Bloodlust!

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with title and credits shown over an oil painting of a human skull and clawing hand. A fishing boat sits on a calm ocean. Two couples amuse themselves while on vacation. Johnny Randall (Robert Reed) and his girlfriend Betty Scott (June Kelley) are skeet shooting using empty liquor bottles for targets. Pete Garwood (Eugene Persson) and his girlfriend Jeanne Perry (Joan Lara) are fishing. The captain, Tony (Troy Patterson) is an unreliable drunk. Johnny is a good shot, but they are out of targets, so he decides to get amorous with Betty. Betty, the daughter of a Judo expert, demonstrates that she can handle herself in the clutch. Pete notices an island that was obscured earlier by clouds and mist. They decide to take the launch to the island and ask Tony to maneuver closer. Tony has passed out from drink, so Johnny maneuvers the boat closer to the island and the four take the launch to the beach. Tony wakes to see them leave and screams, "Come back. Come back you fools. Don't land there. Come back." The four land on the beach and go exploring. They do not see a man creep out from behind a rock and take their boat back out to sea. Johnny finds a large crab and they decide to have a clambake. The four head inland to gather banana leaves and Johnny falls into a large pit covered by brush. Betty eases her way into the pit to secure vines around her boyfriend so Pete and Jeanne can pull him out. They are interrupted by Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff) and two of his nautically dressed staff (uncredited). He directs his men to pull Johnny and Betty out of the pit.In a well-appointed trophy room, Balleau explains how he came to the island after the war. The walls of the room are covered with the heads of wild beasts. The two couples listen with interest, unaware they've entered a trap that will nearly cost them all their lives. Balleau explains he has developed a passion for hunting, "As other men collect fame and riches, I collect trophies." A very drunk Dean Gerrard (Walter Brooke) bursts into the room and says, "I thought you had visitors. I hear these strange voices." He dismisses himself and stumbles out of the room. Balleau apologizes for his house guest, explaining that he is a brilliant man when not drinking and an excellent chess player. When Johnny explains that they should be leaving, Balleau informs all four that it will not be possible to leave tonight. The jungle is far too dangerous to wander through at night. Johnny is concerned that when Tony finds them missing he might just return to the mainland and forget to return to find them. Pete proudly announces, "Don't worry about that. Tony won't be going anywhere without us. I made sure of that before we left the boat by taking the rotor. He won't be able to start the engine without it." A well-dressed woman wearing pearls and bracelets enters the room. Balleau joins her and grabs her arm. "May I present my wife," he announces. Sandra Balleau (Lilyan Chauvin) is obviously terrified of her husband, but does manage to speak politely with the new guests. Sandra escorts Betty and Jeanne to a guest room. Jondor (Bobby Hall) enters the room and escorts Johnny and Pete to their room. Before they leave, Balleau tells them, "Goodnight. Don't worry, everything will be taken care of." Balleau pours himself a drink. Sometime later, in the same room, and at the same table, Sandra and Dean embrace and kiss. Sandra warns her lover that her husband could walk in any time and that there are spies all over the house. Dean tells Sandra they must try again, but Sandra warns, "But how Dean, how? He can never allow anyone to leave this place alive. And he has made sure no one ever will." Dean explains that the arrival of the four kids may provide a chance. Balleau walks in and snidely asks his wife, "Sandra, entertaining our guest?" He invites his wife and guest to join him on a stroll of the grounds, but they beg off and return to their rooms. Before they leave Balleau warns them that the presence of the four new guests does not change the situation for them.Betty and Jeanne sit on their beds in the guest room. There is a knock on the door. Johnny and Pete enter and discuss their curious circumstances. They decide to split up and explore the house. Pete and Jeanne head in one direction while Johnny and Betty take another. Johnny and Betty only get a few feet when they are intercepted by Dean and Sandra who cover the youngster's mouths. Dean tells them to return to their room. Once there, Dean tells Johnny and Betty, "Something I want to tell you. Unless you do exactly as I say, you'll never get off this island." Pete and Jeanne take a stairway down to a storage room. They spot rats scurrying among skeletal remains of a human. Jondor enters carrying a package, but does not see the couple hiding behind crates and barrels along the wall. Pete and Jeanne enter the preparation room. A large tank is bubbling in the center of the room. Jondor re-enters the prep room and opens the blinds on a tank. A woman's body is floating inside. Jondor pulls a human foot from a sink and places it on a table. He pulls the skin of a human head out of the sink and stuffs a towel into the cavity. Jondor throws the remains from the sink into the boiling tank, and then departs the prep room. Pete and Jeanne leave and return to the bedroom upstairs. By this time, Dean and Sandra have finished telling their story to Johnny and Betty. Johnny concludes they must leave tonight, but Dean explains that he and Sandra have been trying, unsuccessfully, for a year. Dean explains that he has a plan. He wants to meet with Johnny and Pete in the trophy room. He tells the boys that Balleau is out hunting and that Tony is probably one of the targets. His plan is to swim out to one of the boats moored offshore with Sandra and return with help. Dean and Sandra escape the house and exit through the main gate, but Balleau knows their plan and follows them.Two days later, Johnny and Betty meet in the trophy room. Jondor enters the room and exits through a section of the wall that opens. Johnny and Betty decide to explore the hidden room. Behind the wall is a large grotto--a cave that Balleau has turned into his human trophy room. Balleau is sitting in a large, wooden chair in the center of the room. He invites the young couple in and tells them, "I have something I'd like to show you." He flicks on a light in one of the niches and the stuffed body of a man (an uncredited Harry Wilson) is seen. He is looking up with his hands up in the air. Betty screams and Balleau explains, "Welcome to my private trophy room. I had intended to show it to you in time, but why not now?" Balleau lights a second niche and explains that the man on his knees with an arrow through his hands covering his head was a convict. He tells Johnny that during the war he was a sharpshooter. He enjoyed the work so much it became a passion, then a lust. A third niche contains the stuffed remains of Dean and Sandra. Before he leaves, Balleau lights another section of the cave and explains that it can hold three or four trophies.The four young guests gather around Balleau's desk. He has explained what is to follow. Johnny is horrified, but Pete thinks it is just a joke. The girls will remain in the house while Balleau will hunt Johnny, Pete, and one more man. Jondor drags Tony into the room and places him in a chair. Balleau tells the third man, "Tony, you've outlived your usefulness to me. I paid you well to provide me with subjects in the past. I warned you not to use your boat for other purposes. But since you've been so foolish as to allow these young people to find their way here without my knowledge, I think it only right that you should share their fate." Balleau demonstrates the lethal power of the crossbow by destroying a stone horse on the mantle. He reveals his plan for the girls, then tells Jondor to lock them in their room. He tells the three men he will supply them a chance and the starting point is the Tree of Death in the center of the island.The three men arrive at the Tree of Death and find one single bullet for the gun Tony is holding. Tony decides to take the bullet and go his own way. This leaves Johnny and Pete to head for the beach and try to work their way back to the house to rescue the girls. At the house, the girls try to figure a way out of their locked room. Betty has an idea. She stages breaking a vase to muffle the sound of breaking their bedroom window. Betty and Jeanne take the ledge to an open window in another room. In the jungle, Balleau and Jondor hunt the three men. Tony sits on a log to rest and hears Jondor fall and reveal their position in the jungle. Tony runs, doubles back, and gets the drop on Balleau. He takes careful aim, and fires the gun, but nothing happens. Balleau delights in explaining that the gun has no firing pin. After toying with the unreliable drunk, Balleau shoots and kills Tony. Pete and Johnny hear Tony's scream, but continue on towards the beach. The girls find their way to the prep room to find a weapon they can use. One of the staff enters the room. He disarms Betty of her knife and lunges for her. She employs her training in Judo to toss the man into the tank of boiling liquid. The skin on his face peels away as he screams. He falls back into the tank and dies. The boys stop to rest near the beach and hear Balleau and Jondor approaching. They encounter an insane man (Bill Coontz) in tattered clothes wandering around screaming. Pete manages to fall into a swamp of quicksand and is easily pulled free. Pete is covered quickly with leeches, which he and Johnny pull off.The girls make it to the front gate and escape the residence. Jondor steps into the quicksand to retrieve the jacket Johnny left. He sinks quickly and silently, as he is mute. Instead of helping his hunting partner, Balleau laughs and tells the sinking man, "I'm grateful your own stupidity will save me the trouble of getting rid of you. It's sad the leeches will do their work so well. You might have made an interesting specimen for my museum." The insane man confronts the girls. Their screams draw the boys to their location and assistance. The man's screams draw Balleau. Johnny manages to knock the insane man out with a tree branch. The four escape into the jungle. Balleau kills the insane man with a bolt from his crossbow. He retrieves the bolt from the body and returns to the house. The four have hidden up in a tree and decide to return to the house to find weapons. They make their way back to the trophy room and force open the gun cabinet. Unfortunately there is no ammunition in the gun case. Balleau returns to the house and finds the guard at the gate dead; his neck is broken. The four enter the human trophy room with two empty guns. Balleau notices the forced gun cabinet and enters the human trophy room. Balleau sits and taunts his four young guests until they reveal themselves. After Pete tells Balleau they had nothing to do with the guards death, Balleau panics. He asks Pete to light the final niche. Jondor, covered with leeches, approaches Balleau. Balleau empties three bullets into the mute, but he still has the strength to crush Balleau in a bear hug and impale him on his own tableau. He pushes Balleau's wrists through the spikes on the wooden display rack. The two wrists and the neck bleed profusely as Balleau dies on his own display. Johnny tells his girlfriend, "Take it easy Betty. It's all over and we'll be safe now." They stare at Balleau's body as Johnny further observes, "I guess Balleau never thought he'd be the prize exhibit in his own museum." We close with a final shot of Balleau hanging on the display rack and a man screaming.

Tags: cult, murder

Review:
Entertaining take on "The Most Dangerous Game" featuring "teens" (you know, the kind in their late-20s), violence and a bit of gore.
It does feature some obnoxiously 50s dialogue, characters, and acting, but it also features some really fun stuff (like a teeny bopper girl that knows judo and flips a bad guy into a vat of acid...and we get to watch him decompose!
It might be a "The Most Dangerous Game" rip-off, but it was targeted towards teens in the drive-in era, and I think it works.It's worth the watch just to see the pre-Brady Bunch Robert Reed and the suave Wilton Graff, whose coolly underplayed madman is chilling.
But one scene stands out for me in this odd little film about an insane island-dwelling man who likes to hunt people.
It is really a fun movie if you don't take it too seriously...a good combination of the 50s teen flick and horror film!
And it is fun to see Robert Reed in an early role, years before he played the dad in BRADY BUNCH!
Reed, June Kenney, Gene Persson, and Joan Lora are all quite good as the all-American teens who stumble onto BLOODLUST island!
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..
It was, as many have pointed out, a decent (although not a blockbuster, it didn't try for that) movie version of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell.
The description on the DVD box made this look like a forerunner of the SCREAM or Friday THE 13th movies (madman stalks teens) but if I hadn't read it first I wouldn't have guessed than anyone in the cast was supposed to be under thirty (including the head of the Brady Bunch).
In an era where movie heroines in action and horror films just stood around and screamed, and would get kidnapped and have to be saved by the male hero, Betty is quite a strong character.
Wilton Graff gives his best Vincent Price imitation in the lead as the sinister Dr. Balleau who plans on hunting our teen heroes lead by Johnny Randall(played by Robert Reed).
I did find myself somewhat captivated by watching a non-Mike Brady Robert Reed and found the ending not surprising for a plot turn (everyone knows how these "Most Dangerous Game" movies end), but by the type of graphic violence.
When Reed later complained about his Brady Bunch scripts, he probably didn't point to this movie as an example of good writing.
stars a 30 year old Robert Reed as "teenager", Johnny Randall, the leader of a group of other "teens", who venture onto a mysterious island in search of adventure.
You have two guys and two girls; one jock and one nerd (no offense to Velma).I feel that there is a decent amount of talent that was gathered for this film, and all though the story was not the best to follow it was a good movie.For originality, for talent, and for acting; I would give the film at least three stars out of five.
Though, a hunter hunting the rarest of game does not stand against the horror films of today, there is one scene in the film that will get the heart pumping three times as fast.If you are a fan of slash films, and of classical horror; this is a good movie for you to enjoy, home alone; on a dark and scary night..
No where in the film do you detect that it is a quality project--the acting stinks, the sets stink, the props stink and the script is a blatant ripoff of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (from the story by Richard Connell).
So, apart from the curiosity factor of seeing Robert Reed (the dad on THE BRADY BUNCH), there is nothing to distinguish this film from all the other grade-z drive-in movie films made during this era..
Robert Reed turns in a decent role as the hero of the film, Wilton Graff turns in a pretty convincing role as the twisted hunter who wants to hunt the four teens.
One good example is the human skin that one of the guards at Wilton Graff's house has, It just looks so funny.All in all, this movie is pretty forgettable.
(1961)" is loose remake of "The Most Dangerous Game (1932)" and it's not a bad film.
"Bloodlust!" is not nearly as good as the original film but the movie is still good - worth viewing if you liked the original film and do not mind loose remakes.I was entertained by this film - it's not exactly the same as the original so it does have a few thrills of it's own to offer a first time viewer.I would recommend watching "The Most Dangerous Game (1932)" and then watching "Bloodlust!
(1961)" - not to compare the two films necessarily but to watch a different group of people being hunted down by a similar type of maniac in a similar story for a double feature.6/10.
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).
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.
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.
A hunter lures people (including not so closeted gay Brady Dad, Harry Reed and June Kenney from "Earth Vs. the Spider" and "Attack of the Puppet People") to his private island where he plays a version of "The Most Dangerous Game" by hunting said people I tried to watch the movie as is.
It was easily the worst "Most Dangerous Game" rip off I've seen since I watched "The Pest" But thankfully Mike, Crow, and Tom saved my from the purgatory when I flipped the DVD over and re-watched the film, this time MSTied and while it's not the best episode of MST3K, it's still pretty damn funny Normal movie Grade: F MST grade:B+DVD Extras: Both regular and MSTied Versions; and Theatrical Trailer.
It's got that classic taste of cheesiness and fun for horror films.This is very close to the book "The Most Dangerous Game", so I was intrigued by it.
For some good cheesiness and a fun time, grab the popcorn and watch a former museum keeper hunt down Mike Brady.Movie: 2/10 and Mystery Science Theater 3000 version: 8/10.
This film is obviously a take on the story, "The Most Dangerous Game", only it features two couples rather than the one person in the story.
I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater and it does some okay things, but overall, it just comes across as a bit lame and there are more than a couple of plot holes in this one.
The film features Robert Reed as one of the four who come to the island because it looks cool and it features a lot of henchmen wearing sailor outfits that look right out of a Popeye cartoon and a man who likes to go out for an evening's diversion.
He seems friendly enough, but while exploring the house they find he has quite a number of deadly secrets, the main one being the fact he likes to hunt people on the island.
Soon the two guys in the group are sent into the forest along with the captain of their boat to be hunted by the hunter with his trusty crossbow.This made for a rather good episode of MST3K.
Yes, it was a rip-off of "The Most Dangerous Game", but it was fun.The story is about a group of young people who travel to an island, because of a suggestion by their captain.
Reed plays the hero, and I kept expecting him to suddenly blurt out some moral lesson, as he often did in his most famous role.If you really want to watch this movie and like it, then you should watch the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode where they show it.
A group of teenagers ends up on an island, run be a psychopathic hunter who is bored with animals and hunts humans instead.
This movie is a b-grade version of "The Most Dangerous Game" in which a bunch of stranded teens are hunted down one by one by a crazed man.
He assures his visitors that he has room for more trophies, and soon they are in the dark jungle, prey for the lunatic hunter with a crossbow...Yes, this story is obviously ripped off completely from the classic 'The Most Dangerous Game'.
1st watched 7/11/2014 – 3 out of 10(Dir-Ralph Brooke): Unimpressive horror movie about another mad doctor on a mostly un-inhabited island who makes a game out of chasing down and hunting all different kids of mammals and animals.
The father from "Brady Bunch" – a young Robert Reed – plays one of the young adults who are taking a fun boat ride when they encounter an unknown island, and direct the drunk captain to put them ashore so they can see what's there(they are thinking treasure??).
This very short movie(68 minutes) – does a good job of keeping the pace going and is interesting as a story, but there are too many un-intentionally comical scenes where the viewer just shakes his head about the responses of the characters to the situation.
I enjoyed this movie, I didn't try to take it seriously or try to notice flaws and the like,, I think it was meant to be sorta campy and not taken to seriously by anybody, you have a rich eccentric on an island who has big game trophies ,, and I guess he got bored hunting animals so he decides instead to ramp up the challenge and hunt humans..
a bunch of kids get marooned on "his" little corner of the world, and they come upon his mansion,, at first the gentleman seems nice enough and wants them to stay the night until morning,, but soon these kids find out that the gentleman has some ulterior motives, the kids meet a man and woman who convince them that this is not the safest place to be and try to arrange an escape,, needless to say that really isn't a good idea when you have a professional hunter stalking you every step of the way..
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.
Not as funny as some bad movies, but definitely worth watching for good campy fun.
The sets are better then a lot of low budget movies, but they are still not very good.
They are more entertaining then a lot of the big-budget mainstream crap that comes from the big studios.This movie is not a low budget bad movie gem like 'Plan 9' or 'Ro-Man' but it is pretty funny at times and very violent for the period when it was made.
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..
What they discover when they arrive is that the island is owned by Dr. Balleau, an eccentric man with a passion for big-game hunting.
Ralph Brooke's "Most Dangerous Game" hunter Wilton Graff (as Balleau) doesn't help much.
Taking its cues from the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", "Bloodlust" centers around a group of teenagers who land on a desolate island inhabited only by a mysterious, homicidal eccentric millionaire who likes to hunt and has surrounded himself with cronies.
You know when you have such a fail safe concept as an obsessed great white hunter who is bored with normal prey decides to take up the perfect sport and hunt humans - How come the movies normally suck.
Now, Dr. Balleau is looking for even more cunning and dangerous game to hunt on his island.
was a much better movie when it was known as The Most Dangerous Game (1932).
And (especially true with low budgets) the imagination is capable of creating far more horrific images than can be created by using a cheap rubber foot.If you find the concept of a nut-job hunting people as sport appealing, watch The Most Dangerous Game.
With a concept borrowed from "The Most Dangerous Game", and the future dad of "The Brady Bunch", "Bloodlust" achieves little in the way of intrigue or suspense, and if you don't manage to break into a chuckle or two while watching it, you're taking the film way too seriously.Johnny Randall (Robert Reed) is the self appointed leader of two young couples who find themselves stranded on an island with a madman (Wilton Graff), who plans on adding them to his trophy case, or rather his trophy cave, after giving them a chance to make a break for it from the island's center, starting at the "Tree of Death".
In one of many rip-off's of the classic "The Most Dangerous Game", a quartet of young people is chased around a jungle island by a bloodthirsty hunter.
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..
Not a terrific movie by any stretch, but not as bad as its rep, either.Instead of taking it seriously, watch it for what it is: a cheesy remake of "The Most Dangerous Game." Of course, it's not suspenseful--except as the runtime nears its end, with no obvious resolution in sight--but the story's been told so many times, how could it be?
Johnny Randall (a solid Robert Reed; the father on "The Brady Bunch"), Betty Scott (tasty blonde June Kenney), Peter Garwood (the likable Gene Perrson), and Jeanne Perry (fetching brunette Joan Lora) are four teenagers who find themselves trapped on a remote secluded and uncharted tropical island run by the evil Dr. Albert Balleau (essayed with deliciously slimy relish by Wilton Graff), a real sadist who gets his sick kicks out of ruthlessly hunting humans in the jungle with a crossbow.
Yes, the comparison to both "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Island of Lost Souls" (later two "Dr. Moreau" movies) are obvious from the get-go, and the presence of Robert Reed will also create curiosity.
Yet another remake of Most Dangerous game, this time a bunch of young adults coming upon an island where the mad man who lives there decides to hunt them.
"The Most Dangerous Game" must be the most adapted short story to film ever, honestly.
The script is your average Most Dangerous Game (1932) rip-off, a bunch of people are let loose & hunted down for sport & while films with this theme & basic storyline have slight variations when it comes to it that's about all there is to them.
Unfortunately for these types of films to work there needs to be some sort of dynamic between the hunter(s) & the hunted, Bloodlust!
(no, I don't know what the exclamation mark is for...) isn't great, in fact I wouldn't feel particularly bad if I was to describe it as a boring piece of 60's film-making that really doesn't have any place in todays cinematic landscape because there is much better out there & with that in mind may I point you in the direction of the fantastic Turkey Shoot (1982) which has a similar hunter/hunted theme but is far superior in every way....