Headgame

Headgame is one of those horror movies that falls into the sub genre I adore. Where you have a series of people who wake up and are forced to play a deadly game (Such as SAW, Cube, Circle and The Human Race)

Upon realising that's what this is I became rather excited. It tells the story of a group who wake up with camera's attached their foreheads. If they tamper with it they will get shocked, if they remove it the vial of acid set within will kill them.

They are told that only one can survive and that the exit will not open until there is only one survivor. So you know the drill, all hell breaks loose.

Trouble is I think the "Hell" occurs too fast and it's all rather uninventive. Then we have the finale which is multi-tiered and it's a real mixed bag.

You see I'm not sure if I like it, I think that because of the concept (Which is actually quite good) this really needs to become a franchise.

The likelihood of a Headgame 2 is pretty damn remote and that's a shame as this being a single standalone movie it simply isn't meeting its potential.

Headgame is a watchable effort for fans of the subgenre but is just above average compared to others.

The Good:

Very clever twists

Great concept

The Bad:

Don't know how I feel about the ending

Distinctly average for the most part

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Having a lense attached to your head comple with vial of acid will leave no scarring or marks of any sort

In a movie where everyone has a camera lens in their foreheads, we seldom, if ever, see any first-person footage. They lenses played virtually no role in the movie as far as showing what footage they were receiving.

For the majority of the film the action is seen through a fourth wall. It doesn't make sense.

I've gone through the "good reviews" about this film,and I'm going to assume that most (if not ALL) were written by someone who was involved with making this train wreck of ANOTHER "Let's Play a Game" horror movie. There isn't ONE character you care about...AT ALL! The sadistic people watching these people trapped (with cameras mounted to their foreheads...which is HILARIOUS by the way) are more fun to root for than the Human GoPro characters! If you want to kill an hour and a half,and have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE TO DO,then give it a watch. I HAVE seen worse movies than this...but not by much. But if you end up saying "Jeesh! I just wasted part of my life on this."...don't say I didn't warn you.

Toodles.

I don't think I've ever seen an exposition dump like in this movie. In the first minutes, we litterally have some guy saying to the audience "This is character A, he"s stong. This is character B, she's smart"...etc.

Clearly, the most scary thing in this movie was the acting. Beyond atrocious !

This movie looks like a (bad) student project. I couldn't tell you about the plot, as I couldn't give any sh** about it, and I couldn't go past the 1-hour mark.

Don't watch.

There is almost nothing to like in this movie. The set up and plot is something you have seen before, but this is probably the worst iteration of it I have ever come across. The concept of the cameras in their head could have /maybe/ been cool it 1) the makeup effects were any good. It didn't even look remotely like a camera lens, and it definitely didn't appear to actually be in their head, meerly pasted to it, and 2) if they had actually used that gimmick to steer the direction in a new direction. But they only show about two shots in the whole film that are supposedly from those cameras. If you're going to have a gimmick at least use it! Furthermore, when the camera is removed from the winner there should be a massive scar left from the giant hole that would have been made to insert the camera and yet none exists.

The script is contrived and offers nothing in the way of story or character development. It's the typical paint-by-numbers for movies like these. The acting is bland and basic. There arent even any good kills to keep this movie enjoyable or worth watching. I can forgive a lot of terrible things in a movie if they have some good, gory and entertaining kills. This movie has none of that. It fails at every level of filmmaking. First and foremost, it fails to be even the slightest bit entertaining. Not even worth a watch to waste time.

I guess the camera stayed in focus, so a star for that I guess.