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The Hunt

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Brooke , a fading social-media influence, travels to a remote Texas property with her friend Sammy and her manager Louis to stage a fake overnight "serial killer" live stream designed to revive her relevance. Fear is scripted, danger is manufactured, and the audience is expected to believe whatever the camera tells them. At the property, Brooke recruits Marx, a quiet and deeply isolated caretaker, to play the role of their killer. What Brooke treats as performance, Marx accepts as purpose. Boundaries are never clearly drawn, consent is assumed, and the distinction between acting and permission quietly collapses. When Louis disappears, the group initially believes the chaos is part of the plan. But as violence escalates with disturbing precision, it becomes clear that Marx is no longer pretending. The horror isn't impulsive or frenzied -- it is methodical, ritualistic, and final. Cut off from help and stripped of the audience that once protected them, Brooke and Sammy are forced into a brutal confrontation with the consequences of exploitation and manipulation. THE HUNT is an unflinching examination of performance culture and the danger of turning suffering into content -- a bleak, grounded horror film where the true monster is not the man invited to kill, but the permission that created him.
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Michael Crum

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Dylan Alford

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Jonathan Anderson II

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Donny Boaz

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Cole Crum

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Chance Gibbs

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Synopsis Brooke , a fading social-media influence, travels to a remote Texas property with her friend Sammy and her manager Louis to stage a fake overnight "serial killer" live stream designed to revive her relevance. Fear is scripted, danger is manufactured, and the audience is expected to believe whatever the camera tells them. At the property, Brooke recruits Marx, a quiet and deeply isolated caretaker, to play the role of their killer. What Brooke treats as performance, Marx accepts as purpose. Boundaries are never clearly drawn, consent is assumed, and the distinction between acting and permission quietly collapses. When Louis disappears, the group initially believes the chaos is part of the plan. But as violence escalates with disturbing precision, it becomes clear that Marx is no longer pretending. The horror isn't impulsive or frenzied -- it is methodical, ritualistic, and final. Cut off from help and stripped of the audience that once protected them, Brooke and Sammy are forced into a brutal confrontation with the consequences of exploitation and manipulation. THE HUNT is an unflinching examination of performance culture and the danger of turning suffering into content -- a bleak, grounded horror film where the true monster is not the man invited to kill, but the permission that created him.
Director
Michael Crum
Producer
Donny Boaz, Gerald Crum
Screenwriter
Gerald Crum
Distributor
Indie Rights
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 8, 2026
Runtime
1h 40m