Blood Games

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Blood Games

I was not expecting much from this film as its premise alone sounds like it has the potential to be a really bad film. Despite this, Blood Games turned out to be one of the most enjoyable stupid movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. By no means is this a "good" film by conventional standards, but rather this is Best-of-the-Worst material. This is the kind of thing you put on when you're with your friends who also enjoy stupid, low-budget, late-80s, action schlock. There are so many great, hilarious moments in this film and it has all the hallmarks of what makes films like these so enjoyable: nudity for the sake of it, car chases, guns, crossbows, a wooded location, bludgeoning, shooting, technical errors, questionable acting, etc. Reading the description will be enough to inform you about whether or not this is a film you should watch, but if you enjoy really stupid, Best of the Worst-tier action movies, look no further.

An okay hicksploitation movie about a girls softball team being hunted by rednecks. It's both trashy and not trashy enough. Nothing stands out really, but you could do way worse. The main problem is that you don't care about any of the girls, the kills are very basic, and the villains are interchangeable. A solid meh all around.

A female softball team gets terrorized by a rival male team who are upset they didn't win and a chase ensues. Blood Games is a simple movie with simple pleasures. You won't come away remembering any vibrant character arcs or awards worthy performances, but it's a memorable enough journey into depravity with a nice girl power message. It does get into icky rape/revenge territory at times, but it usually pulls the plug before it gets too intense.

A group of softball players are attacked by the angry male members of the team they just beat and, when things escalate to include murder, they have to make a run for it and survive in the woods. Blood Games wasn't a film I'd even heard about until Vinegar Syndrome put it out on Blu-Ray, but it's a film I'm glad is getting a new lease on life. It takes a tried and true exploitation film premise and runs with it, adding a few surprises along the way and some interesting camerawork. Even more surprising is that this was directed by a woman, Tanya Rosenberg. There's a welcome focus on female friendships in this that's nice and refreshing.

This movie starts out as a female baseball versus men in hicksville, USA. These backwoods men don't take kindly to losing the baseball game to the sexy woman and attack one of the girls before their team bus can get them out of town. Things escalate rapidly and the killing begins. As ultra low budget films goes, this film is average. Given the attractive female leads and their flight and fight for freedom, through the woods, this film is keeper for my film library. Particularly, since films like this disappear, rarely to be seen again. Surely, someone will come up with a B-movie cable channel in my market, someday.

I gave it a 6 out of 10 IMDb rating because the action was continuous and the kill scenes were choreographed better than what is in most T&A action films. There wasn't a single male lead with any redeeming features so it was easy to cheer for the girls baseball team to come up with one more big win for their dead Gipper. It's a redneck Hillbilly non stop chase through the forest and waterfalls and who will come out on top in this game of death? Ladies, start your engines. Vroooom! Vroooooooom! Vrooooooooooom!

"Don't let those knockers hypnotize you." "Blood Games" opens strong and never lets up. The plot is extremely simple. First it's the babes against the beer swilling rednecks in an anything goes, grab assing, baseball game. This is immediately followed by a shower scene that compares favorably with the best "women in prison" films. Next comes a nice assortment of violence, including death by baseball bat, knife, crushed by a bus, gun shot, hanging, cross bow, and that old stand by, kicked down a grain elevator. This hunted in the woods classic has moments of backwoods humor, nice photography, some nifty stunt work, acceptable character development, and acting that ranges from professional (Gregory Scott Collins), to not so good (pick any babe). Nevertheless, "Blood Games" delivers exactly what it promises and that is why it is a great exploitation film, and highly recommended of it's type. - MERK