Slow, painfully so at times, but there are moments of clarity in the writing to make it passably special and inventive, breaking up the routine of a humans-as-prey thriller.
Young filmmakers Louie Gibson and Joe Dietsch pull off a minor miracle in the Age of Trump. They restrain their political messages for the story's benefit.
Even at its pulpiest, "Happy Hunting" has a point to make - about how in modern society we often use the pretense of morality to justify base savagery.