Five men from the city decide to take a little trip to the woods and have some fun and hunting. Things get complicated later on when they encounter a pack of maniacal deer hunters who turn them in to prey.
Hunter's Blood was released in the United Kingdom on September 26, 1986, by Palace Pictures.[2] The film had its American premiere at the 167th Street Theater in North Miami, Florida on January 23, 1987.[3] Shortly after, Concorde Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. It was released in New York City and Los Angeles on May 29, 1987.[1]
Reception
Critical response
Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a low-budget Deliverance-derived rural thriller, basted with Southern Comfort." Wilmington stated, "The photography may be a bit muddy, but Robert C. Hughes' direction is coherent and well paced. The script is tight and the dialogue isn't idiotic — except where it's supposed to be. Some of the actors are fine. The movie holds your interest without rewarding it, though it's sometimes an interesting critique of machismo, laced with dark humor."[4]
Scott Drebit of Daily Dead described the film as "a backwoods hicksploitation actioner that more than gets by with a cast handpicked by the B movie gods and a script wittier than it has to be." Drebit also wrote, "Hunter's Blood very much deserves to sit on a shelf next to Rituals and Just Before Dawn as a stellar backwoods horror; the ending alone has a delicious punchline (pun intended) that every horror fan will love."[2]
