After traveling the globe, Zaroff has elected to make this dangerous corner his home. For located in a chateau on this lush, jungle-infested rock is another hunter of even greater prowess the kind that is so adept he’s grown bored of hunting the ferocious man-eaters of the world. A master hunter is shipwrecked on an island in a dangerous sea, unaware that his misfortune is no accident. The narrative, springing from a short story of the same name by Richard Connell, is painfully simple. Schoedsack might argue was there all along: the need to hunt and dominate, even over your fellow man.
It’s a story that gets down to a primal instinct that filmmakers Merian C.
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Inspiring authors and filmmakers, playwrights and serial killers, The Most Dangerous Game has been remade, re-adapted, and reimagined a hundred times, from Stephen King’s The Running Man to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, and from goofy sci-fi gems like Predator to recent horror flicks Ready or Not and The Hunt. For nearly a century, Count Zaroff’s favorite game has been one of constant reinvention in the zeitgeist. Little can the three guests know, however, that the hounds’ cries trumpet each’s potential doom, and that this noise will still be ringing in our collective ears 87 years after the premiere of The Most Dangerous Game.ĭespite what some shortsighted, historically ignorant politicians and Fox News personalities might say, the concept of elites hunting the poor and disadvantaged for sport is nothing new. Does that noise emanate from what the host of the evening, dear Count Zaroff, alludes to as “The Most Dangerous Game” known to man? No, the count insists, it is merely the baying of his hounds. Yet even in this candlelit reverie, there is something amiss outside-a howl. Four people, three men and one lonely woman, are sharing cocktails by a grand piano. On a sleepy island in a desolate swath of the Pacific, the comforts of modernity remain strangely cold.
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