Official THE HUNT Trailer Watch the new THE HUNT trailer! The film, directed by Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah), stars Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Emma Roberts, and Ethan Suplee. THE HUNT will be released in theaters on September 27. Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen – for a very specific purpose – The Hunt.