Movie

Fatal Games

1984 · 88 min

A grubby, javelin-wielding campus slasher that plods through locker rooms and gymnasiums toward a lurid, oddly topical reveal.

Tagline: There can only be one winner in this contest. Their mistake was to even compete!
Overview: The young athletes of Falcon Academy are training hard to earn their place in the nationals. But when these burgeoning sports stars start disappearing one after the other, Dr. Jordine and his team - who’ve started plying their athletes with new and untested performance-enhancing drugs - are baffled.
How it feels: Dark, tense, campy and cynical. Measured and easy to follow.
About: Obsession, ambition, betrayal, identity
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
ambition
betrayal
identity
death
Places: school
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild