was after they watched it.If they liked it then good but if they didn't that's fine too.Rituals is still a better movie than Deliverance & Hunter's Blood ........Rituals

I know why people give this decent reviews....because it had potential to be amusing cheesy 80's but it's not. The acting is awful, the story we've seen a dozen times (even by 1986), and the soundtrack sounds like they just grabbed anyone to do it. What really sucks is that with a better script and direction this had potential. Some actors who are known to give good performances are totally wasted in this mess of a movie. Clu Gulager tries to give his character more depth than it deserves. Bruce Glover (yes crispies dad) is just an annoying "crazy redneck" stereotype "one eye" lol. Billy Drago is wasted in a very minor role. If your in the mood to abuse yourself with almost 2 hours of a film nobody needed go ahead. Not on DVD yet save your $20 the VHS goes for. You've been warned.Go watch Rituals instead.

Five macho but supposedly civilized men take off to the unexplored Arkansas woods to do some old-fashioned deer hunting. There they encounter a bunch of aggressive and large-scale poachers that don't really appreciate strangers trespassing their business. After a couple of banal showdowns follows a truly violent and merciless hunting contest that'll demand many lives! This rather unknown and underrated 80's exploitation movie opens rather slow and ordinary, with redundant speeches about manhood and the art of deer-hunting, but the exciting and genuinely suspenseful hunting sequences during the last half hour widely make up for this. This cool 80's gem has perhaps stolen its storyline and most essential moments from classic blockbusters like "Deliverance" and "the Deer Hunter", but the raw violence and effective shocks are director Hughes' very own merit. The film contains a couple of very graphic make-up effects, like a stabbing through the neck and a very eerie close-up shotgun killing. Many 80's horror movies feature undistinguished (to say the least) Southern folks as unhinged killers and the cast members of "Hunter's Blood" definitely belong to the most successfully menacing Rednecks ever. The filming locations are very impressive and even the photography is surprisingly professional. Keep also an eye open for Billy Bob Thornton in a very small role as background redneck. Recommended!

Spoilers AheadLooking back on films my parents forbidden me to watch Hunter's Blood was one of them. From a very early of retro hair cuts to action force figures my parents let me watch film r rated from a very early age. I think I saw Predator when I was eight years old and it never wounded emotionally like some parents think it will. My Father came home with Hunter's Blood one day as the front cover it S**t Hot. We starting watching it and my father many times through the films kept repeating `It's like Deliverance this'. Deliverance was one film that was kept from me as my parents thought I would never have understood the nature of seeing a man rape a man and I think it was best for my eyes to be protected by the movie and for that I thank them but years after when I finally got to see Deliverance I thought back to Hunter's Blood and thought that it was actually a lot better than Deliverance. What John Boorman created with Deliverance was something that no director at the time could pull off and that was the intensity of the scenes where the hill billies arrive. We all hear the myth of what hill billies get up to when they are not hunting and through Deliverance you are constantly questioning what is going to happen to Jon Voight and Ned Beatty. Of course it was pure shock on the audience faces when it finally came to the crunch of what happened next but I still think Hunter's Blood has one up on Deliverance.I haven't seen it for a good ten years so whilst reviewing this please excuse me if a muddle up bit's of the story but I will first give an outline of what I remember most. A young man who has a wife and young child is going hunting with his father and uncle and some friends. They all gun ho and ready to do some serious hunting in the outback. They bump into a huge amount of hill billy boys and a fight occurs. The father of the young man gets shot and is bleeding heavily but they manage to escape to ry and find help but get lost. The wife of the young man arrives in the woods unexpectedly to join them on the trip and everything from there goes wrong and they are fighting for their lives. Oh and one last thing that stands out is the town where they are going hunting are famous for having a pig factory where they kill pigs to turn them into bacon or something like that and when the good guys finally make their escape at the end they hop onto a train and they think they are away to safety only for the camera to cut outside to the back of the train and see the pig factory logo indicating that the train belongs to the hill billies. Phew………………now for a rest.Like I said my memory of the film is hazy but I think I got what I said then right. So many scenes from this films stay with me afterwards as the action never stops and it is literally a cat and mouse chase throughout the entire movie and really haunts you afterwards. Deliverance had charm and wasn't just about a bunch of guys who out hunting and then to be raped by other men, it is about friendship and where your loyalty lies amongst friends. Hunter's Blood haves that but also has the action to go along with it and that's why films of this genre always stick in my mind along with others like Southern Comfort and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A real treat of a film that deserves cult status.