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Fatal Games (1984)

Fatal Games poster
Directed by
Michael Elliot
Genre
slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A masked killer uses a javelin to murder members of a high school gymnastics team.

80ssleazycheesyviolentlow-budgetformulaiccampy

What happens

Fatal Games (originally known as The Killing Touch and also known as Olympic Nightmare) is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Michael Elliott and starring Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Michael O'Leary, Teal Roberts, and Spice Williams-Crosby. The film follows a masked slasher, wielding a javelin, killing off members of a high school gymnastics team. Fatal Games was released in 1984 and received mostly mixed-to-negative reviews. The film shares many of its plot points with an earlier slasher film, Graduation Day (1981). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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