Hunting Grounds
2008, Canada
dir. Eric Bilodeau
cast: Patrice Le
Blanc, Patrick Baby, Marie-Eve Lemire
After an
ecological collapse, people are confined to sealed cities to allow
nature to heal. Fed up of virtual reality hunts, a group of hunters
arrange an illegal expedition out of the city to hunt for real in the
wilderness. Unfortunately for them, a military experiment into a
regeneration serum has caused a zombie outbreak in the woods, but
they may find a worse danger among their ranks.
While it had an
interesting set up, it's actually pretty disappointing that once the
characters leave the automated VR heavy city, they just run into
zombies. It could have been much more interesting if they had been
faced with natures revenge. Hell, even these days some backwoods
cannibals would feel less hackneyed than zombies. The tone is a bit
odd, too- initially it feels quite serious but when the zombies
appear, there's a lot of blatant stabs at comedy, such as the zombie
in the exo-skeleton who is unkillable as he's wearing a high-tech
helmet so can't be shot in the head. It's nicely filmed and makes the
best of the low budget, even if it 's a bit CGI heavy (though the
green screen actually work well for the virtual reality scenes). Not
bad but could have been better with a bit more imagination in the
storyline.
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