GOD: GAME OF DEATH: Subtle, It Ain't

GOD: GAME OF DEATH (Blu-ray)

2017 / 73 min

Rising Sun Media

Available at MovieZyng

Review by Josey, the Sudden Cat🙀

Finally...a game capable of causing more carnage than family Uno night.

Sort of an unholy cross between Jumanji and The Ring, GOD: Game of Death is a low budget horror film about a gaggle of obnoxious young adults who stumble across the titular board game. After being duped into giving it samples of their blood, they learn the horrifying rules: During the course of the game, they must kill 24 people. If too much time elapses between killings, one of them will die.

If you can slog through the godawful first ten minutes - where these kids drink, smoke, drop acid, jerk-off and bump uglies - GOD: Game of Death offers some sick thrills. Gleefully gory and occasionally funny, the film revels in exploding heads, vehicular homicide and shooting sprees, all depicted in vivid detail. Subtle, it ain’t, nor are the stylistic flourishes by directors Sebastian Landry & Laurence Baz Morais (which includes some bizarre animation and one jarring shift in aspect ratio).

"This never happens when we play Hungry Hungry Hippos: !"

However, the dialogue is awful and none of these characters are remotely interesting or likable. The body count is high and, considering the budget, the special effects are pretty impressive. But since we don’t really care who lives or dies, it’s kind of like watching someone else playing a violent video game. It’s also gotta be said that a few of the murder sequences (especially those involving innocent victims) border on cruel.

Still, if mayhem is your thing, GOD: Game of Death more-or-less delivers. Running a scant 73 minutes, the basic concept and nasty death scenes may be enough to keep the film from wearing out its welcome. Just don’t expect much beyond visceral thrills.

The BIKERIDERS Box Fight Now Available To Play on Fortnite

Focus Features and international gaming firm, Umi Games, announced today a new cross-platform video game inspired by the studio's soon-to-be-released film The Bikeriders, a true insider’s account of a 1960s Midwestern biker club, directed by Jeff Nichols.

The team-up creates a movie-inspired gaming experience for the free-to-play, box fight, cross-platform game, Fortnite. With the film’s release on June 21, the game partnership promotes the rough and tumble ways of the film’s lead characters, played by Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy.

The box fight style game is a 2v2 brawler, where characters inspired by the film’s Vandals motorcycle club fight for supremacy on the streets of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s. With an in-world biker bar, as well as surrounding neighborhood, based on the film’s sets, the world of The Bikeriders accurately expands into the Fortnite universe. The battle royale is free for all users by clicking the magnifying glass at the top of the game. Afterwards, users should search the island code “3327-7711-0118” into Fortnite and click on the “The Bikeriders Box Fight" thumbnail that comes up.*

Los Angeles-based marketing agency, BOND, pitched Focus Features on creating the gaming experience and has been working with Umi Games to design and build “The Bikeriders Box Fight” for the past few weeks. 

The Bikeriders will be in theaters exclusively starting on June 21. The film follows the rise and fall of a midwestern motorcycle club in the 1960’s and features a star studded cast including Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, and Norman Reedus. Get your tickets now: www.bikeridersmovie.com 

*This is an independently created Fortnite Creative experience and is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Epic Games, Inc.