Fatal Games
- 1984
- 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
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Athletes at a sports academy are getting systematically killed by a mysterious javelin thrower.Athletes at a sports academy are getting systematically killed by a mysterious javelin thrower.Athletes at a sports academy are getting systematically killed by a mysterious javelin thrower.
Spice Williams-Crosby
- Coach Drew
- (as Marcelyn Ann Williams)
Ed Call
- Mr. Burger
- (as Edward Call)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe film is often cited as being very similar to Graduation Day (1981), due to a killer in a track suit killing teenage athletes with athletic equipment (most notably a javelin), nearly identical opening credit montages of athletic events, and the killer crossing out victims in a group photo. It is also similar in that actress Linnea Quigley appears in both films as a replacement for an actress who refused to appear nude on screen.
- GoofsA student is stabbed underwater. It's doubtful it would be possible to throw a javelin with that strength and speed underwater to kill somebody with efficiency as shown in the movie.
- Alternate versionsThere is an english-language version (with dutch subtitles) released in the Netherlands under the title Olympic Nightmare which is totally uncut and runs 83mins, instead of the usual 81mins.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cinema Snob: Fatal Games (2014)
- SoundtracksTake It All the Way
Written by Shuki Levy and Deborah Shelton
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Take some characters that look like they came out of the 'Fame' TV series, add a script ripped off from countless 'Friday the 13th' and 'Halloween' clones, throw in a Dario Argento type music theme from 'Demons 2' and you have the ideal makings of a grade B straight to video or in this case, DVD film.
I too, bought this from a pound shop in the UK and that's about what it's worth. No more, no less. For 90 minutes of brainless fun, it's OK and quite enjoyable if you don't expect too much. And also can amuse oneself by spotting all the trappings of the 1980's, leg warmers, BIG hair and slang, i.e. 'making out, you're out of your gourd,'etc.
No use trying to detect who the mystery killer is as the rhyme and reason for it is so far off the logic scale as to be unreadable! Even for slasher films, this one is mega-dumb and just shoe-horned into the plot in the final moments with a handy discarded newspaper with a convenient, 'this explains everything,' revelation.
For lovers of kitsch horror movies only.
I too, bought this from a pound shop in the UK and that's about what it's worth. No more, no less. For 90 minutes of brainless fun, it's OK and quite enjoyable if you don't expect too much. And also can amuse oneself by spotting all the trappings of the 1980's, leg warmers, BIG hair and slang, i.e. 'making out, you're out of your gourd,'etc.
No use trying to detect who the mystery killer is as the rhyme and reason for it is so far off the logic scale as to be unreadable! Even for slasher films, this one is mega-dumb and just shoe-horned into the plot in the final moments with a handy discarded newspaper with a convenient, 'this explains everything,' revelation.
For lovers of kitsch horror movies only.
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- Also known as
- The Killing Touch
- Filming locations
- University High School - 11800 Texas Avenue, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA(Falcon Academy Of Athletics / exterior)
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