You Should Watch This Trailer for What Is Principally ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’ Made Horror

It’s a enjoyable factor to do whereas visiting New Orleans: hop on a small boat for a swamp tour that features up-close (however not too shut) encounters with alligators, snakes, and different native critters. That’s what the characters in Hungry anticipate, at the least, not realizing their tour will even embrace being chased after and chomped upon by a ferocious rogue hippopotamus.

The primary trailer for when-animals-attack thriller Hungry is right here, and the funniest a part of the title—apart from the way in which it evokes the basic kiddie recreation Hungry Hungry Hippos—is that the dialogue makes it clear this toothy beast isn’t attempting to eat any of the vacationers and guides. As a substitute, it’s out right here residing its greatest life, having a blast terrorizing people that’ve strayed into its nook of the bayou.

Sure, it’s plenty of shrieking, splashing, and CG within the darkness, but it surely additionally seems to be prefer it could possibly be a enjoyable watch, particularly for those who’re a fan of flicks like Lake Placid, Rogue, Crawl, and Anaconda (unique model). Right here’s the official synopsis:

“Hungry follows thrill-seeking vacationers on a riverboat tour by the treacherous Louisiana swamplands. Lured off the crushed path by the promise of an unique journey, they quickly discover themselves combating for survival towards a ravenous hippopotamus lurking beneath the bayou’s murky waters. Set in a mysterious and harmful panorama, Hungry is a tense survival thriller about an unimaginable battle with considered one of nature’s deadliest predators.”

Please benefit from the poster too, which doubles down on the entire recreation reference. And, frankly, regardless of claims on the contrary, it does appear like meat’s again on the menu…

Hungry is written and directed by James Nunn; it stars Madison Davenport, Joaquim de Almeida, Olivia Bernstone, Tracey Bonner, Michel Curiel, Jim Meskimen, Samantha Coughlan, and River Codack. It hits VOD June 23.

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