Somehow, despite the lack of money at his disposal, Downey has brought to the screen a fully-realized vision of a lived-in world quite unlike our own one that looks and feels like a polished Hollywood production made on a budget of millions. Filmed primarily in Portugal and Norway with a small crew, it’s as low budget as any film you’ll likely see in wide release here in 2019, but I can assure you that if you weren’t aware of the budgetary constraints, you wouldn’t notice. One thing that has to be noted right off the bat is that The Head Hunter was made on a budget of just $30,000, and that’s not a typo. His next target? The monster that killed his own daughter years prior. The premise, well, it won me over almost instantly.Ĭhristopher Rygh stars in The Head Hunter as “Father,” a medieval warrior who spends his time slaying monsters and, as the title suggests, collecting their heads and gruesomely nailing them to his wall. While I had been hoping that Downey would be hired to direct an official installment in the Critters franchise, he has instead returned here in 2019 with a completely original, feature length horror movie titled The Head Hunter, released on VOD earlier this month and next headed to DVD on May 7th.
For my money, it was one of the very best franchise fan films ever made, and I couldn’t wait to see what Downey would be doing next. What’s your favorite horror movie released in 2019 so far? Mine’s The Head Hunter.īack in 2014, Thankskilling director Jordan Downey made a short Critters fan film titled Critters: Bounty Hunter, which won over fans of the franchise with high production values not often found in the fan film arena.