Los Angeles (AFP)

The American studio Universal has decided to cancel the release of his film "The Hunt", which staged a violent and sadistic hunt for innocent victims, after a controversy related to the recent shootings and statements of Donald Trump.

"The Hunt", including Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank on the bill, was due out in late September in the United States.

This ultraviolent satire of the deep divide between the different American social classes shows very rich elites stalking and defeating, by pure snobbery and class contempt, the poor in rural states, traditional strongholds of the Republican Party (Wyoming, Mississippi, etc.).

The scenes of violence contained in the trailer presented at the end of July made all the more cringe teeth that America was bereaved by two shootings that left 31 dead Saturday, August 3.

Donald Trump did not fail to react to this film which makes - passicially and voluntarily exaggerated - his supporters for victims of gratuitous violence.

"The leftist Hollywood is racist at the highest point, and with great anger and hatred!", Tweeted Friday the American president. "The film that is going out is trying to ignite the fire and cause chaos," he added, without explicitly quoting "The Hunt".

"They create their own violence and then they blame others, they are the real racists and they are very bad for our country," said the billionaire Republican, himself regularly accused of racism.

"While Universal Pictures has already suspended the marketing campaign for The Hunt, the studio has decided, after much thought, to cancel our plans for the release of the film," said a spokesman for Universal in a statement sent to the AFP.

"We support our directors and help distribute the films of these visionary and daring creators, like those of this satirical and social thriller, but we understand that this is not the right time to release this film," he said. added.

"The Hunt" was directed by Craig Zobel ("The Survivors", 2015) and written by Damon Lindelof, co-creator and screenwriter of the hit series "Lost".

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