I caught part of the modern movie classic Surviving The Game on TV the other day. Staring Gary Busey and Ice-T, it is a terrifying look into, oh, I dunno, hunting people.
I know that I have seen this stupid plot line many times before, how many other movies and television shows can you think of that use it?
I believe it was Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game” that started the whole thing off.
It was an RKO film in 1932, starring Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, and Fay Wray.
Hard Target
And
Predator
Are two that come to mind. Jean-Claude Van Damme played lead roles in both movies, but he was fired from predator.
It was even used in episodes of
Get Smart (Harold Gould guest starring) and dare I say it…
Gilligan’s Island (Rex or Rhodes Reason guest starring).
Heh, The Simpsons too. When Ranier Wolfcastle buys up the local YMCA, Lenny becomes first to be hunted. Run Lenny!
“It begins.”
The idea has been used many many times in pulp stories and adventure books. In an episode of the 1966 GREEN HORNET series, it was dusted off and used again. Yeah, tracking Bruce Lee in the woods at night… I`ll stay in the lodge thanks.
Odd little flick called Bloodlust surfaced sometime during the sixties, I believe… basically a retelling of “The Most Dangerous Game”, except that instead of one professional big game hunter named Rainsford, we have a gaggle of teenagers lured to the island by the evil hunter so he can hunt 'em down one at a time with his evil crossbow, then practice his taxidermy on them.
Hero was played by Robert Reed, who would later go on to be Dad on The Brady Bunch. Wonder if he listed this one on his resume?
My favorite literary treatment was Sarban’s late-'40s short novel, The Sound of His Horn.
Think of Dick Cheney in 100 years.
How could I forget The Squire of Gothos!
Trelane hunts Kirk (can’t remember if there’s a shirt ripping moment for the ladies 
) in a “fox hunt” to decide the fate of the crew.
Don’t forget Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter and (to a lesser extent) DC’s Bane.
Don’t know the name of it, but a movie was made of the one I have read…
The hunters were going to hunt a young couple but killed him first I think. They were being watched though by somone who wanted to hunt them! It is the first time I remember reading of somone shredding their cigg-butts so as not to be traceable. I also remember it as being rather sexually violent, but I was about ten when I read it so it may not have been that extreme.
I thought Peter Fonda was in the film, but it seems he wasn’t.
The Pest starring John Leguizamo.
A light hearted look at hunting humans for sport. My favorite.
Savages, 1974 tv movie starring Andy Griffith.
There was an episode of The Incredible Hulk that used the same storyline.
Someone already mentioned Predator, but what about another Schwarzenegger “classic” - The Running Man? Governor vs. Governor! TO THE DEATH! 
Then there’s also “Rambo” Stallone’s First Blood, and the recent The Hunted with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro. (Although those weren’t necessarily “death hunts” to begin with.)
Anyhoo…
What about the Japanese film Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru), based on the novel by Koshun Takami? (With Chiaki Kuriyama - “Go Go Yubari” from Kill Bill, Vol. 1. Love that Go Go!)
Anyhoo…
The Naked Prey with Cornell Wilde, based on a true story about a mountain man who escaped from the Blackfoot, re-set in Africa. The inital torture scene where the natives cover one of their captives in clay and slow-roast him on a spit is pretty nasty.
The Legion of Super-Heroes story in Adventure Comics # 358 was a blatant rip-off of that story.
The Island of Dr. Moreau–1896. Better known for the half-man/half-beast idea, it also has a man-hunt. It was a movie too.