Bloody Games


 * WIP means UNFINISHED.

Bloody Games is a 2010 Patagonian action horror film directed by Tim Ryder and produced by Port Madryn-based Necrolab Entertainment. The film, which takes influences from Saw (2004) and Cube (1997), revolves around six people trapped in a twisted escape room controlled by a sinister game master, who puts the six through a series of murderous games where they are forced to inflict physical pain upon themselves to survive.

The film was released theatrically in Patagonia on March 19, 2010 and was met with mixed criticism, being praised for its use of torture methods and panned for its use of blackface to portray the actors. The film was banned in China for its graphic content and "tragic ending" in which the villain wins.

Plot
Snooty and abusive teacher Laura Ferguson wakes up in a dingy room strapped to a chair. A disembodied voice tells her that the chair is fitted with traps that she must disable with a key within one minute lest she be killed. Laura manages to use the key but the trap activates anyway. A blade protrudes from the back of the chair and stabs her in the anus, killing her as she faints and the voice laughs evilly.

Six more people wake up in a similar room. These are: Ryan Hoffman, a former PFP officer fired for killing a Mozambican man, abusive parents Jonathan and Carla Reeves, bitcoin scammer Joel Whitmore and russophile Tim Chandler. The disembodied voice, revealed to be a game master who at first appears to be white, tells them that they are going to be put through a series of murderous games in which they will have to inflict physical pain upon others or themselves in exchange for their survival. Chandler suspects that the games are rigged.

The first game involves Whitmore having to gouge his eyes to disable a mask trap, containing needles that stab the victim in its face once the trap is activated. Whitmore succeeds, but the mask trap closes in on his face anyway. Whitmore dies while Carla and Jonathan watch on in horror. The two are taken to a second trap, wherein Carla has to use a key to deactivate a Brazen Bull trap where Jonathan is trapped. The key does nothing as the games are all rigged, just as Chandler suspected, and the trap activates killing Jonathan.

Whitmore is then trapped with a heretic's fork which he needs to deactivate with a key dipped in sulfuric acid. He succeeds, but the fork kills him. Chandler, horrified to see his suspicion confirmed, ends up being put through a game in which Hoffman has to stop Chandler from being lowered into a Judas cradle. Chandler dies as he screams his hatred for the Game Master.

With Hoffman and Carla the last ones standing, Carla ends up being tortured herself. Carla is crucified to a breaking wheel and whether or not Hoffman deactivates the wheel, Carla will have all her bones broken horribly, which happens to her in the end. Carla dies, and Hoffman becomes the last remaining contestant. He is knocked unconscious and wakes up crucified to a table, with the nails conducting electricity.

The Game Master takes off his mask, which unveils his identity as the Mozambican man's brother, a master of disguise who formerly pretended to design Soviet torture devices while working as a spy for Patagonia's Central Intelligence Directorate during the Cold War. Putting his mask back on, he activates the trap, which shocks Hoffman with 50,000 volts of electricity. The energy surge causes his body to explode and his head to fly off with such force that his brain is crushed beyond repair. The Game Master cackles loudly.

In a post-credits scene, the Mozambican man is revealed to be comatose. He wakes up after three years and his brother surprises him with the decapitated head of Hoffman, with a still screaming expression and eyes rolled into his skull. The Mozambican man smirks slightly.

Cast

 * Tim Sporer as Ryan Hoffman, a fired Patagonian Federal Police officer who along with six of his accomplices are subject to traps called "games". Hoffman dies when he is electrocuted with such force that his body save for his head explodes.
 * Peter Bokwe as Carlo Vieira, a Mozambican man who avenges his brother by subjecting Hoffman and his accomplices to a series of "games". Vieira wears a rubber mask of a white man as well as gloves and a hooded sweatshirt.
 * Jacob Arcenaux as Tim Chandler/Sergei Pushkin, a russophile with a lifestyle matching Soviet-era life. Chandler dies after being lowered into a Judas cradle.
 * Melanie Scarborough as Carla Reeves, an abusive mother to their 12-year-old son Brandon whom she encouraged into suicide. She dies from breaking all her bones irreparably after being put through a breaking wheel.