Every time my wife leaves town, the house is dead silent. But in Death Game, as soon as George’s wife leaves town β on his 40th birthday, no less β two hotties knock on the door, looking for an address they can’t seem to find. George (Seymour Cassel, whose voice is obviously, horribly dubbed for some reason) lets them in, and they’re quite impressed by his digs: “Hey, that bathroom of yours is far-out!”
Seconds later, Jackson (Sondra Locke) and Donna (Colleen Camp) are stripped naked in his Jacuzzi bath, and approach him for a threesome. George protests, but they grab his crotch and, literally, the waka-waka disco music begins. ‘Tis a great night, but in the morning, a spent George is peeved they won’t get out of his house.
They have no intentions of going. In fact, they tie him up and “hold court,” pledging to kill him at the end of the weekend. Jackson goes all nom-nom-nom on his groceries like a brain-damaged pig (“You have the manners of an alley cat!” he screams), while Donna plays the piano horribly. Both fuck with his wife’s makeup so they look like they’re part of a troupe called Whore du Soleil, and cackle like the batshit-crazy loons they are. But, hey, Camp’s breasts.
This is Camp in her prime. She positively oozes sex, but the bland Locke oozes tapioca pudding. Death Game is all about punishing George for consuming two servings of underaged vagina, but the movie is ultimately pointless. However, with a bosom like Camp’s, who needs motive? The utter nonsense keeps you entertained, even when you want to throttle them. The final shot is a WTF howler. βRod Lott
I’m confused, Rod. Where exactly do you stand on the subject of Colleen Camp’s boobs?
I first saw this back in 1980 when I got home early from grade school and flipped on our local pay cable channel. Sat there and watched slack-jawed as the insanity unspooled before my 13-year-old eyes. I always reference this, the early FRIDAY THE 13th flicks and Joe Sarno’s LAURA’S TOYS as the stuff I saw on cable that really sent me scurrying for the trash heap once I got a video store membership.