Missing 411: The Hunted

I'm watching this for the second time and if you like mysteries, the creeps and the outdoors, you'll like this. This documentary focuses on stories of hunters who have vanished without trace while out on legal hunts and some will be thinking "well, if they weren't out there shooting animals, they wouldn't have gone missing". Well, there's certainly validity to that argument but leaving that aside, the manners in which these people just vanished are very strange indeed.

For once, here's an American documentary series (there are other Missing 411 docs on Prime) that doesn't rely on relentless recaps, overly dramatic talking heads and intrusive music. What it has are the facts, presented via personal testimonies from those who were there, all set against stunning landscapes that are at once beautiful and frightening in their size and wildness.

For me though, the highlight is the section where footage is played of the eerie, creepy-as-hell sounds recorded by two hunters one night, out in the wilds. Really gets the hair on the back of the neck standing up because, I think, it taps into our primal fears of the unknown, what's out there and what dangers it presents.

Highly recommended.