Bloodlust! (1961)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Ralph Brooke

Writers:

Ralph Brooke (writer)
Richard Connell (story)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Maniac Hunts Humans In A Jungle Hell!

Plot:

A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Boat | Skeet Shooting | Public Domain | Skeleton

Cast

Wilton Graff	...	Dr. Albert Balleau
Robert Reed	...	Johnny Randall
June Kenney	...	Betty Scott
Joan Lora	...	Jeanne Perry
Eugene Persson	...	Pete Garwood (as Gene Persson)
Walter Brooke	...	Dean Gerrard
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Sandra Balleau
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bill Coontz	...	Insane man in woods
Bobby Hall	...	Jondor
Troy Patterson	...	Captain Tony
Harry Wilson	...	Trophy (uncredited)

Directed by
Ralph Brooke

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ralph Brooke		writer
Richard Connell		story "The Most Dangerous Game"

Produced by
Robert H. Bagley	....	executive producer
Ralph Brooke	....	producer

Cinematography by
Richard E. Cunha

Film Editing by
Harold V. McKenzie

Makeup Department
Jack Dusick	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Brianne Murphy	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Leonard J. Shapiro	....	assistant director

Art Department
Richard M. Rubin	....	property master

Sound Department
Philip Mitchell	....	sound mixer

Visual Effects by
Harold Banks	....	visual effects

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marjorie Corso	....	wardrobe supervisor

Music Department
Michael Terr	....	music supervisor (as Manuel Francisco)

Production Companies

• cinegrafik

Distributors

• Crown International Pictures (1961) (USA) (theatrical)
• Astral Films (1963) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Madacy Entertainment (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Madacy Entertainment (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Alpha Video Distributors (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (VHS)
• BCI Eclipse (2008) (USA) (DVD) (on "Drive-In Cult Classics Vol. 2")
• Bach Films (2009) (France) (DVD)
• Filmfax Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• PC Treasures (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (199?) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Ryder Sound Services  sound recording

Runtime:

68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Company:

cinegrafik

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Obvious male stand-in when Betty flips Balleau's henchman into the boiling water tank.

Quotes:

Johnny Randall: You mean you hunted those people down? Then killed them, and did *that* to them?
Dr. Albert Balleau: Exactly. I hunted them. And shall I tell you why? I'd been a scholar all my life. I was curator of a large museum. And the war began. I who had never killed anything in my life assigned to duty as a sniper - a sharpshooter - because of my steady hand and keen eyesight.
[chuckles]
Dr. Albert Balleau: It amuses me now that I found it distasteful at first. And as time went by I adjusted my new activity. For what had been an unpleasant duty became a pleasure then it developed into a passion and then into a lust. A lust for blood! A lust that has grown with the years! And one that I spend my entire life trying to satisfy.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Cell (2000)

Terrific Drive-In Fare

This film is an early 60s low budget teen exploitation film version of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. Wilton Graff gives his best Vincent Price imitation in the lead as the sinister Dr. Balleau who plans on hunting our teen heroes lead by Johnny Randall(played by Robert Reed). This one really goes for the shocks and has some rather startling sequences to make the audience of the era squeal in fright. Perfect fare for a Drive-In theater.