He hunts killers. But his real scalpel is the truth
Hunter With A Scalpel (2025) is a sleek, cerebral psychological thriller that slices through the genre with surgical precision. Equal parts serial killer mystery, investigative noir, and character-driven obsession, the film introduces audiences to a new kind of hunter—one who tracks not for trophies or revenge, but for anatomy. For answers. For control.
The story follows Dr. Elias Venn, a brilliant forensic pathologist turned reclusive profiler. Once the star consultant of high-profile murder cases, Venn disappeared from the public eye after a tragedy left him emotionally gutted and professionally disgraced. Now, when a series of mutilation murders begins surfacing across several cities—each with unnerving surgical precision—law enforcement turns to the one man who understands both the scalpel… and the mind that wields it.
But Venn doesn’t just join the case—he hunts it. Unlike traditional profilers, he goes into the field, chases patterns across crime scenes like a surgeon chasing infection in the body. What he finds is chilling: the killer isn’t just leaving messages—he’s sending corrections. The scalpel is both a weapon and a philosophy. And as Venn begins to peel back the layers of the crimes, he’s forced to confront the possibility that he and the killer are bound by more than just technique.
Visually cold, methodical, and stunningly constructed, Hunter With A Scalpel is directed with an eye for detail—clinical lighting, minimalist interiors, slow-burn tension, and sudden bursts of surgical horror. As Venn draws closer to the truth, the line between profiler and predator begins to blur, building to a final confrontation that is more autopsy than action—intimate, devastating, and precise.
Because in this game… the cleaner the cut, the deeper the motive.