This is no exaggeration: The action thriller Project Wolf Hunting spills more blood than probably any other film of the year. Now it’s in the cinema.
An enormous body count and loads of fake blood. That’s how the South Korean film Project Wolf Hunting advertises itself. It is so brutal that the FSK initially refused to release it. It was not until the second attempt that the mix of sci-fi, horror and action was certified as not suitable for young people. This made the cinema release possible.
From 2 March 2023, the exceptional butchery will run in selected German cinemas. In this article, you can find out what Project Wolf Hunting is about, whether the film is worthwhile and in which cinemas it is running.
In Project Wolf Hunting gangsters, cops and a super zombie clash
Project Wolf Hunting is a kind of Con Air with super zombies. The initial idea is the transport of 47 felons in a cargo ship. The most ruthless criminals overpower their guards and take them out one by one. Neither cops nor gangsters suspect, however, that the ship is carrying a top-secret superweapon. In the belly of the ship lies a zombie soldier named Alpha (Gwi-hwa Choi), who also overpowers his guards. Alpha is a mixture of Frankenstein and the T-1000 from Terminator. As you can imagine, he draws a trail of blood through the ship.
The genre mix two hours of brutality and blood fountains
I was able to see Project Wolf Hunting last year at the festival in Sitges and my recommendation in a nutshell would be:
Furthermore, Project Wolf Hunting’s script is enriched with a conspiracy that goes back decades. That’s why it seems somewhat bloated in the last third.
View the trailer here:
You either go along for the ride in this slaughterhouse of the seas or you jump off due to the tedious butchery of uninteresting characters. Personally, I didn’t leave the cinema bored, but had expected more
