Sure they're pretty, sexy, and scantily clad, but Daria and Tisa are also smart, skilled, and more than competent when it comes to kicking butt with laser guns or their bare knees. Genre stalwart Brinke Stevens pops up (and out) to beef up the T&A, but the main plot sticks surprisingly close to Connell's original story.Īll of that is good, low budget fun, but the element that tips the scales for me is found in the two lead characters. Is it the final film from the director of The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1975) and Zombiethon (1986)? Yes, yes it is, but it's also a fun little adventure with laser battles, rubber suited monsters, a horny robot, and some entertaining production design from its jungle "exteriors" to the castle walls adorned with taxidermied beasts and human heads. Okay, I can already hear you laughing at this pick and reaching for the 'unsubscribe' button, but hear me out. The first adaptation for the screen arrived eight years later, and many more followed both official and unofficial including John Woo's ridiculously fun Hard Target (1993), the soft-ish-core porn of The Suckers (1972), the Rutger Hauer-starring Surviving the Game (1994), and the gloriously bonkers Turkey Shoot (1982). Richard Connell's acclaimed short story was published in 1924, and its tale of a man captured by a mad aristocratic sportsman and hunted as the most challenging prey quickly caught the public's attention. The detractors are misinformed as to the point of The Hunt (2019?) – and they seem to be equally oblivious as to how these films end (ie the intended targets defeat the merciless killers) – but the bigger head-scratcher is their general obliviousness that the film is just the latest variation in a long line of adaptations of "The Most Dangerous Game." As you've undoubtedly heard, a studio film scheduled for nation-wide release was recently pulled from Universal's schedule in response to a tweet by the president and a vocal outcry by conservative pundits and followers.
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