Cleopatra Entertainment, with sales and distribution
support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced back in February that
they had acquired the distribution rights to the director team of Laurence
“Baz” Morais-Legace and Sebastien Landry’s game-playing horror thriller, Game of
Death.
A theatrical rollout was all set … by now everyone knows
what happened with that, all the theatres closed down on Mar. 20 and so much
for the theatrical prospects of Game of Death.
A favorite on the festival circuit, including
showcase screenings as SXSW and Frightfest back in 2017, the film pulled in its
share of awards and some nice buzz … and then, for reasons that are not
entirely clear, disappeared.
Cleopatra Entertainment has new plans for Game of
Death, instead of coming to a multiplex near you, it
will be available on DVD on July 14. Maybe,
just maybe, Game of Death is
cursed by the very forces that rise up to create such chaos in the film itself
… it is certainly something to think about!
In any case, seven 20-somethings are bored out of
their minds one afternoon — hanging around the pool and doing drugs only takes
you so far. As luck would have it, they
find a board game — no, not a Ouija Board — that has the curious name of the “Game
of Death” in a stash of games.
So Ashley (Emelia Hellman — as Bethany in the Bellevue
television series) and her boyfriend, Matt (Thomas Vallieres — Midway,
My Mom's Darkest Secrets) get their friends to
give it a try.
Genre fans will recognize Ashley and her friends as
being members of the “victim’s pool,” but there is a twist. The game-players gather around, put a finger
on the “play” button, which looks a little like a cross between a plug socket
and a skull and — are you ready — the game is turned on everyone gets a big surprise,
their fingers are pricked and blood flows.
OUCH!!
A timer kicks in and players have so much time to
run up a body count or they die. One of
the little group says, hell no, the timer runs down to zero and his head
explodes!! Reset and the game on is
with six players! Kill, kill, kill … or
die, die, die, tough choice.
No comments:
Post a Comment