morrison-dylan-fan 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.

dougdoepke Two teen couples get stranded on an island presided over by a guy with strange hunting habits.Decent drive-in version of the Most Dangerous Game (1932). Comparing the two, however, is like comparing Pepsi with blended whiskey. This flick was intended for the teen crowd, so judging it by elevated standards is unfair. Instead, it should be compared with its drive-in peers. After all, who goes to see a film titled Bloodlust besides teens of the time. By those lesser standards, it's not bad. I like the nerdy couple (Lora and Persson), a twosome I can identify with. Set decoration too is pretty good at creating atmosphere, while Graff makes an imperiously dislikable villain. What strikes me, however, is hunky Johnny's (Reed) skintight sweater. Usually in these epics, it's the girl who flaunts her body in revealing ways. Not here, instead Betty (Kenny) stays demurely dressed the whole time. Too bad. Anyway, fans expecting a laughably bad movie may be disappointed, because, the results manage a fairly effective drive-in gore-fest.

Michael_Elliott Bloodlust! (1961) * 1/2 (out of 4) Yet another take off on The Most Dangerous Game but here's a case where you should stick with the original. Four friends go to what they think is a deserted island to have some fun but they are taken hostage by a deranged hunter (Wilton Graff) who plans on stalking them as prey. It's strange but I find the source material to be one of the greatest stories out there and I think it would be very hard to not be able to make a good film out of it. However, that's exactly what's done here as the screenwriter obviously sucked every bit of life out of the story and left us with a dull mess of a film. The most interesting aspect of the story is the hunt between the two sides but that's not the case here as the hunt doesn't happen until the film is pretty much over and even then that so called hunt doesn't go anywhere. It also doesn't help matters that one never fears for any of the main characters as they aren't ever put into any real danger. Graff doesn't make for the best bad guy but while watching the film I couldn't help but wonder what Vincent Price would have been like in the role. Robert Reed from The Brady Bunch plays the main guy and is okay in the film but the rest of the teens are just boring.

Thorsten-Krings This is a nice and well made B-movie and surprisingly it works quite well. It's not one of those B-movies that are just plain boring. The story, a take on the classic Count Zaroff, is well told- although at times fairly gruesome for the early 60s (though my edition states 59 as year of origin). The acting is surprisingly competent and even the sets are fairly convincing. All in all it may not be a stroke of genius but it's and atmospheric and entertaining film. There are great performances, partivularly the diabolic and theatrical villain but the rest of the cast are really quite good. The interesting thing is that this film is sort of a teenage version of Count Zaroff and therefore actually pre dates the genre of teen horror flics. Absolutely watchable and entertaining.