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Blood Games Movie Review
Blood Games is one of those exploitation horror flicks you discover by accident. I decided to give it a shot after reading a quick synopsis from the On Demand selections on cable. Usually I will give such forgotten films 20 minutes to ensnare me or I move on.
And the girls of Blood Games did just that. I'm surprised this film is from 1990 and that I've never heard of it. Try searching for it online and you won't be able to find much. What a shame.
It isn't original but it is entertaining. It's like "A League of their Own" meets "Deliverance." Rednecks, baseball playing gals in skimpy uniforms and most importantly--vengeance! If you're not going for The Oscar this is the way to do a cheap, lowbrow horror film.
The story starts out with an amateur all-girl baseball team playing some hicks out in a no-name town because the coach has a bet going with one of the locals. I would call it hustling, since these girls are good at playing with balls (pun intended). Needless to say, the girls win and the rednecks are not happy.
The redneck bet loser welches and while the coach goes to collect, the girls nearly end up getting raped by two guys who are destined to end up on disability for being stupid.
This film could have been "bad" on purpose in a good way, which would have been fine with me, but I have to say the film is better than you would think. For a nineties movie it feels like a seventies exploitation flick. It shows no shame in showing nudity and pointless violence. And there is the expected rape scene which justifies the girls vindicative retaliation.
These rednecks should have understood that the women of the nineties were no longer going to sit idly by and take their crap. This film, while being exploitative, also feels like a magnification of the need for women to press forward into male dominated territory. Hence, the baseball theme is appropriate--an all American male sport. The rednecks are exaggerations, of course, of male arrogance in general.
The irony of all exploitation films is that they address serious issues while providing lurid details. The producers may have been serious enough to be using the film as allegory or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Regardless, they don't fail to entertain and while Blood Games, which could have been better titled (h'bout "Redneck Blood Games"), is not fine art, the creators didn't commit the sin of being boring--and that's all I ask for from a cheap horror film.
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