The Most Dangerous Game (1932) plus shorts, on 16mm
- Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026, 7:30pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
The Sprocket Society presents: a yacht blithely strays into cut-throat terror in this legendary pre-Code thriller, shown with spooky shorts — all on 16mm film!
A secret island owned by a rich, calculating psychopath with unholy kinks. An innocent man and woman thrown together by pure chance, stranded by “accident,” far beyond the help of any caring soul. Frayed wits and a woodsman’s knife pitted against the rich man’s cunning, his arsenal, and his pack of ravening hounds. Ah, the manhunt is on! The bloodlust…so sweet. So perfectly crafted. So inconsequential.
Joel McRae, Fay Wray, and a gloriously villainous Leslie Banks star in a tightly wound thriller that’s as short and hard-hitting as a crossbow bolt.
A low budget studio throw-away, 94 years later it’s been copied countless times yet never bested. Co-helmed by the director of King Kong and shot on the same jungle sets, the tension and fog-choked visuals linger long after the credits roll.
All aboard: your berth awaits!
Presented with selected short subjects.
“The filmmakers deliver terrific set pieces and exotic atmosphere, resulting in one of the most lavish and best-looking B-movies ever made, with wonderfully lurid pre-Code flourishes: gruesome violence, sadism, and sexual perversity.” Sean Axmaker, Video Librarian
“There isn’t an ounce of fat and no line is thrown away. Films like this really aren’t made anymore, and it’s a breath of fresh air, even after 90 years.” Dan Roberts, We Are Cult