A new red band trailer for Hunters, posted to Prime Video’s YouTube, reveals just how brutally Peele’s executed Weil’s vision. The new trailer teases the show’s stylish approach to ultra-violent Nazi-hunting and allows Pacino to grumble about the “bunch of Nazi f**ks” before mercilessly executing them. The images that follow feel as violently savage as some of the kills in Prime’s The Boys, everything from impalement to testicular blow-torching is on the menu. This isn’t to say the Hunters don’t have deserving victims; aside from the fact that they’re Nazis, the show’s bad guys are featured engaging in some violent acts of their own. There’s even a quick shot that implies some weird Nazi ritual involving human blood and milk. See for yourself below:
Hyperviolence aside, the series comes from a personal place for Weil, who told a TCA panel earlier this year that he wrote the series as a “love letter” to his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Weil sees the series as a way to continue his ancestor’s fight against Nazis, especially with the current “rise of anti-Semitism and xenophobia.” Although the story of Hunters may be fictional, there were real people who hunted Nazis in Europe, such as the group that captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, as seen in 2018’s Operation: Finale. There were also real-life Nazi-hunters in the United States, a collection of historians, investigators, and prosecutors whose goal was to revoke the citizenship of Nazi war criminals who had schemed their way into the country.
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