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.

Balleau makes his wife Sandra show Betty and Jeanne to the guestroom, while his servant Jondor escorts Johnny and Pete to their room.

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.

To make things more "sporting", he tosses Tony a pistol and says they will find ammunition in the "Tree of Death."

is an uncredited adaptation of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game", first published in Collier's magazine in 1924.

was filmed in 1959 at Screencraft Studios in Hollywood by Cinegraf Productions, but it was not released by Crown International Pictures until 13 September 1961, when it premiered in San Diego, California, on a double bill with The Devil's Hand.

[3][4][5] Lilyann Chauvin's first name is misspelled "Lylyan" on both American and Mexican posters and lobby cards for the film.

In a review of its co-feature, The Devil's Hand, film critic Margaret Harford wrote just one succinct paragraph about Bloodlust!

: "Wilton Graff, another veteran actor turned to villainy, plays a mad scientist in the companion feature.

and that star Graff "doesn't bring much conviction to the killer doctor part," while "the four young people ... emerge as one-dimensional actors."

In summary, the reviewer said, "... this seems to let emotion-mad humans go on all out on a killing spree, and while the adventure-action audiences will find what's happening relatively engrossing, the discriminating won't be able to contain their bored feelings.

as "a wretched misuse of the Richard Connell story" and called the Dr. Baleau character a "dismal pervert pursuing teenagers whose bodies he stores in glass tanks.

could be mistaken for the similarly-titled Blood Lust, one of multiple English language titles of the 1977 West German film Moskito der Schänder (literally, Mosquito the Rapist).

Both films carried R-ratings in the USA, which required people under age 17 to be accompanied by a parent or an adult guardian.

was sold to TV in October 1963, about two years after its theatrical release, by Westhamtpon Features, a division of Desilu.

[13] More recently, it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 on 3 September 1994, in an episode which featured the first appearance of character Pearl Forrester as well as violin playing by Maria Bamford.

On 9 January 2009 it was featured on The Schlocky Horror Picture Show and on 8 October 2010 was shown in "The Screaming Skull" episode of Cinemassacre's Monster Madness.

BAC Films distributed a DVD of the movie in France in 2006 and Elstree Entertainment released Bloodlust!