Hungry – Jaws in the Swamp as a Killer Hippo Goes on the Rampage
A new survival horror flick is making waves ahead of its release, with Hungry taking a surprisingly straight-faced approach to a wild premise. Directed by James Nunn (Shark Bait), the film follows a group of tourists whose riverboat excursion through the Louisiana swamps turns into a nightmare when they become stranded and hunted by a relentless predator, a rogue hippopotamus. Rather than leaning into camp, despite the fun Hungry Hippos nod in the title, Hungry plays things with deadly seriousness, framing its central threat in the same vein as classic creature features like Jaws, but with a land-and-water menace that feels both fresh and grounded in real-world danger.
The cast, led by Madison Davenport and Joaquim de Almeida, brings together a mix of familiar faces and character actors, all thrown into a tense, survival-driven narrative that’s been described as playing out like a slasher film, with the hippo as its unstoppable killer. With this first trailer featuring a pretty convincing beastie and a confirmed digital launch set for June 23, 2026, Hungry is positioning itself as a mid-budget genre piece that could strike a balance between gritty tension and cult crowd pleaser. If it fully commits to its tone, it may well stand out as one of the more memorable creature features of the year.
HUNGRY follows thrill-seeking tourists on a riverboat tour through the treacherous Louisiana swamplands. Lured off the beaten path by the promise of an exclusive adventure, they soon find themselves fighting for survival against a ravenous hippopotamus lurking beneath the bayou’s murky waters. Set in a mysterious and dangerous landscape, HUNGRY is a tense survival thriller about an impossible battle with one of nature’s deadliest predators.
