The ensuing back-and-forth insists the viewer ponders the true subject of the title with the subtlety of a harried English Lit teacher.
When they’re run off the road in an accident, Eve escapes and gives chase. We’re introduced to Eve (Lucie Debay), a woman travelling on business, and a man (Arieh Worthalter) who charms her at a bar, but plans on driving her and his friend out to the forest, where the men will abuse and kill her. Hunted, like Revenge an original production for high-quality horror network Shudder, follows the same playbook, albeit very clumsily.
It has also recently enjoyed a resurgence – and a much needed refresh – thanks to the perspective of female directors such as Coralie Fargeat, whose Revenge (2017) was a sun-baked, ayahuasca-fuelled game of cat and mouse that quickly flipped the script on the victim’s pursuers. It’s probably to horror’s general discredit that ‘rape revenge’ is considered a legit subgenre, but it is, and it’s one that’s mature enough to have ‘classics’, among them Straw Dogs (1971), Last House On The Left (1972) and I Spit On Your Grave (1978).
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