The Night Of The Hunter

The Night Of The Hunter

Unedited Thoughts — This is part of my unedited thoughts series.

I really can’t understand why this is one of the ‘must watch films’ and on lots of top movie lists.
The characters are pretty much all two dimensional. You can pick what they are after and going to do a mile off. Which is why when the main baddie tricks people it is just so frustrating because no-one would ever be fooled.
It is a desperate time. None of the characters are particularly inspiring or heroic. The story is the struggle of the kids of a hung bank-robber trying to keep the secret hiding place of his final heist secret from the ‘preacher’ who has inculcated himself into their lives.
There are some really weird visuals as well. There are some weird floating heads at the start who introduce the story. When our two heroes flee the town by boat there is a weird animal — then cut to — river montage.
There just isn’t anything very enticing about this film. No great performances. The story is bland and predictable — much of it completely pointless. Skip. There are too many great films out there to waste your time with this one.