Director Ken Dixon not only brings us a film with one of the greatest titles ever written, because what could be better than Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, but he also gives us another fine entry in “Films based on Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” with this particular offering taking that well-worn premise into…
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Hart to Hart: Hunted Harts (1983) – Review
Let us turn our eye toward a 1980s television mystery series that dealt with a husband-and-wife team who got mixed up in such things as smuggling, theft, corporate and international espionage, but more often than it, it was murder. Today we will be looking at their venture into the ever-so-popular genre premise of The Most…
Turkey Shoot (1982) – Review
I don’t know how the idea of making a dystopian movie combining Mervyn Leroy’s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang with Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” came to pass – I’m betting alcohol was involved – but director Brian Trenchard-Smith took that very unique mixture and gave us a film…
Gunsmoke: Matt Dillon Must Die (1974) – Review
It’s not only impressive that Gunsmoke ran for a total of twenty seasons but the fact that it started as a popular radio series, which ran from 1952 to 1961, which is truly impressive. But while Gunsmoke was a show that helped usher in the television Western, as they say, all good things must come…
The Beast Must Die (1974) – Review
There have been adaptations of The Most Dangerous Game, where a millionaire big game hunter decides he needs a real challenge, but this film ups the ante by having the prey be a werewolf instead of a human, Yet that was not enough for Amicus Pictures as we also get an Agatha Christie “And Then…