Tanya Rosenberg, the director of this flick only made one movie. Blood Games, and it surely shows that she is a girl. It's some kind of revenge on a revenge. let me explain. The girls in this, for me exploitation, are in a baseball team. They play against some rednecks and the rednecks loose. So they have to pay the coach but they don't. The coach goes out for the money and get's killed while the rednecks are raping some of the baseball girls. The girls take their revenge by killing on of the opponents. But they are now also out on revenge to kill the girls. As I said, the director was a woman too so you can see were it's going. Being made in 1990 it's a bit low on gore or even blood but here the girls do deliver the stuff. They all look sexy, eighties style!, and some of them even go naked. There are some nice killings shown in ultra slow motion and of course the language used by the rednecks is laughable. Some of the actors never appeared in another flick afterwards and for some it was their only flick but Laura Albert for example, the leader of the baseball girls made it into blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean, Wanted or Batman Begins. Ken Carpenter, the main lead of the rednecks became the camera cenobite in Hellraiser 3. Sure, you can file it under horror but I see it more as a exploitation revenge due the cheap effects used but still, it's watchable and predictable, but only available on rental VHS. If it was made years earlier it could have become a classic in the genre...
... View MoreJust got done watching this. I read the description and it seemed like it was a "most dangerous game" type storyline in the sense of "Surviving The Game" and "Hard Target". Of course, the difference between this film and those two is that there is no Van Damme, no John Woo style action sequences, nor is there Ice-T, Rutger Hauer and big name actors in a low budget movie. Just beautiful women and a bunch of rednecks. Anyway, the storyline is that this baseball team of scorchingly hot women beating the team of rednecks in their neck of the woods. The main guy on the team and his buddy want a peace of action and try to rape two women on the opposing team but end up being saved by their manager, only to be stabbed. Since the main guy of the team got killed by being rammed by a bus, his father wants his friends to take out the women. Reminded me more of "Surviving The Game" than "Hard Target" since it mostly took place in the woods and that the women were doing everything they can to survive. I watched this on Comcast On Demand, and figured that this would've been the only chance I would have to watch it. I enjoyed it, but I know it was far from the greatest I've ever seen. Of course, the acting was bad and the budget was really low, but still, it was an enjoyable bad movie. Watch it some way you can. You'd be surprised.
... View MoreThere are a handful of elements indicating from beforehand already that "Blood Games" will become a pretty bad but nevertheless hugely enjoyable action/sleazy time-waster The alternative title, which apparently only got used in Australia, reveals the whole set-up: "Baseball bimbos in Hillbilly Hell". Correct me if I'm wrong but little insignificant cult movie titles don't get to sound more promising than this. The whole premise is just as simplistic yet effective as that! Unleash a team of indescribably beautiful female baseball babes into the woods and send a bunch of drunken, testosterone-overdrive rednecks – complete with bullets and crossbows – after them for a bit of chasing, raping and killing fun. Moreover, the director of this obscure piece of junk was also a woman, so be prepared for heavy and obtrusive feminist overtones and cheesy heroine speeches. Just by looking at the plot synopsis, it's a guaranteed fact already that, somewhere at some point in the movie, one of the lead actresses is bound to speech the words: "I'm sick and tired of being pushed around by male chauvinist pigs! Let's stand up for ourselves and fight back!" Admittedly it takes far too long before the film properly kicks into gear and the first half is extremely tedious, but you easily tend to forgive all the shortcomings, as it's more than obvious that this is an ultra low-budgeted amateur production that merely relies on spirited performances and playful teasing rather than originality and spectacular stunts. The film opens with the almost integrally shown baseball game between the babes and the rednecks. A crazy and depraved ex war veteran hired the girls as a present for his porker son, but rednecks clearly can't deal with losing that well. Two of the girls accidentally run over the son with a bus whilst running away from an attempted rape, and before they realize what's going on, they find themselves chased by a whole posse of armed yokels! "Blood Games" really isn't anything special or original, but it's amusing stuff with a handful of exciting moments. The girls are exceptionally beautiful; each and every single one of them, but it's not exactly surprising that none of them ever starred in anything else before or after this film. They're merely sportive types and beauty queens, but not suitable to do any proper acting work. The death sequences are quite alright, and there's a plausible balance of losses on each side. One final but important little argument to convince knowledgeable horror/cult fanatics to watch "Blood Games" is that it stars George "Buck" Flower as one of the hillbillies. He's even the one who got to play the voyeur in the obligatory shower sequence! Go Buck!
... View MoreThis is a 90's b horror flick with 70's drive-in sensibilities. Although I'm sure most of you are familiar with this movie since it so permeates our culture, I'll go over the basics for the few Amazon customers who haven't heard of this Cinematic Masterwork. Back in the 90's before crystal meth, simple country folk had to go to great lengths to entertain themselves. One of their favorite ways to pass the time was to play baseball against roving bands of barnstorming all girls' baseball teams. Thus do Babe and the Ball Girls enter the modern zeitgeist. Babe and her team, managed by her father, are a kick-butt squad of baseball hotties. I don't know if any of the girls are actual baseball players but they were certainly among the hottest aerobics instructors at the mall at the time this film was cast. There isn't a single scene that doesn't feature finely toned young women wearing short shorts, tight jeans or mini-skirts. But lest you think it's all about the T&A, the women were all written with finely defined personalities. For example, they don't just feature blondes in the movie, but blonds with both short AND long hair. Same with the brunettes. While there are several brunettes with long hair the filmmakers go to great length to distinguish between them. One has blue eyes, one has brown eyes, and one has eyebrows you could knit an Irish sweater with. The girls beat the tar out of the rednecks in a game that borders on felonious assault and then retire to their showers while their manager tries to collect the prize money. The guy who brought the team to town, in order to celebrate his 30-year-old son Roy's birthday, is a hard case. He's angry that Roy and company lost to a bunch of girls, and he shore isn't going to pay those girls for humiliating his son (and by extension himself) This leads to a confrontation which I won't spoil for you but which, a gun, a knife, a baseball bat and a toilet later, finds the girls hot footing out of town on the team bus with the drunken in-bred villagers in hot pursuit, armed with all manner of guns, axes and even a crossbow. What follows is very reminiscent of Stallone's first Rambo, if you were to substitute a busload of leggy models for John Rambo and a pack of drunken hillbillies for Brian Dennehy/state police. The girls use their courage and wits in a battle for survival as they try to reach the nearest civilized town before the boozed up, slavering rednecks catch them. It's a lot of fun watching the ladies turn the tables on their attackers, although there are some very close calls and one is never exactly sure how it will all turn out. One word of honest warning. There is a pointless and brutal rape scene about 3/4 through the movie. It's pointless because we all know what is going to happen to these women if the bad guys catch them. We don't need to see it. I don't like rape scenes and they aren't necessary here. This one is typically ugly and nasty and its graphic explicitness really dispels the sense of b movie fun that builds up during the earlier scenes. Having said that, if you are the type of person who isn't bothered by such things or if you can fast forward past it, and if you liked "A League of Their Own" but felt that Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell didn't provide enough cheap sex and in-bred humor, not to mention violence, then Blood Games will probably hit a home run for you.
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