Best movie of this year hands down!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

While on vacation, two young couples, Johnny and Betty (Robert Reed and June Kenny) and Pete and Jeanne (Gene Persson and Joan Lora), happen upon the remote island retreat of wealthy, deranged big game hunter Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff), who, having acquired a bloodlust as a sniper during the war, continues to target humans as his prey.There's no denying that Bloodlust! lacks originality, being a blatant retelling of the classic thriller The Most Dangerous Game (1932), but it isn't completely without merit: the young(ish) cast members are appealing, Graff makes for a great boo-hiss villain, and the whole thing benefits from a suitably sadistic vibe, with even a smattering of (black and white) gore thrown in for good measure, including the skin from a victim's head being stuffed, a severed foot, an arrow through the stomach, a henchman dissolved in an acid bath, and a bloody demise for Balleau, impaled through the neck and wrists in his own trophy room.With all of that to recommend it, the current IMDb rating of 3.1 seems a little unfair to me.

This is how to make a good drive in movie.It's a rendition of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", only instead of a hunter being hunted, it's many other characters.In this version, the sadistic hunter has a system by which he is supplied with people to hunt. It was made in a day when such wackos were considered to be wackos. Today, he'd be cheered by the very IMDb nerds he would hunt.In good drive in style, we have four likable, even if clichéd, teenagers. Well, three are clichés-a nerd, a super jock, and a tough judo expert girl. The other girl is simply scared for most of the movie, which makes her rather three dimensional under the circumstances, and quite believable.It's done "camp drive in" style, and isn't as good as the Joel McCrea classic, but then the McCrea-Wray classic had one of the most charismatic actors in support, Robert Armstrong. Here, the doomed drunk of Armstrong is featured in another way. Nothing against the supporting cast, but Armstrong was a tough act to follow.Still, this is a very likable film. The supporting characters help a lot, but the sadistic hunter is a bit drab. He's played with the "subdued sadism" that was popular in the sixties and seventies, so it isn't "bad acting", just simply a concept of the era.Fun popcorn and soda film.

This was an enjoyable retelling of 'The Most Dangerous Game'. I can't imagine this movie was meant for anything other than drive-ins, so it's got a low production quality and doesn't try to be anything it's not. Campy teenagers tell campy jokes until campy trouble strikes and concludes with campy action. Understand that you're not getting into a movie that will ever join the 1932 release in the Criterion collection, rather a cheesy old horror movie with a young Pa Brady trying to save the day. For fans of vintage camp, not for someone looking for the next undiscovered gem of classy cinema.Rating: 22/40

A group of youngsters land on a beautiful, seemingly deserted island while taking a detour on their boating trip. After exploring the wooded island for a few hours they run into a seemingly sweet older man who convinces them to stay at his house since it is getting dark and there are a lot of scary animals roaming the woods at night. The group all agree but there's just something not right about this older man. It turns out he is a crazy millionaire who lets victims loose on the island while he hunts them down and kills them to keep as "trophies". Really not a bad story (although not original) but the execution really is a bit silly. The dialog really is bad especially at the beginning. Robert Reed plays one of the youngsters in an early role of his. It is somehow amusing to hear his voice once you know him as Mike Brady. Although most of the acting was plastic, I thought the part of the crazy millionaire played by Wilton Graff, was pretty decent in what is clearly a role best suited for Vincent Price. A few of the bit parts were well played too actually. This is a remake of "The most dangerous game" that falls short in many places but I really didn't feel bored with this 68 minute movie.