Sportkill (2007)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Craig McMahon

Writer:

Craig McMahon (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Sport | Thriller

Tagline:

place your bets gentlemen...place your bets

Plot:

Rachel's life will never be the same: after being abducted, and forced into the world of high stakes betting, Rachel must decide to play, or be played.

Cast

Dona Wood	...	Rachel
David C. Hayes	...	Ivan
Matt Robinson	...	Richard
Kevin Moyers	...	Orville
Jose Rosete	...	Assassin / Detective Rhames
Erin Del Rosso	...	Lisa
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Adam	...	Death Chamber Gambler
Jon Bonnell	...	Meat
Elias Castillo	...	A.J.
Jeff Dolniak	...	Mark
Dan Erbach
Scott Hopkins	...	Chet
Eleni C. Krimitsos	...	Sarah
Kimberly Piol	...	Mia
Klor Rowland	...	Death Chamber Gambler

Directed by
Craig McMahon

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Craig McMahon		writer

Produced by
Craig McMahon	....	executive producer
Craig McMahon	....	producer

Original Music by
Mickey Bullock
Craig McMahon

Cinematography by
Craig McMahon

Film Editing by
Craig McMahon

Sound Department
Christopher Saint Booth	....	supervising sound editor

Other crew
Philip Adrian Booth	....	colorization

Production Companies

• Post Reel Pictures

Distributors

• AtEntertainment K.K. (2007) (Japan) (theatrical) (limited)
• Presidio (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Alpha Filmes (2008) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Alpha Films (2008) (Brazil) (all media)
• Grindstone Entertainment Group
• MIG Film (2007) (Germany) (all media)
• Paramount (2007) (Spain) (all media)

Other Companies

• Twintalk Entertainment  post-production facilities

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language and sexual content.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Germany:18 | USA:R | Japan:R-18

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

Post Reel Pictures

Movie Connections:

Spin off Orville (2009)

Starting nowhere, going nowhere

What the heck... the only thing "Sportkill" has going is that it could surf the "torture porn" wave. Basically thats what the movie revolves around in the center... a sadistic club of rich guys who abduct people and make them kill each other. If they don't they get killed by a fat guy with a latex mask.

The movie doesn't even make a hassle to get to the hows and wheres. You see a female mortician working, then abducted, then being "dressed up" by a strange hillbilly and off we go to the happy killing fun where guys have to drink their girlfriends blood, people have to stab and amputate and if they don't they end up in the "labyrinth of horror" which is basically just a set of wood boxes.

What do you get... paper thin plot, ridiculous acting, little gore that is even funny (I laughed when a chick gets sown in half, then has her friend come in to kill her by choking her while her lower body is missing. The effect was really bad) and a mix of kills or a "Haze"-style claustrophobia in the "labyrinth of horror" which is neither claustrophobic nor creepy, just plain silly.

Basically this is what you get when one person does directing, editing and score. The soundtrack is just a series of low synthie noises appearing all throughout the movie. Like the movie itself there are now ups and downs, no dynamic, no development and even when the finale could have had something to it Mr. Producer spoils it with real bad editing. This movie makes no sense whatsoever, so better ignore it.