Line #18 Film/Bloodlust


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3	A group of teenagers (Creator/RobertReed, June Kenny[sic], Gene Persson, Joan Lora) vacationing in the tropics takes a boat out to a seemingly deserted island. They soon find, however, that the island is inhabited by a wealthy recluse (Wilton Graff) and his staff. While their host is initially hospitable, he quickly reveals his true purpose: to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt down and kill each of his visitors]], as he has done with everyone unlucky enough to set foot on his island.
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5	For tropes and specifics relating to the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please check the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E07Bloodlust episode recap]].
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8	!!This film contains the following tropes:
9	* ActionGirl: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]; Betty can flip an attacker effortlessly so long as there's a [[NoOSHACompliance conveniently uncovered vat of acid]] for him to land in, but she spends just as much time acting the DamselInDistress.
10	* TheAlcoholic: Tony, the kids' boat pilot, gets so drunk he passes out. So the kids decide to explore the island, which kicks off the plot. Also Dean, but he's more high-functioning than he lets on. Dean drinks but apparently he [[PlayingDrunk greatly exaggerates his intoxication]] to make himself seem inept while he is waiting for a chance to escape the island.
11	* ChekhovsSkill: Betty's judo training. She uses this to defeat one of the thugs who mistakenly thought she was defenseless.
12	* ColdSniper: Balleau's stint as a sniper not only desensitized him to killing, it inspired a lifelong interest in hunting people.
13	* TheDogBitesBack: Balleau's mute servant turns on him at the end for leaving him to drown in the quicksand.
14	* EvilAllAlong: Tony seems like a harmless drunk but it turns out he's been ferrying escaped convicts onto Balleau's island so he can hunt them, likely for years. His concern over the teens sailing off to the island isn't for their safety, but because it's on his head if outsiders find out what Balleau does there.
15	* EvilLaugh: One of Balleau's mooks gives an epic one after Betty's SuspiciouslySpecificDenial over a broken vase.
16	* FaceHeelTurn: DirtyCoward Tony acts like he wants to help the boys, but as soon as he gets both the gun and the only bullet, he abandons them. He even utters the StockPhrase, "SoLongSuckers"[[note]]'''Tom:''' Now that was really ''rude''.[[/note]]
17	* FauxAffablyEvil: Balleau. He might be AffablyEvil but he's an extreme SmugSnake.
18	* {{Gorn}}:
19	** The shot of Balleau impaled through his throat and wrists is quite shockingly graphic, especially for being shown on TV. Or it ''would'' be if the spikes coming out of Balleau lined up horizontally, [[SpecialEffectFailure as they did before he was impaled]].
20	** One of the mooks getting melted by acid was also pretty graphic and not seen much in films of the time.
21	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Balleau is impaled on the display rack he had purposed for the heroes.
22	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The film doesn't hide its inspiration, swiping quite a few elements in particular from the expanded 1932 film version (at the time, the most prominent and well-known version of the story).
23	* ILied: Balleau decides to kill Tony after sparing him. While he technically doesn't actually lie (he says he'll give it some consideration - for less than a second), it's dickish to make Tony think Balleau seriously intended letting him live.
24	* InstantLeechJustFallInWater: Happens to one of the teens and then to one of the henchmen. Oddly, they don't affix themselves to any exposed flesh, just to shirt-covered chest.
25	* MadeOfIron: Balleau's henchman survives being [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness abandoned in leech-infested quicksand]], and later shrugs off multiple point-blank gunshots when [[TheDogBitesBack killing Balleau]].
26	* NobleDemon: Balleau thinks of himself as this, which Johnny notes is just InsaneTrollLogic. Regardless, the gun Balleau gave his prey lacked a firing pin, so giving them an equal chance was bullshit anyway.
27	* NonActionGuy: Pete the Nerdy Nerd
28	* OneWordTitle
29	* PlayingDrunk: Dean feigns being a hopeless drunk to hide his affair with Balleau's lover, and to make him seem unfit to hunt.
30	* RecycledSoundtrack: Tony Restaino's "The Web" has been used in several others as well, perhaps most notable in ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'', another film [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E20TheUnearthly lampooned]] in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
31	* SissyVillain: Balleau is pretty prissy; he cultivates a fussy little goatee and spends a lot of time reclining in a chintzy smoking jacket (which Mike and the Bots waste no time poking fun at). But he's still an expert hunter and total lunatic.
32	* SociopathicSoldier: Balleau got over his aversion to killing while serving as a sniper in "the war".
33	* SoLongSuckers: Invoked verbatim by Tony when he abandons the boys in the jungle.
34	* TogetherInDeath: Balleau's adulterous wife and her lover end up [[{{Pun}} Stuffed Into the Cave]] together.
35	* VerbalTic: The characters don't seem to--...! You don't mean--...? Yes. They can't seem to complete sentences.
36	* WaxMuseumMorgue: Balleau does this to all his victims, whether hunted or just murdered. He even brags to future victims ''where'' they'll be mounted.
37	* YouHaveFailedMe: Happens to both Balleau's primary henchman and to Tony the boat pilot [[spoiler: who is paid by Balleau to bring him hunting victims]].

Context Film / Bloodlust