Bloodlust! (1961)
2/10
Dull and listless--and the plot is a giant ripoff---but at least you can see Mr. Brady in action!
24 February 2007
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.
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