Hungry (2026)
Hungry is a 2026 thriller movie directed by James Nunn, with a running time of 1h 33m. It stars Madison Davenport, Tracey Bonner and Joaquim de Almeida.
A bayou boat tour, a group of holidaymakers, and a hippopotamus that decides they are prey. Hungry keeps its premise that plain and stakes the film on the swamp being a bad place to be chased.
James Nunn writes and directs. Louisiana supplies the constraints a survival picture needs: channels that narrow, water too dark to see into, and no route to dry land that avoids the animal in it. A hippo is an odd pick for natural horror and a sound one, since it covers ground faster than the people it is hunting and owns the water they are floating on.
Madison Davenport, Tracey Bonner, Joaquim de Almeida, Michel Curiel, Samantha Coughlan, Olivia Bernstone, Jim Meskimen and River Codack play the tour party. A British production filed under natural horror and survival, which is a fair description of what it offers: small cast, one location, one animal, and a clock running the whole time. Anyone who watches creature features for the mechanics of getting from the boat to the bank is the audience for this one.
Where to watch Hungry
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Madison Davenport as Sistine
- Tracey Bonner as Dionne
- Joaquim de Almeida as Walker
- Michel Curiel as Rodrigo
- Samantha Coughlan as Sally
- Olivia Bernstone as Hannah
- Jim Meskimen as Tim
- River Codack as Mikey
- Joe Azzopardi as Captain James
- Matthew Charlery-Smith as Jazz Singer
- Maxime Durand as Gator Joe's tour guide (uncredited)
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A few thoughts on Hungry
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is the closest thing in print. Stephen King strands a child off a hiking trail and keeps the fear at the level of cold, hunger and something moving in the trees, the register a good animal-attack film works in. Primal pushes further into pure physical survival, telling a story of a hunter and a predator with almost no dialogue and no promise of an easy way out. For the landscape itself, Swamp People follows Louisiana alligator hunters through the same channels, and an hour of it does more for your sense of what the boat tour wandered into than any amount of horror scoring.
Animal horror where the water belongs to the predator
Hungry hands the hippo the one advantage that matters: it swims faster than the tour boat, and it stays under while the holidaymakers read flat water. These films run the same arithmetic. The shark, the snake and the shape below the hull all move through their own element while the people above guess at depth and distance.
Bayou survival stories set deep in Louisiana
James Nunn shoots Hungry in Louisiana for the constraints: channels that narrow, water too dark to read, and dry land sitting behind the animal. The swamp does that work here too, across a National Guard patrol lost in the bayou, gator-country creature pictures, a Hardy Boys case in the marsh, and a novel about a family running an alligator park.
Survival horror about a group with nowhere to run
A boat tour holds a fixed number of people and one exit, and Hungry stakes the film on that exit closing. Each of these picks a different trap and lets it tighten: a cave system with no map, a farm under enforced silence, an Antarctic station, a stretch of woods with a lost girl and a radio, an island nobody leaves.
Films and shows where ordinary animals hunt people
The hippo in Hungry stays an animal with an appetite and a home range, and that ordinariness is the scarier build. These films and series hold the same register: a chimp loose in a house, a bear working its patch of forest, a zoo whose residents stop cooperating with their keepers, a plateau where the wildlife kept its old rules.