Dangerous Game

1988, VHS!

Johnny's comments:

Dangerous Game is a 1988 thriller in which a group of university students plan a night out mainly so they can hook up. Meanwhile, crazed Irish cop Murphy (Steven Grives) is harassing one of the students Jack (Marcus Graham) because of past history with Jack's father. After a incident as Jack is about to tell his superiors about the harassment, Murphy is suspended. The uni students get together where Jack bets so-called computer hacker David (Miles Buchanan, brother of Simone and Beth) that he couldn't hack into something big. David claims to have opened the door of a major department store downtown, so the group check and it turns out it is open. They decide to have a bit of fun in the store but they are followed by Murphy who wants to continue his harassment. Murphy takes the computer override key which locks the doors and leaves the students locked in the store with Murphy who attempts to torment them, but while throwing a knife at a target, he accidentally kills Tony (John Polson, again tagging along with angst like he did in last week's movie Raw Nerve). Murphy doesn't take killing Tony too well and decides to take it out on the remaining group and the rest of the night becomes a fight for survival.

A strange mix of stalker-thriller and typical 1980s computer-thriller where they haven't worked out what computers can actually do yet. It doesn't really work as either and is clearly made for an American market as a ticket into working in America. And it worked. The director, Stephen Hopkins, would go on to direct Predator 2 and the similar Judgment Night.

I swear I'd seen this movie before but couldn't remember one moment from it. Strange.

Anyway, Kathryn Walker (who is capped below) would only ever appear in 3 movies, this, the rare Australian western Bullseye and the struggling dancer movie Belinda that I should get around to capping one of these days. Strange scene below where she exposes her breasts that comes completely out of nowhere. Decided to put a few VHS caps of the nudity as the scene is mighty quick.

Kathryn Walker film clip (collages below)