Death Game

Death Game
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter S. Traynor
Written by	Anthony Overman Michael Ronald Ross Uncredited: Jo Heims
Produced by	Larry Spiegel Peter S. Traynor
Starring	Sondra Locke Seymour Cassel Colleen Camp
Cinematography	David Worth
Edited by	David Worth
Music by	Jimmie Haskell
Color process	Metrocolor
Production companies	Continental Film Associates Sunset Distributors
Distributed by	First American Films Levitt-Pickman Film Corporation
Release date	April 13, 1977 (1977-04-13)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$150,000[1][2]

Death Game (also known as The Seducers) is a 1977 American psychological thriller film directed by Peter S. Traynor, and starring Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, and Colleen Camp. The film follows an affluent San Francisco businessman who finds himself at the mercy of two violent, deranged women with a fetish for violence, whom he unwittingly allows into his home during a rainstorm.

Traynor, a former California real-estate financier, entered a career in filmmaking as a producer in the early 1970s, funding his projects through local investors. He purchased the script for Death Game to serve as his directorial debut. The film was shot primarily inside a large Los Angeles home with a small budget in approximately two weeks during 1974 with a projected release the following summer. Production was allegedly plagued with on-set disputes among the first-time director and the cast, and eventually halted due to a federal investigation into Traynor's financing methods. The theatrical release of Death Game was delayed nearly two years.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception for Death Game has been mixed among critics. While some read into the plot and violence as social commentary, others rejected it as meaningless exploitation. Death Game made unremarkable box office returns during its limited theatrical run, but found a greater audience with its home media releases in the years that followed. The film has been remade twice, first a Spanish production (1980) directed by Manuel Esteba and the second; reimagined and retitled: Knock Knock (2015), directed by Eli Roth and starring Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo. Traynor, Locke, and Camp all took part in this film's production.