I love this movie so much

Crappy film

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Taking a look at a Mill Creek box set that a fellow IMDber has very kindly sent me,I spotted a title that appeared to be inspired by The Most Dangerous Game",which led to me getting ready for the bloodlust to be unleashed.The plot:Travelling round in the tropics,a group of teens spot a deserted island.Stepping on the island,the teens find it to be filled with exotic wild life.Finding a strange large pit on the island,the gang are suddenly knocked out.Waking up the gang meet Dr. Albert Balleau,who is a reclusive millionaire.Giving them a warm welcome,Balleau soon reveals that along with being a millionaire,he is also a big game hunter.View on the film:Chewing the entire island, Wilton Graff gives a delicious performance as Balleau,with Graff curling his wide grin at every big game target,as writer/director Ralph Brooke bases Balleau in a spooky cave mansion.Sending a bunch of teens to a dangerous game,the screenplay by Brooke has fun poking at teen movie traditions,from the sassy girl to the glasses-wearing geek.Whilst the title offers some surprisingly blunt kills,Brooke sadly fails to give any of the teens "their" moment,and also takes a restrained approach in building up anticipation for the final game between Balleau,which leads to this bloodlust not being as thirsty as it should have been.

I have to say firstly that I enjoyed this economical, drive-in version of "The Most Dangerous Game", with future Mike Brady (Reed) starring as one of four youths who become stranded on an island with wealthy madman (Graff) whose favourite sport is hunting humans on his otherwise uninhabited and unforgiving jungle island.Gene Persson, June Kenney and Joan Lora co-star as Reed's concerned companions, while Walter Brooke has a minor supporting role as one of Graff's unfortunate specimens, kept in toe for his chess playing abilities until he's caught philandering with Graff's attractive and neglected wife (Chauvin). Reed isn't bad, although his tonal inflexions are 'father knows best' like even eight years early of "The Brady Bunch". While not such a good actress, I was quite captivated by Joan Lora whose character had little depth, but plenty of appeal.Sometimes amateurish and puerile, at other times quite macabre with some relatively graphic horror for its vintage (check out the acid tank scenes), "Bloodlust" is taut and compelling and surprisingly entertaining in spite of its lack of sophistication and originality. At barely 70 minutes, it's also quite compact, efficient viewing.

This film isn't really as despicable as it's been described. For those who haven't seen "The Most Dangerous Game" it has a charm of its own. The jungle scenes, so remarkable in the source film are so much better - breath-taking at times - and the actors don't begin to touch the original ones, granted. The budget must have been incredibly small. Nevertheless the film gets by rather well given the meager resources. It's amusing but sometimes irritating to watch people in their twenties acting like and calling themselves teenagers, though. I didn't mind watching this film. It came in a box with many other horror films I'll probably never see but it was a pleasant surprise.Curtis Stotlar

"The Most Dangerous Game" must be the most adapted short story to film ever, honestly. Just off the top of my head, besides the versions that have the same title, there is also stuff like The Pest, The Condemned, Battle Royale, and George Carlin's skit about what to do with capital punishment inmates, and more.Thus, frankly, this movie does not have anything to offer. The story has been done before and since, the before accounts to the lack of originality and the since accounts to the more modern audience friendly representations, and also, really, how many of these films are really that interesting in the first place? However, it's fun in the way it's supposed to be. Four kids get trapped an island, hunted by a rich bloodthirsty tycoon or whatever, and the kids actually manage from time to time to surprise me by occasionally making a good decision or two. This movie is something of an early teen hacker horror movie, so it has the usual collection of dumb teens (well, not the usual collection, just a collection), and they run around just trying to survive, so it's cool.The only thing is that this movie does have a surprising amount of gore for the time. It's very little in terms of amount, but the two instances quite stand out. At one point, a man pulls a length of human skin from a refrigerator. At the end, the rich millionaire gets crucified by his own Igor-like servant. Those two scenes are pretty shocking, especially for the time.--PolarisDiB