Three friends out for a day of hunting discover they're the ones whose lives are in danger in this independent thriller. When a guy announces to his friends that he's getting married, two of his buddies decide to take him out for a final weekend of male bonding, centered upon hunting and camping. The three New Yorkers head to Delaware and find a secluded spot in the woods where they drink beer and occasionally shoot at random animals. However, as they happen upon a beautiful ridge, shots ring
out and they discover they're not the only people in the forest. Before long, the guns go off again and the hunters realize that they've become a target, and they have to find a way out of the suddenly forbidding woods before it's too late. Starring Reggie Cunningham, Ray Sullivan, and Sean Reid, Trigger Man received its world premiere at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
The flick's got just just as much first-half "filler" as it does second-half intensity, so if you're a patient genre fan, I've no problem recommending the movie.
Extremely effective and paced in a way that is both aggravating and genius. The first 30 minutes are amazing because they put you a completely relaxed and safe environment. After that it's just disturbing. A lot of it has to do with the creepy score that managed to get to me after a while. The other reason has to do
with the amount of suspense, it's really like nothing else. What's so odd about this movie is that at times it looks like someone's home movies of a hunting trip, that's what makes it truly an effective horror movie.
Definitely original. It's slow moving at first, but that's not a bad thing, it works extremely well to build tension and contrast the following shock and suspense that follows. It also serves to let you experience the film unfold with the characters. One problem I found was the deliberate shaky hand-help video camera,
it was used for a reason, an effective one at that, but the wobbling and fast jolt movement becomes a bit nauseating. Although you could just chalk up the dizziness to an effort to disorient the viewer... who knows. The sound as well is very well done.Bottom line, if you can sit down for 80minutes to watch this and not get too fidgety you'll experience at tense and different sort of thriller.
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