BLOODLUST - AI COLORIZED - Schlock Horror Movie - Starring Robert Reed & Wilton Graff

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Bloodlust! is a 1961 American horror thriller film written, directed and produced by Ralph Brooke and starring Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Joan Lora, Eugene Persson, and Robert Reed. It is based on Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game." It was produced by Robert H. Bagley. Its plot follows four young adults who visit a tropical island only to become prey for a sadistic hunter. It was filmed in 1959 but not released until 1961.

Plot
Two couples - Betty and Johnny, and Jeanne and Pete - vacation at sea together. When the ship's captain passes out drunk, they decide to go to a nearby jungle island. As they depart, Capt. Tony awakens and calls out, warning them not to.

As they explore the island, Johnny falls into a pit. While pulling him out, the others look up to see Dr. Balleau and two servants. Balleau orders the servants to help get Johnny out.

That night at his house, Balleau tells them he moved to the island "after the war" to indulge his passion for hunting. The couples want to leave, but Balleau says they cannot because wild animals prowl the jungle. Balleau makes his wife Sandra show Betty and Jeanne to the guestroom, while his servant Jondor escorts Johnny and Pete to their room.

Lovers Sandra and houseguest Dean Gerard later discuss Dean's latest plan for their escape. Meanwhile, Johnny and Pete go to Betty and Jeanne's room. The four decide to poke about the house. Sandra and Dean stop Betty and Johnny, taking them back to the guestroom. Jeanne and Pete find a tunnel. They go in and discover a vat of bubbling acid. They are horrified to find a woman's body floating in an aquarium. Jeanne and Pete go back to the guestroom to tell the others what they have seen.

Dean tells them his escape plan: he and Sandra will slip out of the house, steal a boat, go to the mainland and come back with help. As they sneak through the front gate, Balleau, toting a spear, follows.

Two days later, no one has seen Balleau or heard from Sandra and Dean. While hiding, Betty and Johnny discover a secret door. Through it they find Balleau and his "trophies"- the mounted bodies of people he has hunted, Sandra and Dean among them. Balleau used to be a sniper during the war. At first, he detested sniping but then began to enjoy it, and soon the enjoyment "turned into a lust - a lust for blood!"

As Balleau tells both couples that he will hunt Johnny and Pete, Jondor comes in dragging Capt. Tony. Balleau adds Tony to the hunt for failing to bring sufficient inmates from the "penal island." Balleau will hunt only the three men. He will carry a crossbow and only three arrows, one for each man.

Jondor locks the girls in the guestroom. To make things more "sporting", he tosses Tony a pistol and says they will find ammunition in the "Tree of Death." There, they find just one bullet. Tony runs off with it, leaving Johnny and Pete to fend for themselves. When Tony attempts to shoot Balleau, the gun does not fire. Balleau, who has removed the firing pin, kills Tony.

After escaping from the guestroom, Betty and Jeanne enter the secret tunnel. They go into the room with a vat of acid looking for weapons when a servant comes in. He and Betty tussle. Betty, the daughter of a judo expert, throws the servant into the acid, where he dissolves and dies.

The girls head into the jungle. While hunting the men, Jondor falls into a leech-filled pond. Balleau leaves him to drown. Betty and Jeanne find Johnny and Pete. They head for Balleau's house, planning to use his rifles against him. After finding rifles but no ammunition, they are defenseless.

Balleau finds the couples hiding in his trophy room. Holding them at gunpoint, he poses them in the tableau they will be in after dying. Jondor then bursts in, covered with leeches. Jondor grabs Balleau and impales him on a row of spikes, killing him.

Cast
Wilton Graff as Dr. Albert Balleau
June Kenney as Betty Scott (credited as June Kenny)
Walter Brooke as Dean Gerard
Robert Reed as Johnny Randall
Eugene Persson as Pete Garwood (credited as Gene Persson)
Joan Lora as Jeanne Perry
Troy Patterson as Capt. Tony
Lilyan Chauvin as Sandra Balleau
Bobby Hall as Jondor
Bill Coontz as insane man in the jungle and servant
Harry Wilson as a trophy (uncredited)