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4.2/10 • 33

1984-01-011h 28m

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There can only be one winner in this contest. Their mistake was to even compete!

The young athletes of Falcon Academy are training hard to earn their place in the nationals. But when these burgeoning sports stars start disappearing one after the other, Dr. Jordine and his team - who’ve started plying their athletes with new and untested performance-enhancing drugs - are baffled.

Directors
Michael Elliot
Editors
Jonathon Braun

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Sally Kirkland

    Sally Kirkland

    Diane Paine

  2. Lynn Banashek

    Lynn Banashek

    Annie Rivers

  3. Sean Masterson

    Sean Masterson

    Phil Dandridge

  4. Michael O'Leary

    Michael O'Leary

    Frank Agee

  5. Teal Roberts

    Teal Roberts

    Lynn Fox

  6. Spice Williams-Crosby

    Spice Williams-Crosby

    Coach Drew

  7. Melissa Prophet

    Melissa Prophet

    Nancy Wilson

  8. Angela Bennett

    Angela Bennett

    Sue Allen Baines

  9. Nicholas Love

    Nicholas Love

    Joe Ward

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Wuchak

Dec 21, 2023

5/10

Olympic wannabes slain by a javelin Athletes at an American farming school for the Olympics go missing, which leaves the staff and other students puzzled. “Fatal Games” (1984) is one of the many slashers that came out in the wake of the success of “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th.” The formula and tropes are simply transferred to a different milieu; in this case, an athletics school. I like the genre and this one includes all the ingredients necessary for a quality slasher, but drops the ball with boring characters/dramatics, too much filler, and an annoyingly dated score (the scores of “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th” are fresh by comparison). Then there’s the constant switches to the front of the school, which is supposed to be in Massachusetts, but it’s glaringly Los Angeles. Nevertheless, there’s enough good here if you’re in the mood for an 80’s slasher and don’t mind prosaic filmmaking. For instance, the revelation of the javelin-wielding killer is creative and well-done. It wouldn’t work today, however, due to eye-rolling political correctness. The movie runs 1 hour, 24 minutes, and was shot in the Los Angeles area at Redondo Beach (for the interiors done in Aviation High School, which is now demolished) and, for the exteriors, University High School in West Los Angeles. GRADE: C+

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
slasherathletics