O Jogo das Sete Mortes

i saw this flick at a festival in santa monica. i don't know if it was just me, but i loved this film... i laughed my ass off. i'd love to get this on dvd... can anyone tell me if it's even out yet? many great lines in this movie. every character had me laughing... if you like scary movie or enjoy goofy teen flicks you'll appreciated this film.

But that's the most I can say: "Not horribly done." Standard premise, pick them off one by one slasher within a reality show of annoying young adults. Very little blood. Mediocre acting but that may also be a product of the low budget and lack of script. Not a total wreck, but not very good either.

This one is based around a reality show where six young people have been placed in a remote farmhouse in order to not get on very well. The winner is the last one standing, except that that may be a literal fact in this case, as before long, members of the crew and contestants begin showing up dead, the victims of a crazed maniac.

Reality Check is a very cheap film. It's a slasher movie but it doesn't even make the grade in this most formulaic and basic of horror sub-genres. The killings are staged with a modicum of suspense but the victims are dispatched in highly tediously ungraphic ways. It's a stun gun and hypodermic needle, as opposed to excessive gory mayhem. So what you are left with is the melodrama surrounding the group of reality chumps. To be fair to the actors, they give it a good shot but there is only so much they can achieve working from a script this lacking and this, coupled with the half-hearted horror, results in a film that is decidedly underwhelming.

Obviously you can pretty much tell from the start that this will be awful. The biggest problem I had with the execution of the idea was the way in which the story was presented. The idea seemed OK in theory, but the overall end result missed that idea.

I think this would have worked better if they had incorporated less of the Reality TV Style scenes and shots, and instead either gone with a documentary or straight up fly on the wall type treatment. With the TV shots added, it came off like a spoof or at the very least confused about how much comedy to incorporate.

The acting, at times was laughably terrible from this group of relatively unknowns at the time due to character writing that seemed disjointed and awkward. The pacing seemed to actually be the one big bright spot of the bunch, though the "kills" left a lot to be desired by today's standards. A lot of the time it felt like there was a lack of a payoff, or anticlimactic ending to the buildups that the director was working for.

Overall I wouldn't recommend this. I got it for a dollar and I still feel like I got ripped off but that's more because of the time I invested watching Reality Kills. Skip this one unless you're into movies that are of the "So Bad they're Good" variety and even then you'll still probably end up disappointed.

Four young women – Serendipity, Mei-Ling, Charlolette and Isabel, and three young men – Gar, Swope and Crash, totally strangers to each other, are sent to an isolated house with the crew members of a reality show leaded by the Afro-American Brock to stay living together for three months without any means of communication with the exterior, and in the end, the winner will get a prize of US$ 100,000.00. When the SM cameraman Eugene is found dead in a barn, the group becomes hysterical, since nobody knows who is trustful. "Reality Check" is a bad movie in all aspects. The characters are not well developed and their behaviors are completely illogical. When the serial killer is disclosed, there is no explanation of the motives for such behavior other than being a deranged person. The performances are hysterical and boring. The edition is horrible and the image is too much dark, needing the change of the bright of the TV. The story has no originality, and it is another one about a sort of "Big Brother" show. Watching this movie is indeed a pure waste of time. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "O Jogo das Sete Mortes" ("The Game of the Seven Deaths")