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The Hunt by Jonny Numb
Path of Least Resistance The Hunt is the umpteenth retelling of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” ostensibly updated for the Trump era. This repurposing of Connell’s timeless tale would make for interesting, compelling storytelling…if it weren’t so base-level. To get it out of the way, and acknowledging that “controversy” is in the eye of the…
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The Grudge (2020) by Jonny Numb
The Grudge: A Deceptive Ordinariness The new Grudge is probably the harshest telling of the tale (originating with Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-onin 2002), and its moments of violence spring from an intimacy manifested in the despair- or hope-stricken hearts of its characters. It’s a film shot in earth tones, underlining a small-town blandness that augments the feelings…
