In Hunting Ground (also known as Coto de Caza), Adele is a lawyer who believes all criminals should have a second chance and they are the victims themselves due to the social environment they have been brought up in, drugs, unemployment etc...
However, Adele is soon the victim herself with a gang who first steals her car and then later in a botched burglary at her holiday home murder her husband. This is not the end to Adele's torment as one of the burglars who does get arrested ends up dying in prison and his brother who is the leader of the gang vows to get further revenge on Adele which leads up to a more brutal and more bloody home invasion....
Hunting Ground is the second film I have seen by director Jorge Grau, the other being The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. I thought from that film, this may be quite rough from what I had read about this film and its premise, though for most of the film it is a bit of a slow burn of a crime/thriller film until the final twenty minutes when it goes from 1 to 10 in how violent it gets and bit of an uneasy watch.
I doubt it will be a film I'll be in a hurry to watch again if I do probably will watch it in its original Spanish language! Mondo Macabro have done a great job with their Blu Ray release of this film.
Even though I wasn't a big fan of this film, I do find it interesting with what other films directors have done in their back catalogue also how maybe their style changes throughout the years.
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