2) All The Rich People. Also cathartic, because no one wants to see rich and entitled people make it through a nightmare (except rich and entitled people). Even better if it’s at the hands of their own rich and entitled inner circle. Movies like Creepshow, Ready or Not, Werewolves Within, and You’re Next lean on this trope to our full satisfaction. We support it one hundred percent. It’s a good trope, no notes.
DON’T: Just Make Everyone An Idiot To Justify Their Kills
This was probably one of the biggest mistakes The Hunt made. The movie might possibly have been better if it didn’t make most of its characters more dumb and shallow than a Looney Tunes villain. Every antagonist who dies in this movie is a complete idiot, not only for their ridiculous beliefs and rationales, but also because — and no matter how you want to swallow the film’s attempt at ambiguity — they picked the wrong woman to “hunt.” Sure, the movie tried real hard to say something satirical, but sometimes even satire requires subtlety.
And before you say, “Well come now, Cracked, Tucker and Dale did the very same thing!,” uhm, no. The difference is that Tucker & Dale vs. Evil didn’t take itself half as serious as The Hunt did. It’s a difference that shows, because while we laughed at the hysterical, bigoted kids flying into Tucker and Dale’s woodchipper all by themselves, the kills of these flat, liberal-elites-because-we-say-so characters felt, in a word, empty.
But hey, at least they were all rich. That helped a little.
The Dos And Don'ts Of Mixing Horror And Comedy
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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