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The summer of 1974, four young people are all ambushed and left unconscious. They wake up deep in the woods with no one around but the sound of a hunting horn.The summer of 1974, four young people are all ambushed and left unconscious. They wake up deep in the woods with no one around but the sound of a hunting horn.The summer of 1974, four young people are all ambushed and left unconscious. They wake up deep in the woods with no one around but the sound of a hunting horn.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
Jørn Bjørn Fuller Gee
- Jørgen
- (as Jørn-Bjørn Fuller-Gee)
Janne Beate Bønes
- Renate
- (as Janne Starup Bønes)
Trym Hagen
- Gutt i tre
- (as Trym E. Hagen)
Jeppe Beck Laursen
- Jeger 2
- (as Jeppe Laursen)
Kristofer Hivju
- Mann 2
- (as Kristoffer Hivju)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis film takes place in 1974, which is the year the Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released, and which this film references throughout.
- GoofsA piece of dirt on Camilla's cheek disappears between shots.
- Alternate versionsIn Germany there exists two versions for the movie: FSK Keine Jugendfreigabe which is cut by 4 minutes and SPIO/JK approved which is also cut by 3 minutes. The following scenes were added to SPIO/JK version
- A woman getting shot by a rifleman
- A woman getting shot by a shotgun and her leg explodes, causing blood and gore to pop on the screen.
- Sight of a woman attempting to escape while running away from the hunter
- A hunter approaches a dead corpse and carves it with a knife
- Some shootings are allowed at SPIO/JK version.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Cannibal Forest (2009)
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Visually great, sadly lacking in originality
I'm all for films paying homage to other 'genre-defining' movies, however 'Manhunt' doesn't so much as pay homage to its predecessors like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wrong Turn, as completely rip them off.
It's about a foursome of young students who go into the mountains, only to be picked off by various redneck hunters. There's nothing wrong with that as a premise, but only if it's done in an original or slightly different way. However, it's just not. Manhunt is basically every other film of that genre, just set in a different country (oh, and there's subtitles for those of you who don't like non-English speaking films).
Unfortunately, some of the teens being stalked are completely unlikeable, one man even going as far as to practically terrorise his girlfriend and physically abuse her BEFORE the rednecks even get them. With characters like that, you can hardly work up much sympathy when they're murdered by the (real) baddies. And those we are supposed to like are just too stupid to relate to. When being hunted they never stop giving away their position by screaming for their separated friends.
Also, the film adheres to every slasher cliché in the book: chased through woods. Check. Rednecks. Check. Camper van and hitchhiker. Check. And so on.
We're never told anything about the redneck hunters and their motives. They don't even speak, leaving us to wonder why they're doing what they do.
Apart from the gore (which is very good/brutal, depending on what you like) and the cinematography (which is also nicely shot, creating a bleak and brooding atmosphere with the use of colour pallet), Manhunt will never be a classic. Just a rip-off that offers nothing new. I know I've slated it here, but actually it's not that bad. It's only real flaw is how totally unoriginal it is. Pity.
It's about a foursome of young students who go into the mountains, only to be picked off by various redneck hunters. There's nothing wrong with that as a premise, but only if it's done in an original or slightly different way. However, it's just not. Manhunt is basically every other film of that genre, just set in a different country (oh, and there's subtitles for those of you who don't like non-English speaking films).
Unfortunately, some of the teens being stalked are completely unlikeable, one man even going as far as to practically terrorise his girlfriend and physically abuse her BEFORE the rednecks even get them. With characters like that, you can hardly work up much sympathy when they're murdered by the (real) baddies. And those we are supposed to like are just too stupid to relate to. When being hunted they never stop giving away their position by screaming for their separated friends.
Also, the film adheres to every slasher cliché in the book: chased through woods. Check. Rednecks. Check. Camper van and hitchhiker. Check. And so on.
We're never told anything about the redneck hunters and their motives. They don't even speak, leaving us to wonder why they're doing what they do.
Apart from the gore (which is very good/brutal, depending on what you like) and the cinematography (which is also nicely shot, creating a bleak and brooding atmosphere with the use of colour pallet), Manhunt will never be a classic. Just a rip-off that offers nothing new. I know I've slated it here, but actually it's not that bad. It's only real flaw is how totally unoriginal it is. Pity.
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