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Music by
  
Greg Turner

Initial release
  
1990

Music director
  
Greg Turner

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Directed by
  
Tanya Rosenberg

Edited by
  
Rick Mitchell

Director
  
Tanya Rosenberg

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Screenplay by
  
Craig L. ClydeJames L. HennessyGeorge P. Saunders

Story by
  
George P. SaundersJim Makichuk

Starring
  
Gregory CummingsLaura AlbertShelley Abblett

Written by
  
Craig Clyde, George Saunders, Jim Makichuk

Cast
  
Laura Albert, Gregory Scott Cummins, Ross Hagen, Shelley Abblett, Don Dowe

Similar
  
CrossBones, Final Girl, Deadwater, Baghdad Texas, Lovely Loneliness

Blood Games is a 1989 slasher film directed by Tanya Rosenberg. The film stars Laura Albert and concerns the plight of a stranded all-girl baseball team.

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Plot

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After 'Babe & The Ball Girls', a team of female softball players, trounces the local team, their travel bus breaks down in the woods. Attempting to hike to safety, they end up getting lost and the group is set upon by disgruntled fans of the losing team. They are beaten, raped and some murdered. They desperately fight back with baseball bats and guns.

Reception

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From contemporary reviews, Variety referred to the film as an "attractively packaged but uninteresting entry for vid fans" noting that Tanya Rosenberg's direction was "below par" and that the "cast is attractive but never convincing as athletes. Acting is generally poor." Michael Weldon wrote the film suffers from having too many slow motion scenes, but declared it was "not as bad as it could have been".

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From retrospective reviews, John Kenneth Muir wrote in his book Horror Films of the 1990s opined that the film was "a horror movie that is more than just watchable. It's compelling, entertaining and scary. And, yes, entirely exploitive." Muir compared the film to I Spit On Your Grave, stating that the film "panders in true exploitation movie fashion" with long locker room and shower scenes but also with the way it exploits women's bodies it also makes a point that they are exploited creatures. In discussing the chick flicks of the horror genre, author Philip Green wrote that Blood Games is "also the most visually erotic of the movies in this genre",

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