The Head Hunter is a brilliant visual history of a solo legionnaire seeking vengeance. The 2018 film is directed by Jordan Downey and is a cinematic spectacle created on a bitsy budget of$. This is in the league of Shane Carruth, who gave us flicks like Manual ($ 7000) and Upstream Color ($). Actor Christopher Rygh does a great job of expressing pain, both physically and mentally, as he decapitates monsters in the hunt for the bone that killed his son. The cinematography makes you feel like you're in the middle of a Skyrim cut-scene. Since there's only one character, the movie is bound to be a little slow, so you’ll have to endure that. Thanks for the recommendation, Jess. Then are the plot and ending of the 2018 film The Head Hunter explained, spoilers ahead.
The Head Hunter Plot Explanation
It’s fantastic how the movie lets your mind imagine the brutality of each monster battle. Lack of finances didn’t allow for elaborate CGI, so the filmmaker decided to show us only the fate of each fight. The makeup and the acting do the rest to portray the extent of the brutality.
Why is the Warrior killing monsters?
The Warrior lives alone stalking monsters. He decapitates them and keeps the head pecked on his wall as glories. And now you know why the movie gets its name. While he has collected multitudinous heads, he still waits to run into the monster that formerly killed his son. His life is run by his hunt for revenge.
The Head Hunter What's that Grey Fluid in the Jars?
Through the help of the ancient Good Book, the Warrior has learned to produce a substance that has extraordinary mending capacities. He uses this to treat the numerous bloody rips that he receives from the monsters he battles. Unknown to him, the fluid also has the power to bring the dead reverse to life.
Revenge is Mine!
Eventually, the monster that killed his son returns, and in an unseen grand battle, the Warrior defeats and beheads the beast. He’s too worn down by the fighting and puts away the skewering of the head for latterly. The Warrior heals from his injuries and proceeds to his son’s grave to tell her that she has been redressed, that she can now rest easy.
Body … Body …
Because of a carelessly placed jar of slate mending substance by an open window, the fluid falls on the head of the comb, bringing it back to life. It, well, heads out looking for a possible body to connect to. The wrong, ironic turn of events leads to the monster attaching itself to the remains of the Warrior’s son. Now, not only does he have to go kill it again, but he also has to endure the pain of separating his son’s headless shell from the renewed monster. To add to the agony, the monster conjures up words in the voice of his dead son. He constantly stabs the head and kills it, or so he thinks.
The Grey Substance Gives Eternity
There's a scene where the Warrior dabs some fluid on a dead spider, which springs back to life. He instantly squishes it and walks down. But we're shown the spider getting up again. The mystical substance has the power of eternal life. This also means that the monster’s head is also not dead. But our legionnaire friend doesn’t know this. He believes it’s a one-time back-to-life thing.
The Head Hunter Ending Explained
What happens to the Warrior at the end of the film?
Well, in an illegal turn of events, the monster head that's still alive (as seen in the gif over) sneaks up on the Warrior and kills him. It beheads him and inserts its chine into his body. We aren't shown how exactly ahead alone could take down this immense Warrior who slays monsters for a living. But consider this
He’s tired and distracted.
He has had tore-bury the headless cadaverous remains of his son.
He’s not wearing his armor.
The head still has a long chine attached to it.
I suppose it had a jump on our Warrior idol and strangled him. After that, it was a matter of taking control of his unconscious body and using his blade to guillotine his own head. We see the monster spear the head of the Warrior on his own wall of glories as it walks down, claiming his body.
Did the Warrior die at the end of The Head Hunter?
Remember, the slate substance gives eternal life, and the Warrior has used it further than anyone differently. Easily, he's immortal, but what good is eternity if your head is skewered on a wall-mounted stake? The last scene showing his dead eyes was enough dark way to the end of the film. I’m happy there were no corny rudiments of his eyes blinking or moving.
What’s the significance of the Arrow Head?
It’s an arrowhead from the last Radian City. They said that these arrows can carry souls to the afterlife. I don’t believe in it, but then you go.
While he originally doesn’t believe in this, allowing that it's each over, he shoots the arrowhead into the distance. This directly hits the guillotined head of another taken monster. Now, it would just be extremely twisted if his son resurrects as a monster. But we aren’t shown what the effect of the arrowhead on the corpse is. But we do know that this head doesn’t kill the Warrior.