![]() ![]() Living with his dog Thor, this hunter stays vigilant in case the killer strikes again. He resists, refusing to give up hope, and outfits his cabin with high-tech surveillance equipment. Maybe that’s because his ex-wife is now pregnant by another man and wants Rayburn to sign a death certificate for their child, so they can achieve closure with a funeral. Even though a chastened Rayburn has stopped trapping game to run a wildlife preserve (Gwen hated his animal cruelty), his love of liquor continues unabated. ![]() Why? That kind of character detail goes frustratingly unexamined. Guilt is eating at him, though it’s clear he’d been drinking heavily before her disappearance. Rayburn had left her in his truck while he freshened his booze supply. Coster-Waldau’s character, an alcoholic hunter named Rayburn Swanson, has been trying to track the whereabouts of his daughter, Gwen, who went missing five years ago when she was just 14. To be fair, the Danish actor goes the extra mile in The Silencing (on VOD starting August 14th), which is more than you can say for the pedestrian work of director Robin Pront and screenwriter Micah Ranum. Sound familiar? It falls to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister on Game of Thrones) to bring down the culprit. A serial killer is hunting teen girls in the deep Minnesota woods. ![]()
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