Grinding brutality. Accidental homework. Things that don’t make any goddamn sense: The 1/3 rule. The players. The game. The weapons. Kids reading maps. The unexpected flaws of a modern exploitation film. Daring to pick at the plot. Killing your girlfriend. Tabboos: Slaughtering children. A bit on Battle Royale 2. Kids have sex. Realistic children in film. Fact check on the bomb tests. Aversion to mutants. An appeal for mutants. The 70s Rottentomatoes factor. One-Uping the original. Pushing past tasteful. The Last Mimzy incident. Treading new ground.
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Battle Royale: 2:59 | The Hills Have Eyes: 23:21
Also referenced: Fallout, Kill Bill, Orgazmo, Intacto, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Speed Racer, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Delovley, Metal Gear Solid, Megan Man, Friday the 13th, Vanishing Point, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Feast, Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto, John Waters (A Dirty Shame), Magnum PI, Starsky and Hutch, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Big Trouble in Little China, Peter Jackson (Dead Alive), Devil’s Rejects, The Descent, Silence of the Lambs, Joy Ride, Lost, X-Men, Eyes Wide Shut, High Tension, The Last Mimzy, Dog Soldiers, Cabin Fever, Halloween, Tank Girl, Schindler’s List
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Battle Royale
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Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Writer: Kenta Fukasaku
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary Battle Royale act.
The Hills Have Eyes
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Director: Alexandre Aja
Writer: Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur
Starring: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emily de Ravin
A suburban American family is being stalked by a group of psychotic people who live in the desert, far away from civilization.
