Streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX beginning today, Project Wolf Hunting is a hyper-violent South Korean genre bender that packs action, sci-fi, horror, and thriller aspects into a two-hour splatterfest of epic proportions.
It’s a wholly original production, but here are six movies that writer-director Kim Hong-Sun (The Chase) evokes with Project Wolf Hunting.
1. Con Air
Although the plots ultimately diverge in drastic ways, Project Wolf Hunting‘s basic premise echoes that of Con Air. The 1997 action thriller takes place on a maximum security transport plane that’s been hijacked by criminals in an effort to escape. Project Wolf Hunting transplants the action to a cargo ship, wherein convicts coordinate an escape attempt while being transported.
2. The Raid
Project Wolf Hunting‘s merciless violence brings to mind The Raid. While few movies live up to the 2011 Indonesian film’s revolutionary action set pieces, Project Wolf Hunting‘s bone-crunching brutality is supplemented by literal tons of gore. If you’re a fan of The Raid and similarly unrelenting action in the likes of Dredd, John Wick, and The Night Comes for Us, Project Wolf Hunting is sure to get your adrenaline pumping.
3. Resident Evil
With the inclusion of Alpha (Gwi-hwa Choi), Project Wolf Hunting is a better Resident Evil adaptation than any of Paul W. S. Anderson’s efforts. The unstoppable killing machine is reminiscent of one of the video game’s Tyrants, in particular Nemesis — first appearing as the main villain in 1999’s Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and later making its film debut in 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse — in both bio-weapon backstory and disfigured appearance.
4. Predator
Not only do Project Wolf Hunting and Predator share a unique metamorphosis of genres — starting as full-throttle action flicks before being disrupted by genre elements — but Alpha and Predator‘s Yautja creature both utilize infrared vision to hunt their prey. Speaking of Arnold Schwarzenegger classics, Alpha has a bit of Terminator in him as well.
5. Universal Soldier
Con Air isn’t the only ’90s action extravaganza that Project Wolf Hunting harks back to. Like Project Wolf Hunting, Universal Soldier involves a seemingly unstoppable, genetically-engineered super soldier. (See also: Captain America: The Winter Soldier.) While Jean-Claude Van Damme can still pass for a human in the 1992 sci-fi action movie, Project Wolf Hunting‘s antagonist is a hulking monster marred by Frankenstein-esque scars.
6. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Even defenders of Jason Takes Manhattan can agree that its title is misleading; two thirds of the film take place on a cruise ship while Vancouver stands in for New York City in the final act, save for one memorable on-location sequence. But even if the goal was to make a maritime slasher, Friday the 13th Part VIII barely cuts it. Project Wolf Hunting can be viewed as a bigger, bolder, bloodier version of the 1989 sequel.
Stream Project Wolf Hunting on SCREAMBOX now!
The post ‘Project Wolf Hunting’ – ‘Jason Takes Manhattan’ and 5 Other Movies the New Action-Slasher Evokes appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.