Rendező:
Mark PirroForgatókönyvíró:
Mark PirroOperatőr:
Craig BassukZeneszerző:
Gregg GrossSzereplők:
John McCafferty, Beano, Debra Lamb, Conrad Brooks, Darwyn Carson, Braddon Mendelson, Mark Pirro, Craig BassukTartalmak(1)
Chuck Toedan's the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin. Not surprisingly, Chuck has made more than a few enemies, from outraged viewers trying to ban his show, to families of losing contestants looking for revenge. A hitman hired by one such family has shown up at Chuck's office, and he'll need to enlist the help of his most outspoken critic to keep from ending up like most of his contestants. (Vinegar Syndrome)
(több)Recenziók (1)
Mark Pirro is fearless and he easily gets by with two jokes, which he stretches out over the entire film. I don’t want to judge him unfairly, as the first third of the film relatively briskly milks the basic premise of a morbid television show and intersperses it with a handful of embarrassingly literal jokes. But the rest of the film just idly focuses on the storyline with the murderer and his mother, who accidentally gets drawn into the game. Today, Deathrow Gameshow serves primarily as an expressive reminder of everything that could find success on the video market in the 1980s thanks to the adolescent audience that made up the main target group of similarly insipid direct-to-video trash and were satisfied with the mere unfulfilled, toothless promise of grittier entertainment than weekend television broadcasts offered.
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Photo © Vinegar Syndrome
