Blood Games (film)
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| Directed by | Tanya Rosenberg |
| Produced by | Yakov Bentsvi |
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| Story by | Jim Makichuk |
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| Music by | W. Gregory Turner |
| Cinematography | Sam Gart |
| Edited by | Rick Mitchell |
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Release dates | 1989 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Blood Games is a 1989 slasher film directed by Tanya Rosenberg, which holds the surprise that a film like this was directed by a woman.[1] The film stars Laura Albert and concerns the plight of a stranded all-girl baseball team.[2][3]
Plot
After 'Babe & The Ball Girls', a team of female softball players, trounces the local team, their travel bus breaks down in the woods. Attempting to hike to safety, they end up getting lost and the group is set upon by disgruntled fans of the losing team. They are beaten, raped and some murdered. They desperately fight back with baseball bats, guns and bows & arrows.
Cast
- Laura Albert as Babe
- Ross Hagen as Midnight
- Ernest Wall as Vern
- Julie Hall as Stoney
- Luke Shay as Mino Collins
- Gregory Cummings as Roy Collins
- Shelley Abblett as Donna
- Don Dowe as Holt
- Rhyve Sawyer as Wanda
- Paula Manga as Louise
- Sabrina Hills as Connie
- Randi Randolph as Ingrid
- Sonjia Redd as Shorty
- Lisa Zambrano as Mickey
- Doc Willis as Ronnie
Reception
In discussing the chick flicks of the horror genre, author Philip Green wrote that Blood Games is "also the most visually erotic of the movies in this genre",[1] and Variety gave a positive review,[2] Michael Weldon wrote the film suffers from having too many slow motion scenes, but declared it was "not as bad as it could have been".[3]
References
- 1 2 Green, Philip (1998). Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 171, 240. ISBN 1558491201. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- 1 2 Lor (1994). Variety TV REV 1991-92, review March 18 1991, 'Blood Games' 17. march 18, 1991: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0824037960. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- 1 2 Weldon, Michael (1996). "'review 'Blood Games'". The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film. Macmillan. p. 64. ISBN 0312131496. Retrieved 5 January 2016.