An obsessive big-game hunter lures a party of six, one of whom is a werewolf, to his high-tech mansion with the intention of bagging a lycanthrope for his collection.
This is a great silly little film with a wonderful idea - take the premise of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, mix it with Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and throw in a wacky werewolf twist to boot !! Michael Winder's entertaining script also has a goofy guess-the-monster break in the action, complete with a sinister voice-over by Dyall. Plus, it's a fantastic piece of casting to pit mannered, Adonis-physiqued, action-man blaxploitation star Lockhart as a Great Black Hunter against a troupe of sniffling luvvy British thesps like the mincing Chadbon - even if Lockhart is a bit of a psycho you can't help but want him to shoot them !! Diffring and Cushing distinguish themselves with excellent clipped performances and Amicus moguls Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky ensure the film's production values are high - Lockhart's mansion is a terrific sprawl of drawing-rooms, hallways, outhouses and several hectares of Berkshire pine forest. The werewolf itself is a bit of a let down - it's a big German Shepherd with some hair extensions - though it does make a terrific entrance looking down through a skylight in the scene where it kills Diffring. This is a fun film, with scares and scene-chewing aplenty.
This is a great silly little film with a wonderful idea - take the premise of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, mix it with Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and throw in a wacky werewolf twist to boot !! Michael Winder's entertaining script also has a goofy guess-the-monster break in the action, complete with a sinister voice-over by Dyall. Plus, it's a fantastic piece of casting to pit mannered, Adonis-physiqued, action-man blaxploitation star Lockhart as a Great Black Hunter against a troupe of sniffling luvvy British thesps like the mincing Chadbon - even if Lockhart is a bit of a psycho you can't help but want him to shoot them !! Diffring and Cushing distinguish themselves with excellent clipped performances and Amicus moguls Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky ensure the film's production values are high - Lockhart's mansion is a terrific sprawl of drawing-rooms, hallways, outhouses and several hectares of Berkshire pine forest. The werewolf itself is a bit of a let down - it's a big German Shepherd with some hair extensions - though it does make a terrific entrance looking down through a skylight in the scene where it kills Diffring. This is a fun film, with scares and scene-chewing aplenty.