The Bunker Game is a frustrating addition to the 'role-playing gone wrong' subgenre of horror.
Knights of Badassdom—also a Shudder exclusive—showcases better gamesmanship. Though Zazzara’s production designers construct impressive “tunnels” dug under Mussolini’s fascist regime, there’s little substance behind the architectural intricacies or saturating red glow of alarms. At the same time, the screenplay leaves potential commentary about those live-action role players who reenact historical atrocities for entertainment on the table.
In the game’s premise, participants enter a bunker where they hear a post-WWII fantasy where Germany wins, and America starts a third nuclear war that spreads toxic waste across the globe. Experience mastermind Gregorio has created an underground world where LARPers pretend they’re chosen to repopulate what’s left above, except there’s a traitor in the encampment. Damsel Laura , Nazi Chancellor Andrej , and other company plants keep the theatrics alive as players commit to their fantasies.
Marco Graziaplena’s cinematography does a good deal of heavy lifting as the camera creeps around rocky corners, silhouetting characters against the pitch-blackness ahead.shines almost exclusively under dim subterranean lights and blaring redness when tension rises, which Graziaplena paints with artful brushstrokes. Scenes feel claustrophobic despite blown-open dimensions, as echoey chambers start to constrict when Graziaplena focuses more tightly on isolated inhabitants.
For all the movie’s issues, the performances are mostly blameless. Gaia Weiss imbues Laura with a fiery excitement equally as present when exploring deeper tunnel reaches as in her frustration over the men in her life asserting excessive control. Supporting characters remark about dying for their portrayal of Nazis—genre rigidity sidesteps a much more extensive discussion—while finding themselves stuck between following Gregorio’s presumed rules or fleeing in terror.
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