IR-rated 90s Sci-Fi Thriller Is Trash Can Predator Versus The Scooby-Doo Gang
Written by Robert Scucci | Published
To write for this site, I put together a bunch RoboCop and Mad Max is funny because it's so much fun to watch, no matter how good or bad it is. I'll have to start adding Predator style films to the bowl after watching the 1996's. Star Hunterplaying with us Survival in the Game or Judgment Nightbut with an antagonist doing his best Predator impersonation while wearing trash armor, while it's up to the Scooby-Doo gang to take him down for good.
Star Hunter it has a lot of work but no choreography behind it. It's an hour of full-time students, but I love it because everyone leans into camp without taking it too seriously. It hits everything The Most Dangerous Game tropes you know well, but it's also about a group of teenagers fighting a seemingly unstoppable celestial killer who likes to kill for fun.
Let's Keep This Simple
Star Hunter is about a group of high school football players whose bus breaks down after the big game. They are stranded in a bad part of town and need to call for roadside assistance, which leads them to a blind man named Reicher. He lives alone in a luxurious apartment and is more than accommodating to his unexpected guests, who quickly become suspicious because there is no furniture, but the back wall is covered from floor to ceiling with weapons.
As it turns out, Reicher works closely with a space robot prisoner called Star Hunter, and together they make a game of hunting people for sport as they travel from planet to planet. The children learn this the hard way when they find a trophy room in Reicher's apartment full of severed human heads. Reicher gives everyone a one-hour head start before the hunt begins, and it doesn't look good for the youngsters.
What the youth do not know yet Star Hunter that space officers known as trackers are also trying to stop Star Hunter and Reicher. When the token pothead starts acting even stranger than usual, it's widely implied that he's been infected by a tracker, and it's up to him to ensure everyone's safety before they're all wiped out by a killing machine hunting them down.
Total B-Production to Win
Star Hunter leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to action choreography and special effects. Star Hunter is supposed to be Predator, but apparently it's a guy in a suit.
Listen, I know how movies are made, and that Predator is also a guy in a suit, but this indeed he looks like a guy in a suit. He walks around like a young man in a suit. He shoots guns like a guy in a suit. And he is 1000 percent, without a doubt, a guy in a suit. It's good to know this as a moviegoer because most of the monsters are guys in suits, but in my mind, and in this fantasy, it's just a guy in a suit, which it really is. Star Hunter or any gifts.
What really saves this movie, and what motivated me to review it, is how much fun it is despite the fact that the antagonist is a guy in a Predator suit (really badass). It's straight up Scooby-Doo, and I mean that as a compliment. There's no dog in this movie, but every single person looks like they're about to say “jinkies” whenever something bad happens, but after they all peek out the door side by side, with the shortest person on the bottom and the tallest person on top.
Although there is no clear example of everyone running in their place before exiting the frame and leaving nothing but a cloud of dust behind, Star Hunter it has certain Mystery Gang strengths that make it more fun than it has any right to be.
If you like interesting things Survival in the Gamebut you also find yourself craving sci-fi schlock with a low budget, Star Huntercurrently streaming on Tubi for free, it should be your next watch. Don't take this one too seriously, and you'll have a blast (stay, stay!) with it.
