# I will hunt the deadliest prey of all. Man. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271 "2004-03-14T20:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/1 "2004-03-14T20:26:46Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/2 "2004-03-14T20:33:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/3 "2004-03-14T21:45:21Z")
[Hard Target](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107076/) And [Predator](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/) Are two that come to mind. Jean-Claude Van Damme played lead roles in both movies, but he was fired from predator. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/4 "2004-03-14T22:26:18Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/5 "2004-03-14T22:29:43Z")
Heh, **The Simpsons** too. When Ranier Wolfcastle buys up the local YMCA, Lenny becomes first to be hunted. Run Lenny! ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/6 "2004-03-14T22:39:53Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Heh, **The Simpsons** too. When Ranier Wolfcastle buys up the local YMCA, Lenny becomes first to be hunted. Run Lenny! “It begins.” ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/7 "2004-03-15T00:31:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/8 "2004-03-15T01:18:50Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/9 "2004-03-15T01:33:49Z")
My favorite literary treatment was Sarban’s late-'40s short novel, [The Sound of His Horn](http://www.strangewords.com/archive/hishorn.html). Think of Dick Cheney in 100 years. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/10 "2004-03-15T18:16:08Z")
How could I forget [The Squire of Gothos!](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68696.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/11 "2004-03-15T19:23:57Z")
Don’t forget Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter and (to a lesser extent) DC’s Bane. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/12 "2004-03-15T19:40:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NotBob13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@NotBob13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotBob13)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/13 "2004-03-15T19:43:49Z")
_The Pest_ starring John Leguizamo. A light hearted look at hunting humans for sport. My favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/14 "2004-03-15T19:50:59Z")
[Savages](http://imdb.com/title/tt0072116/), 1974 tv movie starring Andy Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/15 "2004-03-15T19:53:30Z")
There was an episode of The Incredible Hulk that used the same storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/16 "2004-03-15T20:00:33Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/17 "2004-03-15T20:09:57Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/18 "2004-03-15T21:04:54Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/19 "2004-03-15T22:15:46Z")
The Legion of Super-Heroes story in Adventure Comics # 358 was a blatant rip-off of that story. ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271/20 "2004-03-15T22:23:51Z")
[The Island of Dr. Moreau](http://www.bartleby.com/1001/11.html)–1896. Better known for the half-man/half-beast idea, it also has a man-hunt. It was a movie too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-will-hunt-the-deadliest-prey-of-all-man/234271.md?page=2)