The film is only an hour long and still manages to stretch itself hopelessly thin, saving the hunt for the final twenty minutes. Leslie Banks is a more flamboyant forebear to Vincent Price here and the camera loves to zoom in on him while he’s mugging. Zaroff turns Bob loose in the woods with a knife and his wits and then sets out to kill him and put his head in his trophy room.īased on the short story of the same name by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game represents a symbolic if not the literal starting point for the humans hunting humans subgenre. The solution Zaroff has created to give himself a challenge is to hunt the most dangerous prey of all: mankind. Unfortunately for Bob, Zaroff is an avid hunter himself who has hunted all the greatest prey in the known world and grown bored of the lack of challenge. Luckily for Bob, the island is owned by a man named Zaroff (Leslie Banks) who maintains a palatial homestead there. World-renowned hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McRea) is shipwrecked on a mysterious island.

So in honor of the current glut of movies about men who hunt men here are ten more to fill your primal urge. Lately, with the recent release of The Purge: Election Year and Carnage Park as well as the upcoming release of Rob Zombie’s 31, the concept is back in vogue. The mass saturation of these kinds of films was in the late 70s through the early 90s but they’ve popped up almost since the advent of moving pictures. Movies about humans hunting human have never really been out of fashion.

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