Series 7: The Contenders

Jan 20, 2001

1h 26m

★ 6.3

Real People in Real Danger!

Overview

A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Thriller

Production Companies

October Films

Open City Films

Killer Films

Blow Up Pictures

Film4 Productions

Series 7: The Contenders Trailers

Cast

Dawn

Brooke Smith

Dairy Mart Clerk

Mark Woodbury

Tony

Michael Kaycheck

Connie

Marylouise Burke

Franklin

Richard Venture

Sheila

Donna Hanover

Lindsay

Merritt Wever

Jeff

Glenn Fitzgerald

Doria

Angelina Phillips

Dawn's Cameraman

Tom Gilroy

Michelle

Nada Despotovich

Craig

Stephen Michael Rinaldi

In a sleepy and uneventful small town, three college students, bored and desperate to make their mark, plot a savage and merciless murder. Electing to keep a video journal to memorialize their bizarre pact, they plot in secret, devising a homemade death chamber that will allow them to see, hear, feel, and linger over their intended victim's torment and final moments of life. Then, chosen at random, a fellow student becomes this victim when she is to receive perhaps the most brutal and horrifying of all fates. The default leader of this macabre trio directs the physical and psychological terror, even as contention and hostility within the group threatens to jeopardize their twisted plan, culminating in a violent and chilling conclusion.

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