The Hunt: In Search of Australia's Big Cats

2020

Action / Documentary

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IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 31 31

Director

Stu Ross Photo
Stu Ross

Top cast

Alex MacTavish Photo
Alex MacTavish as Young Simon
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610.54 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 2
1.1 GB
1920*820
English 2.0
NR
25 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hystericalaffluenza 2 / 10

An hour I'll never get back

*a car starts in the distance*this idiot: "That's definitely the Otways panther, I've seen real panthers and that's how they all sound."I was hoping for any sort of expert beyond, "my parents funded my volunteering at Australia Zoo and now they're funding this series of video essays."The makers of this film fail to comprehend the existence of feral cats on the Australian continent for the last 250 years. With no natural predators, they're growing into the mainland apex predator niche and, rather than looking at this very serious threat to native and domestic animals, these dummies instead run off to chase bunyips and other cryptids.The other problem they face is that modern cameras and scientific advances have started removing the doubt that allowed for such whackjob theories to flourish when cameras were grainy and DNA testing was inconclusive.Growing up in bushland regions of Australia means being surrounded by claims of the local panther/big cat/cryptozoological menace, and everyone knows someone who has a story about seeing it or being confronted by it, and yet no one has found a trace.I, myself, stumbled across a litter of larger than expected cats in the Kosciuszko back country around twilight one May, years ago. But they were very clearly large black feral kittens. Not panthers or cougars or whatever it is that these country lads want to convince themselves exists out in the deep bush.There is nothing to be gained from this documentary. No new footage. No evidence. Nothing that makes it seem like anything more than a ridiculous way to con some money out of Screen Australia and Film Victoria.This movie makes me want to demand an audit of public funding for local films.
Reviewed by cvsanders 2 / 10

Screen Australia will fund anything?

Reviewed by Newnaira 2 / 10

Profoundly disappointing

If you were excited to see compelling evidence of big cat existence in Australia, you'll be sorely disappointed. The production quality is great... however to say the content is lacking would be an understatement. This film contains no evidence, compelling or otherwise, of big cats in Australia. However, there is volumes of evidence of their own biases and embarrassing lack of understanding. When the DNA results come back from the carcass of a calf, they simply don't believe the results, musing over how a fox could bring down a new born calf... as if calves don't regularly die and end up scavenged. When they originally attended the scene, they confirmed much of the predation on the beast was carrion birds, but after the results in the dna taken from only the neck, they are befuddled as to how a fox could have eaten the entire calf? Despite originally knowing the carcass had been eaten by multiple animals. The absurdity of this documentary and its supposed experts had me speechless and frustrated by the end. I don't recommend wasting your time watching this film... it was a waste of time, money, and resources.
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