Games

It's a shame this is not easily available on DVD. It was a really cool thriller, well plotted, well acted.

Stylish photography, very well acted and very well written and directed thriller that will keep you guessing until the end. Katherine Ross and James Caan as the bored kinky NY couple are outstanding in one of their early roles. Made in 1967 this film was way ahead of it's time with it's themes. If you like offbeat mysteries "Games" is a game you will want to play! Hard to find on tape, not on DVD and rarely on TV. Too bad because this film is like one of those lost cinematic gems. Hopefully a DVD distributer will release in a (hopefully)widescreen. Recommend this one highly.

Crafty little thriller about a wealthy, bored young couple (James Caan and Katharine Ross) who resort to playing kinky games for kicks. The games turn deadly though when mysterious stranger Simone Signoret insinuates herself into their lives. After a rather slow start, Games soon segues into an exciting, serpentine mystery that seems way ahead of its time for 1967. Although modern audiences have become too adept at sniffing out clues and predicting twist-endings, this film is still very effective at keeping its audience guessing. Rarely shown on tv, but if you do have the opportunity to see it...do!

Curtis Harrington, a director as interesting as he is unknown who did his first work on the B series, tackles here a project with more budget and more pretensions that lets you see and makes you hang out but that does not go much further and is too predictable .

Reminiscent of movies like Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) or Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944), the great asset of this psychological thriller is the presence and great acting on of Simón Signoret (who was in 1955 film), in addition to the beautiful photography and the adequate recreation of a morbid and somewhat perverse atmosphere that as the plot film progresses is becoming more oppressive.

A clever, well-acted thriller with enough plot twists to leave you reeling, and an ending you will not believe. From a dull beginning to an exhaustingly clever ending, it will hold you spellbound, confused, engrossed and tense. Should be re-released, but not re-made.