Janne the Director’s Favorite Rare Movies Top 100 List #82: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
82. The Most Dangerous Game [DVD]
You know what’s great about the 1933 version of King Kong?
Yeah, everything. And Fay Wray in a blonde wig.
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This is the movie they shot at the same time as King Kong – Fay Wray in a blonde wig by day and Fay Wray in her dark hair by night.
Sure, some scenes (well, all the talking scenes) are boring and shot like they were forced to include them but the rest… the hunt through the jungle and the King Kong sets… are all fantastic. German expressionism galore.
The story about humans being hunted for fun has been remade a bunch of times and here is my Top 3 The Most Dangerous Game Remakes:
3. Surviving the Game (1994)
Ice-T is being hunted for fun by Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey and F. Murray Abraham.
2. Turkey Shoot (1982)
In the future Olivia Hussey and Steve Railsback is hunted for fun by people who have read Stephen King’s Running Man.
1. Hard Target (1993)
Yes, the one with Jean-Claude Van Damme in a mullet being hunted for fun by Lance Henriksen. The director’s cut of this is an amazing piece of slow motion art. I have friends that made the mistake of having a drinking game while watching this where they had to drink every time there was slow motion. They ran out of things to drink during the opening credits.
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