Blood Games

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!

I'd expected more of a slasher flick when I started watching Blood Games, but what I got instead was a well made action-thriller instead. All in all, not a bad trade off.

An all girls baseball team beats an all male redneck team and this leads to all hell breaking loose when members of the redneck team attack two of the girls. As revenge, the girls mow down one of the attackers with their bus and flee the scene of the crime. From there, the rednecks gang up trying to get revenge on the girls. No matter where the run, they'll find them.

Blood Games is a mashup of Deliverance and Friday the 13th with a little hint of The Final Terror thrown in. It moves at a decent pace, is very well shot, and has a handful of very exciting set pieces. If there's any major complaint, it's that it's nearly impossible to tell most of the characters apart on either side. There are only about 2 or 3 guys and girls who we learn anything about or spend much time with. It might just be a case of way too many characters complicating things.

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.

I really prefer the Aussie name for this movie: Baseball Bimbos in Hillbilly Hell. It is an apt description. A traveling women's baseball team that dresses like Hooter's girls take on a bunch of drunken hillbillies and whip their ass. Did they not think they would take retribution? Things only get started when Roy (Gregory Scott Cummins) and a buddy try to rape two of the girls and kill the manager. Things are only going to get uglier. Roy and his buddy grab rifles and start shooting and Roy gets killed. His daddy (Luke Shay) puts a bounty on the girls - $1000 each DEAD. Now, the games begin.

Let's get the T&A out of the way right now. The actresses were cast, not for their acting ability, but for their appearance in the shower after the game, and for the time they get their clothes torn off in rape attempts.

After the bus gets on the wrong road, they team sets out on foot. three stay back to fight while the rest move on. Big mistake. The others return, but the losses on both sides are stacking up. The girls actually are in the lead, but they don't know it.

You know who's going to win, but it was fun watching.