Unrated Web Series _top_: Hunters

Some critics argue that the unrated cut is "pandering to gore hounds." But a deep watch of the reveals something else: a thesis about trauma.

Standard action movies use violence as a punchline. Hunters uses violence as a language. In the unrated cut, every bullet wound is a conversation about pain. When Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) kills his first Nazi, the standard cut gives you a quick shot of blood. The unrated cut holds on his face for ten seconds of silence, then pans down to the gurgling wound. You feel the weight of the act. Hunters Unrated Web Series