The movie is harrowing, tense, and beautifully shot. Jeremy Irvine is a strong lead and Michael Douglas’ villain is at times charming and contemptible. The movie changes a fair amount from Deathwatch but keeps the story’s spirit firmly intact. The book was previously adapted as Savages in 1974 with Andy Griffith as Madec. Now Ben tries frantically to find a way out of his predicament as Madec trails him and sabotages every attempt he makes to survive.īeyond the Reach is based on the young adult novel Deathwatch by Robb White. Madec doesn’t want to kill Ben if he doesn’t have to but he wants him to die of exposure. When Ben refuses Madec’s offer, the older man holds him at gunpoint and forces him to remove his clothing and walk off into the desert. In an attempt to keep himself and his business out of trouble, Madec offers Ben a sizeable sum of money to cover up the incident and pretend it never happened. Whilst on the hunt, Madec accidentally shoots and kills an old man. The hunter, Madec (Michael Douglas), is a rich trophy collector with no respect for anyone and an odious attitude. Beyond the Reach (2014)īen (Jeremy Irvine) is a tracker and a guide who gets an offer of $1000 a day to take a hunter out into the desert in search of bighorn sheep. The Most Dangerous Game is still a very well-shot movie and captures much of the chill of the original story so long as one gives it some slack for the age of cinema in which it was made. Also, Fay Wray could literally be removed from the movie without affecting anything but the dialogue. The film is only an hour long and still manages to stretch itself hopelessly thin, saving the hunt for the final twenty minutes. Leslie Banks is a more flamboyant forebear to Vincent Price here and the camera loves to zoom in on him while he’s mugging. Zaroff turns Bob loose in the woods with a knife and his wits and then sets out to kill him and put his head in his trophy room.īased on the short story of the same name by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game represents a symbolic if not the literal starting point for the humans hunting humans subgenre. The solution Zaroff has created to give himself a challenge is to hunt the most dangerous prey of all: mankind. Unfortunately for Bob, Zaroff is an avid hunter himself who has hunted all the greatest prey in the known world and grown bored of the lack of challenge. Luckily for Bob, the island is owned by a man named Zaroff (Leslie Banks) who maintains a palatial homestead there.

World-renowned hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McRea) is shipwrecked on a mysterious island. So in honor of the current glut of movies about men who hunt men here are ten more to fill your primal urge. Lately, with the recent release of The Purge: Election Year and Carnage Park as well as the upcoming release of Rob Zombie’s 31, the concept is back in vogue. The mass saturation of these kinds of films was in the late 70s through the early 90s but they’ve popped up almost since the advent of moving pictures. Movies about humans hunting human have never really been out of fashion.

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