RyothChatty ridiculous rating

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

lost-in-limbo When fantasy becomes a nightmare. "Death Game" is a raunchy, dangerous and bizarre cocktail of a late 70s stark psychological thriller with an edgy exploitative edge and some convincing performances by Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp and Seymour Cassel. George Manning is a happily married and successful man who encounters two supposedly lost girls one night at his doorstep. Inviting them in from the pouring rain he accommodates them, but obviously this leads to more with the voluptuous girls having something else on mind. However George learns this fling is costly, as they begin to terrorise him. For most part it's all about the manipulative girls tormenting their victim psychically and mentally (which at beginning tell us that it's based on a true story), no real surprises other than for an ending that simply comes out of nowhere. It feels like stage play, as most of the interplay is mainly played out in the household between the three characters as it goes down a twisted path. It's cruel, at times intense and really driven by the ballistic, unhinged performances of Camp and especially Locke's disturbed turn. Sure their acting gets a tad annoying, but that's part of their characters. Cassel is perfect in the role as the desirable object. Director Peter S. Traynor's intrusive handling shows by the camera placement and the abrupt styling of the editing, although there's definitely an uneasy underlining crafted with many under-lit set-pieces. The brooding music however had some odd choices, like the constant loop of hearing "Good old dad" played. Fitting, but over-kill. Rudimentary, but interesting curiosity. "The party is over."

Chase_Witherspoon Slightly better than average thriller has a pair of lesbian tramps (Locke and Camp) begging off home-alone father (Cassel) for a phone call and a dry place to stop during a thunder-storm, becoming unwelcome house guests when they resort to sadistic games that taunt their host, threatening to implicate him for statutory rape and destroy his family.Quirky is the main adjective that comes to mind when describing this basement horror cheapie. Locke and Camp (who used body doubles for much of the nudity) make a frightening pair, while Cassel (who used a voice double) has little to do but lie on the floor bound and gagged, begging for his life while the two misfits trash his house. The film is essentially just the trio, with one brief and memorable exception from a delivery boy.Aside from the spa orgy, Cassel's ridiculous over-dubbing and the corny (but admittedly catchy) soundtrack, the film is also memorable for its outrageous conclusion. If you saw that coming, then you might be as twisted as these two ultra-vixens. A tense and violent mind warp, but worth a look if you're open-minded.

dmuel This is an atrocious movie. Two demented young women seduce and torture a middle aged man. There's not much to give away in regards to a plot or a "spoiler". I would only comment that the ending is nearly the most preposterous part of the flick. Much of the film involves Locke and Camp cackling obnoxiously, all the while grinning psychotically at the camera. Add to this a soundtrack that repeats again and again, including a vaudevillian song about "dear old dad" that suggests an incestuous quality the viewer never really sees. The music is annoying at first, then ends up subjecting the viewer to a torture worse than that depicted on the screen. The theme here is of youth run amok, understandable as a reaction to the '60s, but done with little imagination or style. Avoid it!

TonyDood This film should be put in a special category, "Movies that make you feel like you're on something." In this category would be Yellow Submarine, Eraserhead (or any Lynch film), Ken Russell's and Nic Roeg's and Jodorowsky's whole catalog, etc. It is a bad movie, no doubt about it, and incomprehensible how it got made, or why, but that just makes it more fascinating. Thrill to the sight of Eastwood's then-girlfriend giving a truly unhinged performance and wonder if she's really acting or not! Listen to Colleen camp alternately scream and laugh hysterically as she beats up a tied-up guy in a bed and ponder how she ever got another acting gig again! Thrill to the sound of one of the weirdest choices of theme song ever recorded! Stare in awe at what appears to have been a cinemascope movie squeezed onto your t.v., and contemplate how much more dizzying it would've looked on the big screen! Feel this movie melting in your brains, not in your hands, as it gets ever more insane, leading up to a climax so stupefyingly cheap and abrupt it could only be attached to this movie!Saw this as a kid on cable, watched it because it was rated R and promised nudity and sex. Got a *little* more than I bargained for, but wasn't displeased or even shocked (Fellini's Satyricon was on right before it--Lord, how I stayed out of a mental hospital is a miracle). If you like weird movies that simulate being on drugs this film is for you, at least if you have a taste for old, poorly done exploitation stuff.