As Edgar Wright's remake of The Running Man gets closer to production, check out these similar dystopian fight-to-the-death thriller movies.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Stephen King’s The Running Man is a prime example of a dystopian thriller about characters being forced to battle to the death, and there are many other exciting movies of its ilk. King wrote the novel under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, which he adopted to make sure his early literary success wasn’t a fluke.
8 The Hunt Craig Zobel’s The Hunt tackled the Trump-era political divide in the United States through a riff on “The Most Dangerous Game” in 2020’s The Hunt. A group of powerful elites kidnap a bunch of working-class stiffs whose political views differ from theirs and hunt them for fun. The messaging might be a little heavy-handed , but Betty Gilpin gives a delightfully fierce performance as the badass the elites shouldn’t have messed with.
5 The Belko Experiment 80 American workers at an office in Colombia are locked inside the building and told to fight each other to the death in The Belko Experiment. There’s an added twist that raises the stakes: if they don’t start killing each other, devices inside their heads will explode. Wolf Creek’s Greg McLean directed the film from a script by Slither’s James Gunn. With a pair of proven horror auteurs at the helm, The Belko Experiment is filled with garish gore and unbridled carnage.
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