An elderly man was attacked and dragged by a lion in a South African park in a terrifying scene caught on video.

In a clip of the disturbing attack, the male lion calmly paces a grassy enclosure as Mike Hodge, the British owner of Makarele Predator Centre, walks several feet behind him, according to The Sun.

But suddenly, the carnivorous beast turns around and charges at Hodge, who tries to run away.

Hodge reaches the enclosure door and the lion pounces, grabbing the senior citizen – who’s desperately screaming “Help! Help!” — with his teeth and dragging him toward bushes.

The lion pulls Hodge’s limp body farther into the bushes and that’s when gunshots ring out, scaring the big cat.

A woman who is off camera cries in terror as a man shouts for someone to “get a rifle.”

The lion was killed after the attack.

Hodge sustained neck and jaw injuries and remains hospitalized, the Sun reported. In 2003, he moved with his wife Chrissy from the UK to South Africa to start the big cat safari.

Hodge was investigating an odor in the lion’s enclosure that was disturbing the big cat when he was attacked, according to a friend of his who did not wish to be named.

“Mike and one of his rangers were a little concerned about a smell in a compound that was upsetting one of the lions and had gone in through the gate to see what was causing it,” the friend explained. “It had put the lionon edge but when Mike went in the lion turned and came for him and he ran but couldn’t get through the gate quick enough and it had him.”

Chrissy and his daughters are with him as he recovers, according to the chum.

“He is no fool around lions and knows how to interact with them but clearly something went wrong” the friend said.

The predator center – which has more than a dozen big cats including white lions, cheetahs and Bengal tigers — is part of the Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi.