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‘It Hunts’ Review: A Neon-Soaked Psychological Thriller on Prime Video

The indie horror movie It Hunts is available now on Amazon Prime. Photo: Gabriel Black, used with permission.

New Release: Indie Horror-Thriller It Hunts Arrives on Prime Video

Rain of Fire Productions, in partnership with distributor Indie Rights, has announced the streaming release of It Hunts, a gripping new supernatural horror-thriller written and directed by Gabriel Black. The 98-minute feature is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. (Rain of Fire Productions, 2026)

Synopsis & Official Details

The film follows Casey, a lazy nightcrawler with a diet almost as bad as his dead-end job. With his life and relationship going nowhere, his mundane existence is shattered when he begins to experience hallucinations, recurring nightmares, and escalating paranoia. Casey finds himself desperately trying to unravel the mystery of a supernatural entity that is relentlessly hunting him.

  • Genre: Supernatural Thriller / Psychological Horror / Drama
  • Rating: 18+ (Violence, Substance Use, Foul Language)
  • Directors & Producers: Written and directed by Gabriel Black; produced by Gabriel Black and Stephanie Black
  • Cast: Izzy Martinez, Katlin Svadbik, J.J. Crowne, Gabriel Lopez, Red Devigne, and Joyci Lucia
  • Production Company: Rain of Fire Productions

“We wanted to create a story that merges the gritty reality of nightcrawling with an inescapable, atmospheric horror. Casey is a deeply flawed protagonist whose lack of direction is suddenly replaced by the most primal instinct of all: survival.” — Gabriel Black, Director

Film Review: A Neon-Soaked Portrait of Modern Dread

Gabriel Black’s indie psychological horror It Hunts paints a suffocating, neon-soaked portrait of modern dread.

The story follows Casey (Izzy Martinez), a sluggish night shift worker stuck in a dead-end job and a strained relationship with his girlfriend, Alex (Katlin Svadbik). Casey has stopped imagining a future, making his sudden fear of being hunted feel both like an external threat and a physical manifestation of everything he has repressed.

When he begins experiencing recurring nightmares and paralyzing paranoia, he turns to medical professionals. Every test comes back normal, and a therapist simply prescribes antipsychotic medications. Alex, a nursing student, notices that Casey seems to be missing two years from his past and suspects he may be experiencing dissociative amnesia. Together, they attempt to uncover the missing time period, raising more questions than answers.

Character Analysis

  • Casey (Izzy Martinez): Serves as a compelling avatar for urban burnout. His laziness acts as a psychological shield against past traumas, making his frantic spiral feel painfully recognizable. His quest to unravel the mystery becomes an accidental journey toward self-awareness.
  • Alex (Katlin Svadbik): Provides a vital, grounding contrast. Though initially frustrated by Casey’s inertia, she evolves into an indispensable ally as the boundary between reality and hallucination blurs.

Core Themes

Black uses classic horror tropes to explore stagnation vs. mortality and escapism. The dread haunting Casey represents the inevitable crash of ignoring one’s mental health and unresolved past. While the title suggests a literal predator, the film’s strongest tension comes from the possibility that the monster is essentially tied to Casey’s repressed memories.

While occasional dialogue-heavy scenes slow the pacing and the open-ended ending leaves Casey’s final fate to viewer interpretation, It Hunts succeeds as a moody, atmospheric thriller that turns an ordinary life into a nightmare of suspicion and dread.

About Rain of Fire Productions

Rain of Fire Productions is an independent film production company dedicated to crafting engaging, character-driven stories across the thriller, horror, and drama genres.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

*Thank you to Gabriel Black for the screener link for review consideration. I haven’t been compensated for this review and all views and opinions expressed are my own.

Izzy Martinez, Katlin Svadbik, and J.J. Crowne in It Hunts. Photo: Gabriel Black

Television adaptation: ‘The Peripheral’ by William Gibson

The series adaptation of ‘The Peripheral’ will be available on Amazon Prime Video starting October 21, 2022. Photo: Amazon

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. His first novel, “Neuromancer,” won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of “Count Zero,” “Burning Chrome,” “Mona Lisa Overdrive,” “Virtual Light,” “Idoru,” “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” “Pattern Recognition,” “Spook Country,” “Zero History,” “Distrust That Particular Flavor,” “The Peripheral,” and “Agency.” “The Peripheral,” a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future, has been adapted into a series and will air on Amazon Prime Video beginning on October 21, 2022. The first season consists of eight episodes and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, and Jack Reynor. (Amazon, 2022)

“The Peripheral” – Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she is trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she has had to let the shooter games go.

Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there are a few have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby. 

Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He has got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game is not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad. Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.

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Television adaptation: Paper Girls comic book series

The television adaptation of the Paper Girls comic book series is available on Amazon Prime Video. Photo: google

Paper Girls is a mystery/science fiction comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang, published by American company Image Comics. Paper Girls follows the story of four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls (Erin, MacKenzie, KJ, and Tiffany) set in Stony Stream, a fictional suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. As they are out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, the town is struck by an invasion from a mysterious force from the future. The girls become unwillingly caught up in the conflict between two warring factions of time travelers. The television adaptation premiered on Amazon Prime Video on July 29, 2022 and consists of eight episodes. (Wikipedia, 2022)

Paper Girls is a science fiction drama television series created by Stephany Folsom based on the comic book series. It stars Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin, Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng, Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle, Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman, and Ali Wong as Adult Erin. The girls become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future – they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.

This series premiered on Friday July 29 and I just watched the first episode and judging by the comments online, it is being compared to Stranger Things (I have never watched that show). The first episode introduces the main characters and sets off the time traveling where the first meet Adult Erin. Being a big fan of science fiction, especially time travelling, it looks interesting. The story line goes back and forth between the past, present, and future so I hope I do not lose interest because I really want to see it through. The best thing is that all eight episodes are available now, so I can probably binge watch the entire season.

Paper Girls comic book. Photo: google