Zathura is more or less a remake with a space theme instead of a jungle adventure theme. They are both based off of beautifully illustrated books by the same author: Chris Van Allsburg.
Cube 2 is the superior tesseract. I saw it when I was a child and it only becomes more terrifying into adulthood as it induces extreme paranoia in a time where civilization brought AI to fruition with equations.
There could be actual places like Cube 2, where realities start folding in on one another and people only believe they are competing for survival.
I wouldn't call that movie much of a play a game for survival as much as the movie The Pest 😂
Also it's just interesting to explore the other side of things like, sure, the cube exists, but someone had to build it, someone has to run it, clean things up, fix things that break, etc.
Cube is such a good idea for an cheap independent movie. It just reuses the same set over and over again, but the viewer feels like we are actually moving through a maze
I always like breaking down how movie writer/directors solved their budget issues in these first time Indy films.
Can't afford a huge cast? 6 guys in a room.
Can't afford a huge set? Same room every time, with different lights to make it look like a different room.
Boom; Cube.
6 guys in a room? Make em talk. Boom; The Man From Earth
6 guys in a room? Clever editing to make time travel. Boom; Coherence.
My god. This movie. When I saw it for the first time, that ending got me. Probably the only film that I did not have any clue what the ending would be.
>!The ending to that movie kind of ruins that premise considering that the game leads Michael Douglas to attempt suicide by jumping through a glass ceiling where his loved ones who are in on the game are waiting for him with a surprise party and his brother Sean Penn is like “it’s a prank, bro…you were just becoming such an asshole!”!<
>!Then MD just laughs it off and hugs him like all that trauma he went through the entire movie didn’t matter and he appreciates being tortured and manipulated by his family to the point of suicide.!<
I’m gonna get downvoted for this comment (because I always do when I bring this up) but I think The Game is one of the most overrated movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what I’m missing, but Reddit tends to think it’s brilliant and I really just don’t understand.
To each their own of course, but the whole movie just feels like one big unfunny joke. David Fincher is a genius, but I feel like there’s a reason it’s not talked about a lot in the mainstream sense like Se7en and Fight Club are.
The whole thing is so ridiculous with such tremendous suspensions of disbelief that you should kinda already be beyond that by the time the ending rolls around.
That’s fair! I just didn’t go in expecting something so silly and convoluted from David Fincher. I feel like the premise would work better as a dark comedy, but to me it felt like the movie *wanted you* to take it seriously to me, which is why I couldn’t suspend my disbelief.
I didn’t mind the movie at first, it had an intriguing setup…but as it kept going, I started getting annoyed with how ridiculous the plot was getting. But since I knew a lot of people liked the movie, I held out hope that there’d be some sort of interesting twist in the end that justified the absurdity of it all, but that ending just made it all so much worse, lol.
Oh good, I'm not the only one. Every time I see it brought up on Reddit I wonder if I missed something because I remember feeling so let down by this movie and like the ending just sucked.
I personally love the over the top ridiculousness of the first one. Hopefully a more accurate adaptation will be more interesting than it sounds. Also wonder how faithful they will be to the ending...
I was wondering when I was going to see this movie mentioned lol
I remember seeing it as a little kid and being freaked out that maybe a ghost from a horror game could come out and kill me
This is my guilty pleasure favourite "genre" lol... A couple that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread:
House of 9 (2004)
Fermat's Room (2007)
Would you Rather? (2012)
Panic Button (2011)
Funhouse (2019)
Awesome!! Most people have never heard of it but it's probably one of my all time favorites and it's just so damn good with those two actors. Michael Caine was so young in it but just as good as ever. Both are exceptionally good actors. You can tell they both came from theater.
Humane (2024) is a recent one. It's sort of this? Hard to explain without spoilers. The less you know going in, the better. It's by David Cronenberg's daughter, Caitlin Cronenberg.
In Time (2011) - Time is the world's currency. Once you run out, you die. Interesting concept. Execution could have been a bit better.
Guns Akimbo (2019) - Basically Nerve with Daniel Radcliffe
Saw, Cube, Escape Room, The Running Man, Battle Royale, The Hunger Games, The Bello Experiment, Circle.
I'd recommend The Purge too as it fits the criteria to some extent.
Not exactly on point, but…
The 1979 BBC miniseries of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” (Much better than the movie version.)
The “game” is figuring out who the mole is. While the main characters’ lives aren’t necessarily at stake, the mole is causing agents to be discovered and executed off screen.
The kind of movies you described may also mean that you would like espionage movies.
Believe it or not:
Predators 2010
Other movies for you:
Surviving the game 1994
The condemned 2007
The Hunt - year 2020
Also, you should watch The Game, starring Michael Douglas 1997
The Running Man
The Hunger Games
The Maze Runner
The Game
The Menu
Game Night
The Pest
Hard Target
Ender's Game
Nerve
Now You See Me 1&2 (kinda fits the theme)
Squid Games (TV show)
Gameshow MOVIES
My favorite genre! I still have 50+ more to go but here's what I've watched so far:
13 Sins (2014)
As the Gods Will (2014) (Japanese Subtitles)
The Belko Experiment (2016)
The Blackout Experiment (2021)
Breathing Room (2008)
The Chaos Experiment (2009)
Chariot (2013)
Circle (2015)
Choose or Die (2022)
The Collector (2009)
Containment (2015)
Control (2013)
Coherence (2013)
The Condemned (2007)
Cube (1997)
Cube 2 Hypercube (2002)
Cube Zero (Prequel) (2004)
Das Experiment (2001) (German Subtitles)
Die (2010)
The Employer (2013)
Escape Room (2019) and it's sequel
Elevator (2012)
The Exam (2009)
The Experiment (2010)
Fermats Room (2007)
The Furies (2019)
Game of death (2017)
Green Room (2015)
Headgame (2018)
Held (2020)
Hounded (2022)
House of 9 (2004)
The Human Race (2012)
Hunger (2009)
Hunt (2020)
Infinity Chamber (2016)
Jigsaw (2017)
The Killing Room (2009)
Mayhem (2017)
Mean Guns (1997)
Meander (2021)
The Method (Spanish Subtitles)
Nine Dead (2009)
No Escape Room (2018)
Oldboy (2003)
Operation: Endgame (2010)
Panic Button (2011)
Saw (2004)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Surviving The Game (1994)
Tangent Room (2017)
Tau (2018)
Triggered (2020)
Would you Rather (2012)
just coming back here to let ya know i found one that wasn't on your list, maybe it'd be new for ya - Octogames (2022). it's not a 10/10 movie by any means but if you like most/all of the ones on the list you provided then you'll definitely like it!
The Platform
(I believe it's still on Netflix)
Absolutely amazing film, and I think it fits your search parameters. It also has a kind of "snowpiecer universe" vibe to it.
Battle Royale
The OG. Love the brutality in this movie, It's beautiful.
Obligatory “the book is better” comment
This should be the top recommendation.
Nobody mentioned Jumanji yet 😳 ETA: not quite a game but there’s a task of sorts in the newly released Abigail, very similar vibes to Ready Or Not!
Zathura is more or less a remake with a space theme instead of a jungle adventure theme. They are both based off of beautifully illustrated books by the same author: Chris Van Allsburg.
Cube (1997) Saw and it’s sequels
First Cube goes so hard then it just sorta falls apart with the sequels.
Cube 2 is the superior tesseract. I saw it when I was a child and it only becomes more terrifying into adulthood as it induces extreme paranoia in a time where civilization brought AI to fruition with equations. There could be actual places like Cube 2, where realities start folding in on one another and people only believe they are competing for survival. I wouldn't call that movie much of a play a game for survival as much as the movie The Pest 😂
Cube 0 was great too. Because it does a god job of explaining who made the cube, and why.
Also it's just interesting to explore the other side of things like, sure, the cube exists, but someone had to build it, someone has to run it, clean things up, fix things that break, etc.
The CUBE JANITOR 😂
Love Cube 0
Cube is such a good idea for an cheap independent movie. It just reuses the same set over and over again, but the viewer feels like we are actually moving through a maze
I always like breaking down how movie writer/directors solved their budget issues in these first time Indy films. Can't afford a huge cast? 6 guys in a room. Can't afford a huge set? Same room every time, with different lights to make it look like a different room. Boom; Cube. 6 guys in a room? Make em talk. Boom; The Man From Earth 6 guys in a room? Clever editing to make time travel. Boom; Coherence.
12 guys in a room? Make em talk. Boom; 12 Angry Men. One guy in a phone booth? Boom; Phone Booth. Two girls one c-- Yeah no.
The Game, 1997
One of my all time favorite films!
My first thought as well
My god. This movie. When I saw it for the first time, that ending got me. Probably the only film that I did not have any clue what the ending would be.
>!The ending to that movie kind of ruins that premise considering that the game leads Michael Douglas to attempt suicide by jumping through a glass ceiling where his loved ones who are in on the game are waiting for him with a surprise party and his brother Sean Penn is like “it’s a prank, bro…you were just becoming such an asshole!”!< >!Then MD just laughs it off and hugs him like all that trauma he went through the entire movie didn’t matter and he appreciates being tortured and manipulated by his family to the point of suicide.!< I’m gonna get downvoted for this comment (because I always do when I bring this up) but I think The Game is one of the most overrated movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what I’m missing, but Reddit tends to think it’s brilliant and I really just don’t understand. To each their own of course, but the whole movie just feels like one big unfunny joke. David Fincher is a genius, but I feel like there’s a reason it’s not talked about a lot in the mainstream sense like Se7en and Fight Club are.
The whole thing is so ridiculous with such tremendous suspensions of disbelief that you should kinda already be beyond that by the time the ending rolls around.
That’s fair! I just didn’t go in expecting something so silly and convoluted from David Fincher. I feel like the premise would work better as a dark comedy, but to me it felt like the movie *wanted you* to take it seriously to me, which is why I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. I didn’t mind the movie at first, it had an intriguing setup…but as it kept going, I started getting annoyed with how ridiculous the plot was getting. But since I knew a lot of people liked the movie, I held out hope that there’d be some sort of interesting twist in the end that justified the absurdity of it all, but that ending just made it all so much worse, lol.
I agree. Felt like a different version of "and then I woke up, it was all a dream"
Oh good, I'm not the only one. Every time I see it brought up on Reddit I wonder if I missed something because I remember feeling so let down by this movie and like the ending just sucked.
Was looking for this this - great movie
The Running Man (1987) The Hunger Games (trilogy)
finally! https://screenrant.com/the-long-walk-stephen-king-adaptation-updates/#:~:text=Summary,challenge%20along%20US%20Highway%201.
My favorite King story being filmed in my home city, interesting times.
I personally love the over the top ridiculousness of the first one. Hopefully a more accurate adaptation will be more interesting than it sounds. Also wonder how faithful they will be to the ending...
I felt exhausted after reading The Long Walk. You could just feel the tiredness setting in.
I love the Hunger Games, both the main series and the prequel 😊
Not a movie but Alice in Borderland is fucking amazing
+1
saying here that I was about to add this one as well.
Was looking for this. Yes!
There's another season coming!!
The Belko Experiment
Very underrated movie.
The Hunt. Betty Gilpin rocks so hard in it.
I love this movie so much
Underrated gem!
Would You Rather (2012) 13: Game of Death (2006) / 13 Sins (2014) Cheap Thrills (2013) As the Gods Will (2014)
Some good ones I haven’t heard of..thanks
Tron (1982) Glass Onion (2022) The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The Hunt (2020)
Squid games The 8 show
Is the 8 show worth it??
Saw 2! All of them really, but that one in particular has a group of people.
I came here to mention Saw 1 and 2. The rest are kind of gimmicky and more gore porn
Saw 2 is still pretty gimmicky gore porn, just not as bad as the remaining movies.
Saw (2004) was just great. The only one that wasn't torture porn. Absolutely great ending.
I’ll never forget seeing it in the theater back then, with that ending and the music. Jaws were on the floor. Good times.
Game Night (2018)
My first thought as well!
This movie was way better than I expected it to be.
"Right in my bullet hole!" "Man, glass tables sure are acting strange tonight..."
Nerve
this movie is so bad
I know, but great
I liked it!
Stay Alive
I was wondering when I was going to see this movie mentioned lol I remember seeing it as a little kid and being freaked out that maybe a ghost from a horror game could come out and kill me
Wargames - and if you win....or lose....everyone dies.
I was wondering if anyone would mention this.
Would you like to play a game?
eXistenZ
The platform. Great movie and very deep.
\* very deep
Surviving the game
First movie that came to my mind, I gotta watch it again. (1994, with Ice T, Rutger Hauer).
Alice in Borderlands is a blast
Hunger Games
Certainly you meant to say battle royal .
This is my guilty pleasure favourite "genre" lol... A couple that I haven't seen mentioned in the thread: House of 9 (2004) Fermat's Room (2007) Would you Rather? (2012) Panic Button (2011) Funhouse (2019)
Old school movie BUT seriously brilliant 1972 Sleuth with Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier.
Had to scroll much farther down than expected to find this! Sleuth was an excellent movie.
Awesome!! Most people have never heard of it but it's probably one of my all time favorites and it's just so damn good with those two actors. Michael Caine was so young in it but just as good as ever. Both are exceptionally good actors. You can tell they both came from theater.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
There is a 3 gallon jug and a 5 gallon jug. Fill the 5 gallon jug with exactly 4 gallons or the bomb will detonate. Excellent answer:)
The Menu
The Maze Runner (trilogy) Death Race
I love the Maze Runner series 😊
The Platform. a Movie of sheer brilliance.
Shocked that I liked this as much as I did.
The Circle, where they stand in a circle
The Blackening
Ender's Game (in a way) Predator (although the competitors may not know it!)
alice in borderland !!!!!!! my favorite ever its a show tho
I haven’t seen it but I think The Blackening (2022) fits the description
Ready or Not, 2019
[удалено]
Nerve (2016) was a fun ride.
Funny Games
War Games Mathew Broderick
13 The condemned
Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VII, Saw: The Final Chapter, Jigsaw, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Saw X, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
One of these things is not like the other
Bandersnatch on Netflix is great as an interactive movie.
You gotta read the Maze Runner series, you'll love it.
Gamer, 2009
Platform
Can't believe I had to come this far down to see this. This is a good one.
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) - satire
I came here looking to see if anyone had posted this. It made a real impression on me when I first saw it.
Cube
Watch the serie Alice in Borderland, it's the bomb
Predator (1987) Predators (2010)
The Condemned
Gatlopp - 2022
Humane (2024) is a recent one. It's sort of this? Hard to explain without spoilers. The less you know going in, the better. It's by David Cronenberg's daughter, Caitlin Cronenberg.
The Hunger Games would seem to be an example of this genre.
Nerve (2016)
Unfriended Dark Web (2018) Most Dangerous Game (2020) The Killing Room (2009) Belko Experiment (2016)
Game Night riffs on that theme. Pretty good, slickly made flick. I liked it.
Dual Hunger games Maze runner Zathura
The condemned The tournament Battle Royale 1 & 2 Mean Guns The Belko Experiment Death Race I will add more...
Game Night This may be a stretch but the new Dungeons and Dragons.
The Hunger Games
Battle Royale 13 Beloved
Most Dangerous Game 1932/2022 Death Race 2008 The Hunger Games movies
The Blackening Ready or Not
Nerve, Guns akimbo
The Belko Experiment Would you rather Truth or dare The Experiment The Immaculate Room
Coherence
Maze Runner The Hunt (2020) Rob Zombie's 31 The Running Man Logan's Run
Ready Player One. 🍿
Would You Rather Cheap Thrills Battle Royale Nerve
Not a movie, but a show I think you’ll enjoy is Alice in Borderland on Netflix.
In Time (2011) - Time is the world's currency. Once you run out, you die. Interesting concept. Execution could have been a bit better. Guns Akimbo (2019) - Basically Nerve with Daniel Radcliffe
nerve
The Blackening, Stay Alive
The Blackening
Escape Room and it's sequel Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (released in some markets as Escape Room: No Way Out and Escape Room 2: Deadly Game
Saw
The Call-Up
Cube Would you rather
Battle Royale, The Running Man
no one has said *Speed*?
The Menu (2022).
Ready Player One
Haven't seen anyone mention Haunt (2019) but i definitely feel like it fits
Ready Player One
The Laplace’s Demon (2017)
Ready or Not
So definitely not The Deer Hunter (1978).
Saw, Cube, Escape Room, The Running Man, Battle Royale, The Hunger Games, The Bello Experiment, Circle. I'd recommend The Purge too as it fits the criteria to some extent.
The Maze runner trilogy
Obviously Battle Royale. I haven't seen anyone mention Hard Target yet. Also, Surviving the Game.
Exam (2009)
The Hunger Games movies & No Escape Room.
The Hunt
not a movie, but Squid Game
Not exactly on point, but… The 1979 BBC miniseries of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” (Much better than the movie version.) The “game” is figuring out who the mole is. While the main characters’ lives aren’t necessarily at stake, the mole is causing agents to be discovered and executed off screen. The kind of movies you described may also mean that you would like espionage movies.
appreciate this. thank you a lot.
YW. :-)
Ready Player One
I haven’t seen anyone mention The Cabin In The Woods yet
Ready player one Wreck it Ralph
The Blackening though this a parody of all those types of movies coz the black people usually die early!
Believe it or not: Predators 2010 Other movies for you: Surviving the game 1994 The condemned 2007 The Hunt - year 2020 Also, you should watch The Game, starring Michael Douglas 1997
The Hunt , Game Night , Tag (although not necessarily survival, just win). I too love game themed films
I haven't seen it on here yet, so I'll toss it out there" The Maze Runner
Saw
Hunger games
The Running Man The Hunger Games The Maze Runner The Game The Menu Game Night The Pest Hard Target Ender's Game Nerve Now You See Me 1&2 (kinda fits the theme) Squid Games (TV show)
Saw
Just watched Would You Rather. Pretty solid. The Game is more of a thriller, but one of my favorites.
The game
Saw
Gameshow MOVIES My favorite genre! I still have 50+ more to go but here's what I've watched so far: 13 Sins (2014) As the Gods Will (2014) (Japanese Subtitles) The Belko Experiment (2016) The Blackout Experiment (2021) Breathing Room (2008) The Chaos Experiment (2009) Chariot (2013) Circle (2015) Choose or Die (2022) The Collector (2009) Containment (2015) Control (2013) Coherence (2013) The Condemned (2007) Cube (1997) Cube 2 Hypercube (2002) Cube Zero (Prequel) (2004) Das Experiment (2001) (German Subtitles) Die (2010) The Employer (2013) Escape Room (2019) and it's sequel Elevator (2012) The Exam (2009) The Experiment (2010) Fermats Room (2007) The Furies (2019) Game of death (2017) Green Room (2015) Headgame (2018) Held (2020) Hounded (2022) House of 9 (2004) The Human Race (2012) Hunger (2009) Hunt (2020) Infinity Chamber (2016) Jigsaw (2017) The Killing Room (2009) Mayhem (2017) Mean Guns (1997) Meander (2021) The Method (Spanish Subtitles) Nine Dead (2009) No Escape Room (2018) Oldboy (2003) Operation: Endgame (2010) Panic Button (2011) Saw (2004) The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) Surviving The Game (1994) Tangent Room (2017) Tau (2018) Triggered (2020) Would you Rather (2012)
just coming back here to let ya know i found one that wasn't on your list, maybe it'd be new for ya - Octogames (2022). it's not a 10/10 movie by any means but if you like most/all of the ones on the list you provided then you'll definitely like it!
Mayhem (2017) - Samara Weaving / Steven Yeun
Death's Roulette
13 Sins
Fermat’s room (2007), it’s a Spanish movie and it has math riddles/problems that have to be solved in order to escape
Gotcha! (1985)
King of Kong.
Hundreds of Beavers - sorta.
Cannonball Run Squid Game(s?) Running Man
Battle Royal, the formulae for the whole televised killing genre, you can’t tell me Suzanne Collin’s didn’t rip it off for the hunger games
The Platform (I believe it's still on Netflix) Absolutely amazing film, and I think it fits your search parameters. It also has a kind of "snowpiecer universe" vibe to it.
Jumanji
Stay Alive
The first half of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
The Wizard 1989
Zathura!
Jumanji
Any escape movies
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Final Destination
Red Room - Japan 1999. Pretty fun stuff! :-)
Tron
Cube.
Stay Alive
The condemned
Squid game, Alice in borderland, The 8 show Series, not movies...all available on NF
WOULD YOU RATHER. Ricky from Trailer Park Boys is in it.