Huntress (2024)

 

 

I recently rejoined one of those mystery box subscriptions where you get four (I think it’s four) blue ray horror films each month.  One of the films I received recently was Huntress.  Huntress concerns a group of medical team soldiers at the end of WW2 who stop off at a German farmhouse.  Once there, a weird family of killers begin picking the soldiers off one by one.  What we have here essentially is a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre only in this film there is no chainsaw.  No Leatherface either.  And we’re not in Texas.  The creepy family is all female whereas the family in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre only had maybe one female member that I recall. 

 

There's not much out there picture wise, in fact other than the movie poster below I'm not 100% sure the other two are really from Huntress.  This goes for the Blogger post, not for those viewing on Letterboxd.  No pictures are posted there at all. There was also one very glaring error made and that error was at one point there are a few of the soldiers sitting in an army jeep as the camera pans around, there on a panel behind the back seat is a cell phone!  I don’t know if someone was studying lines they had saved on their cell phone, was answering a text, making a call to their little rugrat back at home or what, but I saw what I saw.  I mean I think I did. 

 

By the end of the film, they are not even trying to cover up the fact that this is inspired by or is a rip off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  There’s one member of the family that wears what looks like cheese cloth maybe it’s supposed to be gauze but she is chasing one of the soldiers with an axe when he is able to escape in the back of that same army jeep I mentioned earlier she starts dancing and twirling around on the side of the road flailing away with her axe.  Just like Leatherface does at the end of the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.  The special effects are average and none of the actors have I heard of or seen before, which isn’t too surprising considering for most of them this is their only film.  The director J. Christian Ingvordsen, is the only member of the film who has any resume to speak of with films that he has directed going back to the mid 80’s.  I’ve never heard of any of them, but they exist all the same.  I will give this two Frauleins out of five.