Film Review – Hunt Club

Richard Connell’s 1924 short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” has inspired many adaptations over multiple forms of media, with storytellers routinely drawn to the central idea of hunters going after human prey for sheer thrills. The premise has been done to death, recently too (including a 2022 adaptation starring Casper Van Dien in the villain role), giving writers David Lipper and John Saunders a challenge to bring something different to the screen. This slight deviation from the usual barbarity comes in the form of a semi-feminist take, with “Hunt Club” turning to the ills of modern society to cook up a battle between the sexes. Perhaps there’s potential in such a war, but “Hunt Club” doesn’t take the assignment seriously, electing to skip on sustained action and suspense to meander with humdrum characters and unadventurous direction from Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, who seems reluctant to turn the endeavor into the mean machine it could easily become. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com