Jeux de massacre

Group of teenagers partying inside a college after the last day of final exams, fall prey to a killer. It appears to be a mental patient with history of violence and murder that has just recently escaped and raped a young woman. The first half of this film is intense & exciting and very entertaining as well. However, the second half gets more absurd with every passing minute however.

Rated R; Graphic Violence and Profanity.

The bottom line of this movie is that it's a horror movie, not a great one, not a terrible one.

I watch these kinds of movies with my family and friends, so that balances my opinion a little bit. A lot of the scary parts scared me, but not all of them. The people I watched it with were scared by all the parts, however.

The acting was average and the story was average, but without the plot twists it would have been predictable. Because of the plot twists, it was worth it to rent and watch this movie -- I also gave this movie 7 stars because of it.

Of course, that doesn't mean it was worth buying it -- it apparently was made for TV (in Germany, though, which is different from here in the U.S.) and I think that affects the quality of the movie so it's really only worth one good watching.

I've been a horror/thriller/mystery fan my whole life, and I enjoyed this movie very much. On the DVD the director mentioned that he thinks of the film as a "teen giallo", rather than just another slasher film, which I thought was a good way to put it. Anyway, I did not have high expectations, but after watching the film, I realized I had enjoyed it. It satisfied the following criteria for me: 1) The body count was high, 2) the murders are mostly on camera and bloody, but not overly gory or over-the-top gimmicky murders; the weapon of choice is a nasty looking pair of scissors 3) sympathetic characters die, along with the unlikable ones 4) I couldn't guess who the killer was for sure -- the movie plays with suspicions very well, and is tricky, but doesn't cheat 5) the story was complex enough to keep my interst through-out 6) All the actresses were (to me anyway!) very attractive --but real, not typical slasher-film bimbos. This is a German-made film and some people won't like that it is dubbed. Me, I always liked dubbed films! You couldn't be a fan of a lot of foreign horror and NOT like dubbed films! So, I enjoyed it enough to track down a copy of the DVD to own.

A good slasher movie, made in Germany, with a good young cast of anonymous people, this movie is a threat for the fan of the genre. A few of the stylish murder scene are very well made and very effective in catching the eye of the spectator (and new enough to hold the attention even of the more smaliziate viewers). After all, a movie to belong to every genre fan video shelf.

Above-average German import slasher that is much better than most of the American slashers that have flooded the screens in the past years. Impressively executed and well acted - and unjustifiably underregarded by most of the viewers in this forum who seem to be prejudiced against German horror films. Why some people think this is slow or dull remains a mystery. If slow means that it does not meet the expectations of viewers used to a maniacal cutting style that tears the story and the characters out of proportion then this film is slow. Hoewever, me and my friends relished a good scare while watching the movie and were very satisfied with the pace and thrill. Be afraid. Be very afraid!!!