On a vacation road trip to Lake Tahoe, nine unassuming college kids stumble into the den of a night-stalking secret clan who herd them into a mysterious enclave. Now deep into the woods and cut off from the modern world, the young collegians are forced to trust the mom and pop leaders of the clan – Millie (three-time Academy Award nominee Piper Laurie), the menacing matriarch of the village, and Lawrence (Conrad Janis), it’s smiling but sinister patriarch. But when the sect’s deadly rituals becomes the stuff of horror and their friends start to disappear into the night, the remaining kids are forced to run for their lives as these two worlds collide.
Based on actual events of the film’s screenwriter Maria Janis while in Casablanca, Morocco, Bad Blood... The Hunger is the first in a trilogy of future/retro chillers that will make anyone question where their next meat course came from.