![]() It’s almost preposterously loaded with threat and grimness and is probably ripe for some thematic reassessment, being one of the darkest iterations of the well-known story despite a somehow fantastically bleak but hopeful ending. The Woman Hunt, which really only slightly edges into any sort of Blaxploitation, is almost every other kind of exploitation you can think. TNT is a martial arts expert which comes in handy when she incurs the wrath of drug kingpin Sid (Metcalfe again, here resembling Julian Assange) as she gets closer to the truth. There she runs into a variety of people, some friendly like Joe, some convinced she is dangerous and some fascinated by her, like the ambitious Charlie (Stan Shaw). TNT Jackson follows the titular character played by Jeanne Bell as she heads out to Hong Kong to find out what has become of her brother. Now Tony is marked for death by his friend Silas and has no choice but to set the women free and lead them through the jungle to safety, with Spyros and his cronies on their tail. But Tony’s heart isn’t really in the kidnap game any more and he asks Spyros if he can get out. The three men that Magda charges with the task, Tony (John Ashley), Karp (Ken Metcalfe) and Silas (Sid Haig), find suitable women and bring them to the island. ![]() Spyros is an extremely wealthy psychopath who has his head of security Magda finding beautiful women to attend against their will a party on his jungle estate for his rich mates, after which Spyros wants to hunt the poor women to their deaths. The Woman Hunt is another variation on The Most Dangerous Game. Santiago, and come from Roger Corman’s New World Pictures production house. The link here is that both are set in Asia, directed by two prominent Filipino filmmakers, Eddie Romero and Cirio H. A double release for two relatively obscure entries in the Blaxploitation movement, this set gives us The Woman Hunt from 19’s TNT Jackson.
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