Manhunt (2008) – Patrik Syversen.
During an idyllic hiking trip deep into the mountains, four friends fall prey to a cannibalistic clique of merciless manhunters in Patrik Syversen's spectacularly gruesome backwoods chunkblower Manhunt! The plentiful, gleefully executed carnage is satisfyingly brutal, palpable threat is excitingly maintained throughout, and the grossly beleaguered, exquisitely lovely Henriette Bruusgaard provides one of the pluckiest plasma-soaked protagonists I can readily recall.
Exhilaratingly savage, unflinchingly violent, 'Manhunt' remains a modern Grindhouse classic that vividly evokes the visceral, blood-curdling carnality of 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'Just Before Dawn'. A memorably grisly film, almost entirely unleavened by humour, like a shotgun blast to the face, Manhunt is blunt-force drama of the highest caliber. It isn't common for a contemporary shocker to so excitingly capture the bravura barfbag terrorism of 1970s exploitation, but I earnestly feel that this Norwegian gut-spiller comes closer than most.