The Hunt, which was initially scheduled to hit theaters last September, but Universal Pictures and Blumhouse paused the marketing campaign in August in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. It was canceled outright soon after, in part because President Donald Trump called out the film in a series of tweets, saying it was made to “inflame and cause chaos.”
However, things have changed as The Hunt has received a new trailer and will finally be released in theaters March 13th.
The film centers
around 12 strangers from working-class and/or Southern communities who are referred to as “deplorables,” kidnapped and forced to partake in a gruesome battle royal organized by a group of “liberal elites.” But as the new trailer shows, the group in the film hatches a plant to fight back, launching a battle that blends over-the-top violence with political satire.
