Hunger (2009)

“Hunger” is about a guy who kidnaps five people and locks them in an underground cavern and watches them starve to death, waiting for the moment they turn on each other and result to cannibalism. This fascinates him because as a small child, he had to cannibalize his mother after she drove their car off the road and he was trapped in place. He had studied and profiled each of his test subjects before kidnapping them and he occasionally writes notes when happens. He is so obsessed with this experiment that he kills two young adults who come across the covering of the cave. People starve and people die and people do things that they would rather not do.

I’m not sure what to think about this movie. I like the concept but the execution of the film mostly fails. Most of the faults I saw had to deal with appearances. The walls of the cave looked to smooth to be rock and I really want to know what this carved out hole in the middle of nowhere was originally supposed to be. The actors’ clothes never look dirty and the guys barely grow any facial hair; by the way, the group is locked in the cave for over 30 days. The group looks lethargic but never hungry. In comparison, the character Cheryl from the movie “Dread” was completely believable and she was only without food for six days. These people lasted over thirty days and never looked as haggard or hungry as she did. 

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