Fatal Games
- 1984
- 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
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A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas.A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas.A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas.
Spice Williams-Crosby
- Coach Drew
- (as Marcelyn Ann Williams)
Ed Call
- Mr. Burger
- (as Edward Call)
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- TriviaThe film is often cited as being very similar to Graduation Day (1981), due to a killer in a track suit killing teenage athletes with athletic equipment (most notably a javelin), nearly identical opening credit montages of athletic events, and the killer crossing out victims in a group photo. It is also similar in that actress Linnea Quigley appears in both films as a replacement for an actress who refused to appear nude on screen.
- GoofsThe camera's shadow (notably the 400' MAG) is visible on the ground, filming the POV shot of the killer stalking the pool.
- Alternate versionsThere is an english-language version (with dutch subtitles) released in the Netherlands under the title Olympic Nightmare which is totally uncut and runs 83mins, instead of the usual 81mins.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cinema Snob: Fatal Games (2014)
- SoundtracksTake It All the Way
Written by Shuki Levy and Deborah Shelton
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OK for what it is...
"Fatal Games" is an OK little slasher that feels more like a teen TV series with a lot of added nudity and some violence. It is far better than the usual offerings of the genre and does actually resemble a competently made movie. They even had the right ideas considering the approach to the killer and the way he is shown. It even manages to make you guess who is the kill up till the very end. Intro song is very cool! Sadly, a quality copy of the movie is very hard to come by so I had to watch a very low quality copy from Internet Archive which made the experience significantly less enjoyable. In the end, "Fatal Games" doesn't reach it's full potential and no matter how OK it is, it's not good and distinctive enough to be a fully interesting watch and by the end you will feel boredom kicking in, unless you are very new into horror movies, but let's face it, if you dug up a lesser known slasher movie from 1984., you probably aren't. 5.5/10 from me! Only for the veterans who can appreciate the effort and the potential. Everybody else can listen to the intro song and call it a day...
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- Also known as
- The Killing Touch
- Filming locations
- University High School - 11800 Texas Avenue, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA(Falcon Academy Of Athletics / exterior)
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