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A quartet of teenagers - Johnny (Robert Reed) and Betty (June Kenney),
Pete (Eugene Persson) and Jeannie (Joan Lora) - decide to explore an
uncharted island when on a boattrip their skipper Tony (Troy Patterson)
has drunkenly passed out. Against their expectations, they find a house on
the island that belongs to big game hunter Balleau (Wilton Graff), who
appears to be quite a charming host and even offers our youngsters
accomodations for the night - since he claims it is much to dangerous to
cross the island and make it back to their boat in the dark.
However, from Balleau's wife Sandra (Lilyan Chauvin) and her lover Dean
(Walter Brooke) they learn a few things about their host that are not
quite so pleasing: That Balleau enjoys hunting humans on the island, and
the youngsters are his next game. Sandra and Dean have desperately tried
to escape, but with no success so far ... but now, the kids could destract
Balleau while the couple makes it to the boat ...
A few days later, our teenage quartet finds Dean and Sandra - as
stuffed exhibits in Balleau's trophy room. And Balleau promises Johnny and
Pete - along with drunk Captain Tony who now turns out to be a former
employee of Balleau's who was responsible for delivering him fresh humans
- to be the game in his next hunting expedition - which starts right now.
The girls Balleau wants to keep as company ...
Once Johnny, Pete and Tony are out in the jungle and have found a gun
where Balleau has promised them to find one, Tony shows his true colours,
takes the gun for himself and breaks up with the others ... only to run
right into the arms of Balleau who cold-bloodedly kill him. But while
Balleau continues looking for the kids in the jungle - and even watches in
cold blood as his faithful servant Jondor (Bobby Hall) sinks into the
swamp -, the boys make it back to the house and the girls make it out of
the house, and eventually they meet ... and decide to go back to the house
to fetch some weapons ...
Finally, Balleau has tracked them back to his house, right to his
trophy room, but when he prepares to kill them, he realizes he has an
unwanted guest - Jondor, who hasn't been killed in the swamp after all and
now comes back to have his revenge on his master.
And in the end, Balleau ends up being the latest exhibit in his trophy
room ...
This cheapo version of Most
Dangerous Game certainly does not live up to the original - but
taken by its own merits, the film isn't even half bad, a pulpy horror
thriller full of macabre details and quite a few gory effects (including
playing around with body parts, producing a shrunken head and a bath in an
acid tank) not usual in films from the period (remember, this was still
pre-Blood Feast). And Wilton
graff makes a good villain. That's not to say this film is a masterpiece
or trailblazing or anything, it's just solid B-entertainment - and who
could ask for more ?
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