This is a very odd, sort of sick movie. A group of teenagers ends up on an island, run be a psychopathic hunter who is bored with animals and hunts humans instead. Since "The Most Dangerous Game," this tired old plot has played out many times. Even the original "Star Trek" did an episode like this. That said, how do you make it work. First of all, we have all these goons running around the island, working for the boss. They probably would have had numerous chances to bump the jerk off at some point. They are obviously violent men. Instead, they do his bidding. Maybe they aren't so smart. They giggle and drool most of the time. Meanwhile, even after the plot is hatched by the big guy, the people to be hunted are allowed to get together and figure out what they are going to do. There are also people being skinned in the basement and mounted in some kind of trophy cave. There is a woman floating in big aquarium. What is the motivation for this guy. Even General Zaroff in the original had a code he lived by. He was willing to face the possibility that he would be killed. In this one, one of the hunted is given a gun, but when he tries to use it, there is no firing pin. It stumbles on to its idiotic conclusion (suddenly one of the guys can't be stopped by bullets; where did that come from). It doesn't work under any sort of scrutiny.

This is a super-cheap film--made with a shoestring budget as quickly as possible. 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). This earlier movie (1932) was thrilling and original. However, over the years the story has been done and redone so many times in movies and on television (such as on GET SMART!) that it's more a giant cliché than a movie plot any more! Because of this, no one really should get writing credits since they just changed the original story here and there but didn't credit Connell (the weasels). Now if the story had been a ripoff BUT it had any energy or originality injected into it, it might have been worth seeing. However, those responsible for the film just didn't seem to care. About the only "original" elements to the story were adding more characters and grossing up the original story. Now it really wasn't gross because they budget was so low and the production so lackadaisical--the dismembered body parts just looked cheesy. 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.

Four young vacationers get off their boat to explore a mysterious island. Their drunken captain gives them a fleeting warning before passing out. The island is occupied by the mad Dr. Albert Balleau, his wife Sandra, and his loyal henchmen. His other guest Dean Gerrard is having an affair with Sandra.

Brady Bunch fans will recognize Robert Reed as one of the young people. The acting is generally bland to badly overwrought. The directing is much worst. The dialogue is a bit clunky. The staging is just bad. The weirdest scene has to be Dr. Balleau telling the kids his plan. Everybody is just standing around discussing the Marquess of Queensberry rules. This movie has its characters standing around a lot of the time. As for the manhunt, it has its fun and its thrills in a B-movie way. It's a B-movie to its core and that is a little campy fun.