Death Game (1977)
May 1, 1977Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Sondra Locke
Agatha Jackson
Colleen Camp
Donna
Seymour Cassel
George Manning
Beth Brickell
Karen Manning
Michael Kalmansohn
Deliveryboy
Ruth Warshawsky
Mrs. Grossman
Peter S. Traynor
Director / Producer
David Worth
George Manning
Anthony Overman
Screenplay
Michael Ronald Ross
Screenplay
Leslie Moulton
Second Assistant Director
Eric Edel
Set Dresser
Dan Martin
Set Dresser
Sissy Spacek
Set Dresser
Linda Spheeris
Assistant Art Director
Lowell Cannon
Property Master
Michael Nevler
Set Dresser
Karine Haugseth
Set Dresser
Chris Christenberry
Assistant Director
Wes MacAphee
Assistant Director
Bill Paxton
Assistant Art Director
Todd Joy
Wardrobe Master
Aaron St. John
Wardrobe Master
Ken Swerilas
Location Scout
Janet Stearns
Set Dresser
Turner Browne
Boom Operator
Hal Watkins
Sound Mixer
Beth Wasserman
Assistant Property Master
Gaylene Sagona
Location Scout
Wayne Wahrman
Sound Effects Editor
Leslie Shatz
Sound
Roger Creed
Stunts
Cyndi Swan
Stunts
Carline Davis-Dyer
Script Supervisor
James F. Liles
Special Effects
Paula Crist
Stunts
Peter Jamison
Production Design
David Worth
Editor / Director of Photography
Tino Zacchia
Makeup Artist
Larry Spiegel
Producer
Jack Fisk
Production Design
John L. Moorehead
Associate Producer
William Duffy
Executive Producer
Mel Bergman
Executive Producer
Jimmie Haskell
Original Music Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 1, 1977
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Content RatingR
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Death Game (also known as The Seducers) is a 1977 American psychological thriller film directed by Peter S. Traynor, and starring Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, and Colleen Camp. The film follows an affluent San Francisco businessman who finds himself at the mercy of two violent, deranged women whom he unwittingly allows into his home during a rainstorm.
Traynor, a former California real-estate financier, entered a career in filmmaking as a producer in the early 1970s, funding his projects through local investors. He purchased the script for Death Game to serve as his directorial debut. The film was shot primarily inside a large Los Angeles home with a small budget in approximately two weeks during 1974 with a projected release the following summer. Production was allegedly plagued with on-set disputes among the first-time director and the cast, and eventually halted due to a federal investigation into Traynor's financing methods. The theatrical release of Death Game was delayed nearly two years.
Critical reception for Death Game has been mixed among critics. While some read into the plot and violence as social commentary, others rejected it as meaningless exploitation. Death Game made unremarkable box office returns during its limited theatrical run, but found a greater audience with its home media releases in the years that followed. The film has been remade twice, first a Spanish production (1980) directed by Manuel Esteba and the second; reimagined and retitled: Knock Knock (2015), directed by Eli Roth and starring Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo. Traynor, Locke, and Camp all took part in this film's production.