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      Deadly Games

      R 1982 1h 35m Horror List
      Reviews 8% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score A detective (Sam Groom), a magazine writer (Jo Ann Harris) and a film projectionist (Steve Railsback) hunt a slasher on the loose. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Above average horror flick featuring a great cast and some cleverly set up scare scenes. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Deadly Games was always a movie that I figured was a hidden gem in the 80s slasher crazy. Hell it had Dick Butkus in it. Sadly you don't get to see him get killed. You do get to see him play a little football though. Deadly Games is a great disappointment because it's so incredibly boring & has a terrible ending. That seems to be a trend in horror movies Ive been watching lately. There's just a lot of needless filler here. There's a extended seen where a few of the main character watch a movie in an empty movie house & we watch along w/ them. @ least they were drinking beer..maybe I should have been drinking beer...& then it's followed up w/ a music montage where the song is just awful. I just felt I could have felt better use of my time then watching this flix..like sleeping Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Promising film that unfortunately suffers from bad 80s cliches and lacks 80s horror/slasher movie cliches (if that makes sense). A woman gets murdered by a buy with a black ski mask (and in the midst of the quarrel, there is one of the greatest lines ever: "You wanna rape me? It's okay, I'll make you feel real good"). Her death results in the sister coming to town to find out what happened. Of course, the sister, as well as the rest of the community, seems completely unphased by the death. The dialogue tries to be too quirky, the deaths are nothing special and the finale is just... odd. And there's a hilarious montage in the film with an extreme 80s ballad that seems to play on loop several times, it's just an endless montage. I'm really not sure what I watched, but it's certainly a very "different" 80s horror film. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Aside from the eclecticism of the cast and a really cool board game (created for the film, alas) shown throughout, there's nothing of value here. Rated: 1/4 Mar 20, 2022 Full Review Kat Hughes THN An identity confused slice of yesteryear horror, Deadly Games starts with good intentions but fails to follow-through on its initial promise. Rated: 2/5 Sep 9, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A detective (Sam Groom), a magazine writer (Jo Ann Harris) and a film projectionist (Steve Railsback) hunt a slasher on the loose.
      Director
      Scott Mansfield
      Producer
      Robert H. Becker
      Screenwriter
      Scott Mansfield
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 35m
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