Tidy little thriller whose modest aims aren't at all reflected in its hyperbolic ad copy. Far from some proto-Predator hack and slash, this is another spin on The Most Dangerous Game, with a crew of almost-human ETs mounting a very civilized big game hunt to rural Montana. The only problem, of course, is that we're the game. The Hunters get as much characterization as the cast of stock 70s humans and while they're a nasty bunch, the authors draw the two groups closer and closer together as the line between prey and predators blurs.
The moral? We're them, they're us.
2/4
Playboy Press, 1979
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