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Hunter's Blood
(Redneck/Woods/Slasher) 8********skulls
*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *Sexual Situations* *Nudity* *Gory*
Director.............Robert C. Hughes (Down the Drain)
Screenplay.......Emmett Alston
Music................John D'Andrea
Producer...........Myrl A. Schreibman
Executive Producer.....Judith F. Schuman
Songs by Dy Dan Hamilton
Based on a Novel by Jere Cunningham
Dramatis Personae
Mason Rand........Clu Gulagher (Hunter's Blood, Return of the Living Dead)
David Rand.........Samuel Bottoms (Dolly Dearest, New Land of the Lost-TV)
Ralph Coleman...Mayf Nutter (Petronella)
Al Coleman.........Ken Swofford (Black Roses, Gambler-Part II, Sky Heist)
Marty Adler.........Joey Travolta (Night of the Wilding, Wilding)
Red Beard...........Lee de Broux
One Eye..............Bruce Glover (Ghost Town, Hider in the House)
Snake.................Billy Drago (Cyborg 2, Delta Force 2, The Untouchables)
Woody................Charles Cyphers (The Fog, Halloween, Halloween II)
Melanie..............Kim Delaney (Body Parts, Campus Man, All My Children-TV, CSI Miami-TV)
Purty...................Bryan Rasmussen
Critique: Though obviously strikingly derivitive of Deliverance, and for all the right reasons, Hunter's Blood elegantly dances away from redneck movie traps, say by not raping the fake Ned Beatty (Mayf Nutter). Indeed, with a first-class cast and script, this is no mere knock-off.
Marty gets the best offer he could ever get when Al tells him they'll be drinking buddies for life.
Plot Summary: Mason, his son, David, Al and Al's brother Ralph are regular hunters. On this trip they bring along Marty who is Al's client's son. Marty claims he's bagged dozens of deer. The hunters drive deep into the back woods and stop at a gas station where Dave makes the mistake of calling his wife and telling her to meet him at the filling station. Marty insists on photographing the locals eating ribs. Peace appears to be made when Mason pulls out the film. Well, they go to the bar for a beer. Unfortunately, Dave decides that he should play with the hick waitress. He claims that he is Bruce Springsteen's cousin and was in a dirt-run in Louisiana and his girl was killed. When he graphically shows the waitress where she was hit with the flywheel, a confrontation ensues. Clu faces them down. The rednecks, however, follow them on the dirt roads. Your mother could have gotten away as the 30,000 dollar Bronco lives up to its billing. Mason and Dave run into some rangers who tell them that the locals are poachers who sell meat to a chain and they are dumb to hunt these woods. Al tells a tale of strange in-bred redneck tribal wildmen or escaped convicts who live in these woods. In fact Al can't get a local crew to work on the site and had to hire outsiders. Ralph and Marty are nervous. Everybody gets drunk and theorizes about manhood and hunting. They bond. That night said in-breds show up at the campsite. They claim that the woods belong to them that can hold them. Mason and Dave save the day by having been outside the camp. The next day Marty wanders into the redneck camp. Mason challenges their toughest guy to a fight and it looks like it's not going that well. Fortunately, a ranger shows up. Unfortunately, as they are being marched off, he is bushwhacked. When the boys find the strung up body, they know things have gone from bad to worse. Soon the shooting starts again and it doesn't look good. Worse, Melanie shows up at the filling station asking about some deer hunters in a Bronco. One of the locals says that he had a few beers with them and offers to bring her to the site. She accepts the kind offer as most anyone would after driving two hundred miles. As the boys head on the the hike toward the highway the redneck cackling that echoes through the woods provides enough horror for anyone. Dave gets Purty with a shot that opens his head like a melon. Good job when a movie makes you yell to to to do this or that. Why not slit the guy's throat when you get the chance? Dave is caught in a trap and finds his wife there who's already there ready to be raped. Fortunately the race is on again and Dave and Melanie show up at a train. It looks like they've gotten gotten away when it turns out the train is owned by razorback meat company.
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