Since I've been on a Danielle Harris kick, I can't ignore her first/only solo directorial effort. It was around this time that her career was hitting a horror resurgence, so she jumped in with both feet.

The premise has a group of friends heading to an 80s murder mystery party. Whenever there's one of those in a horror movie, you know it always ends up as more than just that. Our guests are quickly drugged so they can't use their legs, sat around a table, and forced into playing a sadistic game of questions and consequences. It's reminiscent to Would You Rather from the same year, though not so much about rich pricks getting their rocks off. This is more about revenge, even if the perpetrator of such acts is being a bit dramatic with her motives.

It's not a terrible movie. It has a good cast, a few laughs, and some gross out scenes, which is pretty much all you can hope for with a movie like this. There's one scene where a guest on mushrooms (coupled with the paralysis drug) starts hallucinating something heavy and then we get something mildly amusing. Not only does Michael Biehn appear in a flashback playing this game and complaining a lot, but Danielle herself appears, dressed in her H4 Jamie Lloyd costume, just for the lulz. I imagine she found herself that costume and decided to throw it in the movie for laughs, and it worked for me.

This movie seems like it's going somewhere, leading to a possible ending of intrigue where maybe they all deserve the punishment, but then it just kind of ends on a really inconclusive note. Okay then. Could have used more Michael Biehn and Danielle Harris. And more Kane Hodder.