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
Michael Ronald Ross
Screenplay
Peter S. Traynor
Director / Producer
David Worth
George Manning
Anthony Overman
Screenplay
Jack Fisk
Production Design
David Worth
Editor / Director of Photography
Peter Jamison
Production Design
Tino Zacchia
Makeup Artist
Larry Spiegel
Producer
John L. Moorehead
Associate Producer
Mel Bergman
Executive Producer
William Duffy
Executive Producer
Jimmie Haskell
Original Music Composer
Chris Christenberry
Assistant Director
Wes MacAphee
Assistant Director
Leslie Moulton
Second Assistant Director
Lowell Cannon
Property Master
Eric Edel
Set Dresser
Karine Haugseth
Set Dresser
Dan Martin
Set Dresser
Michael Nevler
Set Dresser
Bill Paxton
Assistant Art Director
Sissy Spacek
Set Dresser
Linda Spheeris
Assistant Art Director
Janet Stearns
Set Dresser
Beth Wasserman
Assistant Property Master
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 1, 1977
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Content RatingR
Genres
Wiki.
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, including 2015's Knock Knock, 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.