I have read the story this movie is based on and I have seen other portrayals of the film and this is an average take on the tale. Unfortunately, it is not a bad film, but it is a very underdeveloped one as it goes by with so little understanding of the characters and such. One just has to take each new character with a grain of salt as not much is really revealed and the hunt is on.
The story starts out interestingly enough as a hunter and a group of elderly gentlemen aboard a ship discuss things before the ship hits something and begins to sink. The only one left alive, the hunter makes it to an island where he finds a castle belonging to the strange Count Zarloff who is hospitable at first, but it soon becomes clear he has dangerous intentions. A woman and another man also are the Count's guests, the female feels there is something wrong and tries to convey this to the hunter while the other guest is very oblivious due to his constant drinking. Soon the Count reveals to the hunter that he too is a hunter and that the game he hunts is quite different and most dangerous!
I thought the cast did good, I just wish I knew a bit more about them. The film also is just so short that one never really can get into the thing before it is over. Faye Wray is in it and she is good and adds something to the plot as the original story did not contain a character such as her. It was mainly just one guy trying to outwit the person hunting him.
So, it had its moments and the effects during the boat crash were pretty good, but I found myself incapable of fully becoming invested in what happened to the characters. Granted, they probably stretched the premise out as far as it could go as the story it is based on is rather short.
The story starts out interestingly enough as a hunter and a group of elderly gentlemen aboard a ship discuss things before the ship hits something and begins to sink. The only one left alive, the hunter makes it to an island where he finds a castle belonging to the strange Count Zarloff who is hospitable at first, but it soon becomes clear he has dangerous intentions. A woman and another man also are the Count's guests, the female feels there is something wrong and tries to convey this to the hunter while the other guest is very oblivious due to his constant drinking. Soon the Count reveals to the hunter that he too is a hunter and that the game he hunts is quite different and most dangerous!
I thought the cast did good, I just wish I knew a bit more about them. The film also is just so short that one never really can get into the thing before it is over. Faye Wray is in it and she is good and adds something to the plot as the original story did not contain a character such as her. It was mainly just one guy trying to outwit the person hunting him.
So, it had its moments and the effects during the boat crash were pretty good, but I found myself incapable of fully becoming invested in what happened to the characters. Granted, they probably stretched the premise out as far as it could go as the story it is based on is rather short.