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1989 American slasher film
- Night Game is a 1989 American slasher film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young, and Richard Bradford. It follows a police detective attempting to stop a hook-handed serial killer whose murders coincides with nighttime baseball games at the Houston Astrodome.
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The movie’s conclusion is dated, awkward, and insultingly sexist. Pickett’s demon lover engages her in a series of “night games” – dreams? realities? – and finally rapes her. And during the rape, she flashes back to long-repressed memories of when she was attacked by a man during her girlhood.
3 min read. Mai Zetterling’s “Night Games” is an absorbing, even brilliant film, but it fails to evoke much of an emotional response. It is a film made entirely in the mind, as if the heart were no concern, and it can be seen that way — as a cold, aloof study of human neurosis.
Seamlessly interweaving past and present, carnivalesque camp and potent symbolism, Night Games functions as both a feverishly perverse family portrait and a serious statement on the tormented soul of a modern Europe reckoning with the demons of its past.
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Seamlessly interweaving past and present, carnivalesque camp and potent symbolism, NIGHT GAMES functions as both a feverishly perverse family portrait and a serious statement on the tormented soul of a modern Europe reckoning with the demons of its past.
Directed by Mai Zetterling. A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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One month after Ingmar Bergman’s Persona was released in Sweden, Night Games cheekily put the same child actor in the throes of maternal attachment. Immersed in the son’s neuroses, Mai Zetterling creates a phenomenal psychodrama of debauched sexuality—one that counts John Waters among its fans!
Game Night is a 2018 American action comedy film [3] [4] directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez. It stars Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams and follows a group of friends whose game night turns into a real-life mystery after one of them is kidnapped.
