Frankly, it lives up to the title.

You are one of several trying out as a cast member for a slasher/snuff type flick. ‘Defeat’ your rivals through traps and by outright killing them without getting caught. Highest score at the end of the round wins. The premise alone was enough to get me to drop $4.99.

The game is pretty much a multi-player title, though Arcade Mode against AI bots can actually be interesting. There’s your standard Deathmatch mode where you rack up the most kills by the end of the round. Different weapons are worth different scores…from 2 to 5 points…when you get a kill with them. And every few kills, the scores are juggled by the Director (a delightfully gruesome fellow who keeps getting off on the violence and mayhem). You can carry 4 weapons at a time, and they run the gamut from woks to shotguns to needles full of poison to a fire axe.

You can also carry 4 different murder aids. These can be glue guns to stick your target to a spot, a baa-ing sheep to send them into nap land (and you as well if you’re too close when you trigger the damn thing…harsh lesson learned) or various temporary strength/speed type boosters.

There are roving security guards and security cameras to be wary of. Get seen with a weapon out, and the alert level fills up quickly. If you don’t put the guns away before it totally fills, security is after you. The same happens the instant they see you kill another character. If they catch you, they zap half your health with a Taser, take the weapon used or that you were wielding, and leave you vulnerable for a short time. So you need to avoid them and hide out in a corner until the alert drops totally (or find a costuming department and disguise yourself as one of the other cast members).

This in itself would be fun enough, but then we get to the traps. Oh, the traps! Killing someone with one of them is an automatic 5 point kill, and some can kill multiple targets at once. Sprinkler systems loaded with acid, fall-away floors, a massive gout of flame bursting from a fireplace, spikes popping up from the floor…nasty, nasty stuff that is incredibly (and possibly disturbingly) fun to utilize.

At the same time as you’re racking up kills and trying to avoid being taken out, there are three meters that drop at a regular rate. If your sleep level gets too low, you slow down. If your food level gets too low, you get weaker. If your bathroom break need level gets too low (low being urgent), both things happen. So you have to try to find out of the way beds, chairs and couches to sneak naps on, snack areas to get a burger or drink machines, and bathrooms to take care of business. Get caught doing any of these things, and you’ll soon suffer a special kill worth 5 points to your attacker.

Already, this would be a fun game for the price…but then there’s Hunt mode. In Hunt mode, every round each person is targeting a specific person to kill. Killing anyone else will drop your score, so you need to maximize the points you get from taking that person down. The only exception when it comes to killing others comes if you kill the person who is hunting you. That’s legit and scores points in your favour.

Playing Hunt mode will also result in other game modes being interspersed throughout the match. You might play a round in Infected mode…half the players are Infected, half aren’t. You essentially ‘tag’ someone to pass the infection to them, then avoid being ‘tagged’ back by anyone who is diseased. Points are doled out according to who spends the least amount of time infected. Or there will be a mode where everyone is targeting the scoring leader, and the leader can kill everyone else since they’re all hunting him/her. Or perhaps it’s a free for all round, or a round where everyone is trying to hold a statue that looks suspiciously Oscar-esque. When you wield it, you score point…but you can’t use any weapons. Elimination (Essentially a Last Man Standing match) or Revenge (Hunt mode, only you get a new target every time you kill someone…and all of your victims are now hunting you) are also a blast to play.

The game is a unique twist on the usual multi-player blast-a-thons, and definitely deserves a try if it sounds interesting to you. Everything is cartoony and amusing and very tongue in cheek, and they absolutely nail the B-movie aesthetic that they were clearly going for.