You'd swear that a film titled "The Hunter" and starring Willem Dafoe would be some dark, mud-caked descent into the primal nature of man.

But in the taut Aussie thriller, directed by Daniel Nettheim, danger and mystery don't lie in the wild forests of Tasmania, where Dafoe is pursuing the last Tasmanian Tiger. It's the encroaching, corrupting modern world lurkin.....