David Carradine and Simone Griffeth in Death Race 2000 (1975)

The Most Dangerous Hunt (Man Hunting terror movies - hunting humans for sport movies)

James Brolin, Rod Steiger, and Margot Kidder in The Amityville Horror (1979)

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in Repo Men (2010)

Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton in Red Dragon (2002)

"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue.

"On the Blue Water (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm)" by Ernest Hemingway (1936)"

Films about human hunting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hunting), where people are kidnapped so they can be hunted, often inspired by the 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game)" but also by the real-life story of serial killer Robert Hansen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen) who did the same thing in Alaska during the 80s. The tend to differ from chase films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chase_films) where the pursuit is usually unplanned and is often sparked by some random incident.

See also: There is clearly some crossover with Backwoods Horror / Rural Survival films (http://www.imdb.com/list/MUTisOps8S0/) but there the humans are usually opportunistically hunted, often not as sport but for... food or revenge or because of some unspecified sadistic bloodlust.

Further reading: http://www.popmatters.com/post/156072-the-10-greatest-human-hunting-films-of-all-time/ http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-best-movies-where-people-are-hunted-for-sport/ http://kotaku.com/5815424/if-youve-always-wanted-to-hunt-live-humans-heres-your-willing-prey

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Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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