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.

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.

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. But other than that, there's nothing to recommend about this cheaply filmed horror movie where the quality is so low that anything possibly scary about it ends up being lost. Bad photography and sound, poor acting by most and most obviously an insipid screenplay make this one of the most forgettable of low-grade horror films all over the country through drive-ins and underground showings. There are some classics among this genre, but sadly this isn't one of them.Robert Reed does add a touch of class, and it is apparent that as much as he probably hated being in it (being a stage trained actor), he still took it as seriously as he would later do with the squeaky clean Mike Brady. Wilton Graff is the campy villain who resembles assumptive portraits of Lucifer and eats his role up as if he was trying to out-do all of those Tod Slaughter British horror classics of the 30's and any of Bela Lugosi's later works. You half expect him to quote Lugosi from "Bride of the Monster". That would be an improvement over the dialog he is forced to recite.

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.