The popular Amazon Prime movie The Hunt is one of the most controversial mainstream movies of recent memory. Indeed, Craig Zobel's movie about twelve strangers waking up in a strange outpost, only to discover they are human prey, has been polarizing the public since the trailer debuted. The politically-charged movie was originally set to open last August but was delayed due to the scourge of mass shootings in America.
Now, The Hunt sets its sights on a release this Friday the 13th. Sounds about right, doesn't it? Well, for those who dig The Hunt, here are 10 additional human-hunting-human movies to check out when you get a chance.
10 Series 7: The Contenders (2001)
Series 7 not only skewers the culture of violence in America but the film also squarely aims at the trend of reality TV as well. Although few people seem to know about it, the movie hit the mark!
The comedic mockumentary is framed around a Survivor-like reality TV show, in which the host gives its contestants a loaded gun. The task? Six contenders must hunt each other to death in order to achieve fortune and fame. The movie lambastes the measures people will take in order to achieve a modicum of fame.
9 Fortress (1985)
Truth be told, the 1982 Aussie film Turkey Shoot could just as easily make this list. As it is, however, we tip the cap to the 1985 Australian movie Fortress in its stead. Check out both if you haven't already!
When a schoolteacher and her class of young students are suddenly accosted by a band of armed criminals, they do whatever they can to escape into the Australian outback. However, the baddies pursue the woman and children across the countryside, hunting them down one by one until no shred of evidence is left behind.
8 Targets (1968)
Based on the true story of Charles Whitman, the marksman who sniped several students on the University of Texas campus in 1966, Targets also features Boris Karloff in one of his last great performances.
Karloff plays to type as an aging horror film star making the promotional rounds at a local Texas drive-in theater. Along the way, the actor stumbles across a psychotic Vietnam vet who climbs to a perch above the UT campus and begins shooting students to death, one by one. As life imitates art, Karloff's character is forced to save the day.
7 Hard Target (1993)
The great Chinese action director John Woo teamed up with Mr. Muscles from Brussels, JCVD, in the enthralling 1993 human-hunting thriller Hard Target. Thankfully, nothing was lost in translation!
In New Orleans, Natasha (Yancy Butler) hires a grizzled stranger named Chance (Van Damme) to help find her missing father. When Chance hits the streets to investigate and learns Natasha's father has been murdered, he uncovers a sordid organization that offers people the opportunity to hunt fellow humans.
6 The Naked Prey (1965)
In a tale of frontier territorialism, Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey also explores the exploits of African colonialism. In other words, here's a thriller that actually has something to say!
When a safari leader, pair of elephant hunters, and their assorted crew set out to explore the South African wild, they come across a threatening spate of natives. When the tourists fail to give the natives what they ask for, a deadly hunting game ensues, in which the natives hunt each interloper, one by one. The lone survivor is stripped naked and sent running into the wild without weaponry to fend for himself amid the widespread hunt.
5 The Hunger Games (2012)
What began as a silly YA novel series blossomed into a mega-moneymaking movie franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. Still, true fans know The Hunger Games is just an inferior redo of Battle Royale!
Set in a dystopic future under a totalitarian regime, humanity is divided into 12 sections. Each year, two citizens from each section are chosen at random to partake in the Hunger Games, a gladiatorial spectator-sport televised across the land. As the colorful characters fight to the death, Katniss makes a play to save her little sister.
4 The Running Man (1987)
The Hunger Games also borrows heavily from the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger flick The Running Man, a movie that popularizes human-hunting as a macabre TV gameshow.
Set in the future (2019, now the past), a man named Ben (Arnie) wrongly accused and framed for murder is given a shot at redemption by participating in a sadistic TV gameshow. Ben must successfully navigate a deadly gauntlet where is execution becomes the primary objective. If he makes it out alive, he'll be forgiven. If not, DOA!
3 Surviving The Game (1994)
Director Ernest Dickerson collects a hell of a wild bunch for his rich-men-hunt-humans escapade in Surviving The Game. We're talking Gary Busey, Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, and more!
On the brink of suicide, Jack (Ice-T) finds salvation in an unlikely place when a charity organizer offers him a chance to earn decent pay as a servant for a Rocky Mountain hunting party. When Jack accepts, he soon learns the party is comprised of wealthy businessmen with a hankering for hunting human beings. Sick stuff!
2 Battle Royale (2000)
An all-out war of every man and woman for themselves takes place in Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, the hyper-violent and hugely entertaining Japanese import!
Under a strict future government regime, Japan orders every ninth grader in the country to participate in the Battle Royale act. Said act stipulates that the students must kill each other by whatever grisly means necessary in order for a chance to be victorious. If you stay alive, you win. If you die, you lose!
1 The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Every single film on this list owes a debt of inspirational gratitude to The Most Dangerous Game, the blueprint-laying people-hunting-humans thriller released way back in 1932.
The plot is simple. A mad hunter orchestrates a shipwreck near an island he resides on. When the passengers disembark, the sick psycho begins to hunt each survivor, one by one, until his bloodlust is sated. Joel McCrea stars as Bob, the horrifying hunter in question, who does whatever necessary to collect human trophies.
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