Hunting Humans

Starring:Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa Michele (II), Jeff Kipers, Trent, Catherine Granville, Joe Ripple, Duke McClure, James Fellows, Rick Shipley, Arthur Smith Jr., Allison Klyn, Paul C. Kangas, Melissa Wroten, David Mun, David M. Gil, Jeff Volpe, Brian Wade (II), Brad Pfeffer
Director: Kevin Kangas
Studio: Mti Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Hunting Humans
Starring: Rick Ganz , Bubby Lewis , and Lisa Michelle Trent
Director: Kevin Kangas
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Got bored.
Serial Killer Hootchie Koo
4 Stars for the first 75 minutes ! 0 Stars for the last 13 minutes
Cool plot but technically flawed
I would rather be swimming in a pool of liquid cow stool!!!!

Hunting Humans
Starring: Rick Ganz , Bubby Lewis , Lisa Michele (II) , Jeff Kipers , and Trent
Director: Kevin Kangas
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
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Release Date: 2003-07-22

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Got bored........2006-10-31

Arick is a serial killer...and this movie is basically a documentary/video journal of how he does it, why he does it, and when he does it. Then, the hunter becomes the hunted, and someone is stalking him. Sounds good, but was not suspenseful, intriguing, or anything. I was disappointed.

Serial Killer Hootchie Koo.......2006-06-12

The first time out, I wasn't that impressed, but after a while I reached the point where I liked this movie. The killer, Aric, contemptuously narrates the entire process, establishing himself as the movie's default protagonist, beginning everything by fleshing out his particular code. He embraces the principals of natural selection and the reinforcing philosophies of Nietzsche.

Cannily, he places heavy emphasis on random kills and on the exploitation of his victims' patterns. To emphasize this point, his christens the whole tale by ambushing a voluptuous young lass from inside her own shower, and then dangling the girl from the faucet like a butchered hog while he himself takes the originally intended shower. In his civilian life, Aric maintains a nearly perfect image of normality, masking his secret inclinations almost completely even while underneath, to himself and to we the audience, he nurses a nearly constant compulsion to kill everyone around him.

Overall, Aric is reasonably organized, though it becomes clear that Aric's overconfidence will eventually, not here but at some future point, become the instrument of his downfall. Maybe within twenty minutes of the movie, Aric runs afoul of a second serial killer. This second killer is later revealed as "Dark".

Dark, lacking Aric's belligerent panache, has killed one of Aric's intended victims, taunting Aric with a note pinned to the corpse with a hunting knife. Aric initially loses his calm, doesn't show up for work that next day. He spots a man dog-walking past his house three different times, finally stalking and shooting him, only to find out later that the guy was in fact just walking his dog. Aric finds himself caught up in a game where he is obliged to outmaneuver and outdo Dark all in the process of avoiding murder himself.

Now, everything was fine up until the point of the big confrontation. The two killers keep one-upping each other with surprise moves. Then they both run out into an adjacent belt of woods. I could have done without about 98% of Dark's lame dialogue and, worse yet, his big karate jamboree. That was pretty horrible, and it made me want to get inside that television myself and slap Dark around like the jailhouse sissy. Luckily, however, Aric does emerge as the winner of the big killer's showdown, and the end does pull up a little after that one temporary nosedive. Either way, Hunting Humans is pretty amusing. The movie was low-budget, yes, and the acting was mostly pretty poor, but overall the story is entertaining and the DVD is inexpensive---and that's all that really matters.

4 Stars for the first 75 minutes ! 0 Stars for the last 13 minutes .......2006-03-27

Kevin Kangas is a fresh new Director with alot of talent & i love his follow up to this film "Fear Of Clowns" & i also was enjoying the hell out of "Hunting Humans" until we hit the last 10-15 minutes of the movie head on & it goes from being a very creative & realistic low-budget film to being a corney lame un-realistic & ilogical karate kick of a ending. The movie is not completely ruined because of the ending but i will say that Kevin Kangas & company were about 13 minutes away from giving birth to a low-budget masterpiece & then it slipped out of there hands & hit the floor & slid on the afterbirth into the oblivion of good movies with very bad endings. What the hell happend Mr. Kangas?

Cool plot but technically flawed.......2005-10-27

"Hunting Humans," a zero budget serial killer flick directed by Kevin Kangas, represents the latest entry in what I like to call my fixation with all things horror. Others would call it a fixation of all things idiotic. Considering many of the films I've watched since I went out and bought a DVD player all those years ago, they would have an excellent point. I now have the opportunity to watch really great classic horror films, movies that knock your socks off with great acting, great special effects, and highly imaginative plots. Unfortunately, it's the other side of the coin that often garners the most attention, thus giving people who hate horror movies plenty of ammunition to blast the genre. "Hunting Humans," in many ways, is a prime example of this latter category. Bad editing, lazy camera work, raspberry inducing dialogue, and bad acting are all on full force display here. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the movie is shot on video too. Why not? Pound another nail in the coffin! But, and this is a big but, the idea fueling the plot is intriguing enough to engage the viewer. Well, at least I thought so. Others will probably take a different tack.

Anyway, "Hunting Humans" tells the story of Aric Blue (Rick Ganz), a beefy chap who just happens to be a serial killer. The movie opens with our boy stalking and murdering a girl in her own shower. He then proceeds to clean up with the poor gal's body hanging off the showerhead. Nice. Aric spends a lot of time talking to us in voiceover, explaining his little hobby and giving us his opinions of the people around him. Blue never has anything nice to say about those he knows, whether they are potential victims or his co-workers at his job at a real estate office. Needless to say, this cynicism and nihilism make killing his fellow humans an easy task. So does his obsession with patterns. Aric Blue is big into patterns. He knows, and explains to us in great detail, that everyone has a pattern. A guy steps outside his house for a smoke break at a certain time of day. A young woman returns home from work at the same time every day. An employee at a grocery store always arrives early in the morning to open up for business. We've all got patterns that others could readily observe and use for some nefarious purpose.

Aric Blue is that somebody. He picks out his prey and then follows them around, jotting down their every move with an eye for choosing just the right moment to swoop in and stick the knife in. Or slip the rope around their neck. Or shoot them. His technique has worked wonders. Aric tells us he's killed dozens of people over the years, and he has little fear of the police. Until one day he arrives to deliver the coup de grace to a victim only to discover someone else already killed the guy. Worse, this killer left a note for Aric on the body, a note that says, "I've got your pattern." Oh man! The rest of the movie has Blue desperately trying to discover the identity of this killer. He keeps getting messages from the guy even as he engages in a competition with him (or her) to see who can make the biggest splash in the headlines. It's a game, but one with deadly consequences. Aric hires a private detective to try and track down the killer only to discover that the other guy also hired a P.I. to smoke him out. Hmmm. Who is this mysterious killer and who will win in the inevitable showdown? It's an odd movie that actually has you rooting for a cold-blooded killer, but "Hunting Humans" somehow manages to get the viewer involved in the proceedings.

I already mentioned the negative aspects of the film. The technical qualities of the movie really do hamper the overall experience. Heck, by the time the film arrives at the inevitable showdown, the acting approaches pure camp. If the picture didn't have such a nifty plot, it would likely prove unwatchable. "Hunting Humans" IS watchable, however, because it occasionally throws out some cool stuff. The competition between Aric and his pursuer chills the blood when Blue decides to go to a movie theater for a killing spree. He moves through a sparsely attended screening methodically and silently murdering a person in the theater, slipping their body to the floor, and then moves on to the next victim. Believe me, you'll think about this film the next time you head over to the multiplex. I also enjoyed the voiceover narration; his voice is so deadpan, so monotone, that you could easily imagine he's really a serial killer. Moreover, listening to this guy is like taking a class in how to commit crimes. He talks about picking locks, disarming security devices, and figuring out how to hack into people's computers. Imagine James Bond as a total sociopath, and you'll have some idea of how Aric Blue sounds as he goes about his grim missions.

Extras on the disc include a commentary with Kangas, outtakes, a photo gallery, trailers, cast and crew biographies, and a behind the scenes featurette that runs about an hour. I'm in a bit of a dilemma deciding how many stars to give the movie. "Hunting Humans" fails on nearly every technical level, but the plot is a worthwhile idea that's occasionally well executed. I think I'll go with three stars because I ultimately did enjoy the film. In a zero budget horror film world populated with dreck like "Shatter Dead" and "Peter Rottentail," it's nice to know a few worthy efforts do exist.

I would rather be swimming in a pool of liquid cow stool!!!!.......2004-06-15

I have found the worst movie ever made. This movie is supposed to be low budget, but it is realy no budget. I love low budget movies, like Evil Dead, and Texas chainsaw massacre just to name a couple but this was horrid. I did not rent a horror movie to see a male underwear model rolling around on his bed, or constantly driving his car around. I couldn't watch anymore, so just to see who the other serial killer was, i fast forwarded to the part with the twist and regurgitated, and i realy enjoyed the lines like "where is underwear model today?" "he is sick" "sick? that is not like him" or something along those lines. Yeah it's not like someone to get sick. I realy don't care anymore

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Got bored.
Serial Killer Hootchie Koo
4 Stars for the first 75 minutes ! 0 Stars for the last 13 minutes
Cool plot but technically flawed
I would rather be swimming in a pool of liquid cow stool!!!!

Hunting Humans
Starring: Rick Ganz , Bubby Lewis , Lisa Michele (II) , Jeff Kipers , and Trent
Director: Kevin Kangas
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