Game of Death

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Game of Death

2020

1h 13m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Under the spell of an evil board game, seven teenage friends must kill a certain amount of people to prevent their own heads from exploding.

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Critics Consensus

Game of Death's over-the-top violence and gore will be too much for some, but genre fans up for some bloody thrills will find it well worth playing.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

07/14/2020

.5/4

A killing spree ensues, though 'spree' makes it sounds a lot more fun than Game of Death ever really gets.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

07/08/2020

The film is sure to develop a cult following among viewers in the same general age range as its protagonists. But don't expect their parents to approve.

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Katie Rife

AV Club

10/27/2017

Game Of Death's playful tone does land some absurdist laughs, but attempts to reconcile the film's ironic distance from its pervasive bloodshed and the serious moral conflict produced by the game's rules land with a splat.

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

01/14/2022

Game of Death has got reach-out-and-touch-it viscera to spare. You can practically feel the intestines squeak between your fingers.

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Alix Turner

Ready Steady Cut

02/27/2021

3.5/5

Seven friends play a mysterious game, and with a name like "Game of Death", what do they expect? I didn't expect much, but it was bright, fun, creative, and splattered with blood.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

02/05/2021

2/5

The overall unlikability of the cast made a majority of the narrative frustrating and unenjoyable, with its frenetic editing compounding the irritating experience.

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Kashgar A

@AllFunAndGames Jul 1

Five minutes in and I was rooting for the entire cast to die, their characters are so uniformly unlikeable. The acting’s pretty crap, as is the script, the camera work and in fact the entire premise of what I am euphemistically calling a film. The music score is even worse. Still, made me laugh in parts.

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Lorde M.

@Lord_Fears Feb 27

If John Carpenter & Quentin Tarantino got together and made a movie this would be it🍷🤘🏾

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VITALII H

@freakynickison Feb 1

I haven’t watched something this bad in a long while. Don’t know where even to begin, absolutely terrible. Do not even attempt to watch it, you’ll be very disappointed. I mean everything: production, writing, sound, direction, horrible. I mean who’s idea was it? It’s so bad that it makes you wanna laugh and then you expect it to be a joke but it’s not, which is just…. tf I just watched

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Ian H

@Howellsey 01/30/2025

Pretty standard slasher/gore fest with a cast of unlikeable teens. Liked the last twenty minutes best

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Alex C

@RT82897175 09/13/2023

I really like this, great gore and interesting premise. I think the acting was good, unsure it why it has such a low score. I would recommend!

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12/13/2021

I like the idea of a board game of death kind of thing but this whole movie felt pretty generic and cheesy some of the time but I guess thats just me. I liked the part where the guys head explodes at the pool that made me laugh Lol

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Synopsis

Under the spell of an evil board game, seven teenage friends must kill a certain amount of people to prevent their own heads from exploding.

Director: Sébastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace
Producer: Mathias Bernard, Pierre-Alexandre Bouchard, Philip Kalin-Hajdu
Screenwriter: Edouard H. Bond, Sébastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace
Distributor: Cleopatra Entertainment
Production Co: Les Productions La Guérilla, Rockzeline, Blackpills
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 3, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 14, 2020
Runtime: 1h 13m