In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
Practical Effects
Actual knife fighting, no CGI—del Toro trained with Filipino martial arts masters.
Direction
Friedkin's obsessive close-ups make every slash feel intimate and wrong.
Sound
The wet crunch of combat—this movie *sounds* like dying.
Director
William Friedkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Del Toro insisted on doing all knife work himself after months of Kali training; the production had to insure his hands for $1 million.
Friedkin cut 40 minutes of plot to focus purely on the hunt—studio hated it, but it's why the film feels like a 94-minute panic attack.
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