Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Murder Game (2006)

A group of friends play a game where one is the killer and the others try to avoid being victims. The killer is chosen by drawing a card so it is not obvious to the others who has been designated the killer. The game ends either when the killer has murdered them all, or someone figures out the killers identity.

When their parents ban them from playing in the house, they decide to play in a self storage warehouse which doesn't have overnight guards. They sneak in, hide in a storage locker until the place closes, and then begin their game.

They stash their cell phones in a locker so anyone who is killed can not tip off the others as to the killers identity. Everyone is having fun until people start dying for real. There is a killer on the loose and they're locked in the building until the doors open at 6 am.

When the group proposed playing in the storage facility by saying, "...think of all the places to hide...", I thought uh, okay - corridors, stairways, what else? Turns out that not all the storage lockers at this place are locked, so that provides many more places to hide.

The teenagers all look like they are college aged, except perhaps the girl who plays Lucy who look like Corey Haim's little sister. The group sometimes plays it smart by deciding they need to stick together and hide quietly in a storage locker. But then they get dumb and decide to split up and leave the locker.

Overall this was far more enjoyable than I expected, especially for a low budget indie film. I was worried when I saw the preview, but it was a decent film. The ending wasn't the greatest, but otherwise not bad.

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