Saturday, May 7, 2011

Death Game (1977)

3 / 5 Apr '10
Tagline: The object is to stay alive.
Directed by: Peter S. Traynor
Written by: Anthony Overman, Michael Ronald Ross
Actors include: Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel
Genre: Thriller
Length: 91 minutes
Banned: Nope




Review:
This is one unusual low budget exploitation flick. The story is about a married fellow who on his 40th birthday has two young attractive girls show up on his doorstep. They claim they can't find their way to a party and ask to use his phone and wait there. Oddly enough this friend never shows up and before he knows it, the two young girls are throwing themselves at him. Although he tries to do the good guy thing, he gives in and has one hell of an evening. When he wakes up though something is clearly wrong, the girls don't want to leave and they are acting like insane animals and such rather than innocent girls. When he asks them to leave he learns awful fast that these are some miserably nasty girls who wish to claim he raped them and that they were underage. It really gets more looped and insane after that including some really surreal make-up and much more. The thing is, the story isn't all that rewarding, it feels a bit unfinished. Although the girls were pretty great as psychos the fella wasn't much of an actor. Worst of all was the insipidly obnoxious theme song that they played over and over throughout the movie. The music guy should never have been allowed to work again after this film, it made it way dumber than it actually had to be. It's one of those films that you likely won't forget seeing and well if you want to see Sondra Locke naked and acting like a nutbar you'll get that too. Amusingly Sondra tried to sue Clint Eastwood for ruining her career later on but she did this before she was with him...

Availability:  on DVD

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