Death Tube

A snuff gameshow site "Deathtube" appears on the internet only a couple of times a year, and never for more than a week; routed through several off-shore servers, law enforcement (if they even know about it) are apparently powerless to track down the site's runners.
Soon after hearing about it, our hero wakes up on-set, he soon learns he is one of 8 'Players', are the games (as they claim to be) co-operative, or are they actually competitive? how many of the players can survive, and how many are allowed to?

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Also: why would anyone make a rip-off of "Are You Scared" and "Saw V" - I mean seriously?!? Why rip-off Are You Scared (Itself a piss poor Saw derivative) AT ALL, and if you must rip-off a saw movie - why part 5? Why not one of the good ones?

Whatever, our contestants wake up in separate room, at there first challenge is... A Rubik's cube. No, Really; most of the "games" the contestants are forced to endure are not the clever trails that Jigsaw and his successors put into action, oh no; for the most part they are simple challenges, but you get killed if you lose!

Imagine playing "musical statues", but whoever is "it" has a gun? - THAT would be better than some of these games.

That said, there is a certain (surrealistic) charm, especially once the costumed game-maker makes his appearance - I won't ruin it, but his costume is so left-field, that it did at least raise a smile.



A few days ago, I said that Kill Keith should have dropped the obvious attempts at comedy, and let the surrealism of the concept provide the humour... I suspect that's what the makers of Death Tube were attempting here.

It would normally be the kind of movie you could have fun over with a few beers and a couple of mates MST3K style... but for the subtitles. There a lot of them. It seems that the "death tube" site takes viewer comments (YouTube stylee) - only, if you comment during the live feed, the comments drift across the screen.It's clear that only about half of the "viewer comments" make it as far as being subtitled, but between those and the dialogue AND trying to follow the action on screen, expect to find yourself pausing and rewinding rather a lot (if you don't,  you may want to get yourself tested, as it's possible that you're some kind of savant.)

All in all it's very amateurishness  and it feels like some film students put it together as a "recurring gag" to be inserted into a sketch show; that said, it interested me enough that I see the sequel in my near future.