by Alex Billington
April 20, 2026
Source: YouTube
“You’re safe as long as you stay out of the water.” Aura Enterainment has debuted the official trailer for a bonkers dumb extra wild new animal horror movie called Hungry, about a hippo from hell hunting people down. The riff is that this is pretty much what if Hungry Hungry Hippos (the board game) was turned into a horror movie, but they don’t really have the rights to the game, so it’s not actually connected to it that way. Just another brutally fun creature feature horror about a vicious massive hippopotamus out in the Louisiana swamps! “All aboard the swamp tour from hell.” The story follows a group of thrill-seeking tourists on a riverboat tour through treacherous Louisiana swamp lands. Lured off the beaten path by the promise of an exclusive adventure, they find themselves fighting for survival against a ravenous hippo lurking beneath the bayou’s murky waters. 🦛 This horror thriller stars Madison Davenport, Joaquim de Almeida, Olivia Bernstone, Tracey Bonner, Michel Curiel, Jim Meskimen, Samantha Coughlan, River Codack. This looks totally nuts! And actually entertaining. That’s one extra mean, super pissed off hippo right there.
Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for James Nunn’s horror movie Hungry, direct from YouTube:
This Hippo Isn’t Playing Games… 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. Hungry is written and directed by English genre filmmaker James Nunn, director of the films Tower Block, Eliminators, The Marine 5 & 6, One Shot, Shark Bait, One More Shot, and Wildcat previously. Produced by Ben Jacques; from Signature Entertainment in the UK. With makeup FX designed by Dan Martin; special FX supervised by Kenneth Cassar of Extreme Effects; and visual FX from Magic Dust VFX. Aura Entertainment will debut Nunn’s Hungry horror movie direct-to-VOD starting June 23rd, 2026 coming up in the summer. Look any good?
