may the odds be ever in your favor
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the top ten movies
that remind us of the Hunger Games
number 10 gamer kicking off our list is
the sci-fi thriller in which mind
control technology allows competitors to
control convicts in a real-life video
game shooter the twist the first kid to
score 30 points will win the competition
and their avatar will walk away with
their freedom and their life number 9
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
ok this competition isn’t to the death
per se but one of its competitors does
pay with his life in the fourth
installment of the series Harry is
forced to compete against his peers in a
dangerous Triwizard Tournament and must
be the first to complete three magical
tasks all while the threat of Lord
Voldemort lurks in the shadows number 8
the tenth victim in this satirical and
campy tale a club has been organized to
allow people to hunt each other in front
of a film crew members alternate between
playing hunter and prey until they’re
all killed interestingly their deaths
are used for commercials to promote the
event and keep up enrollment why this
cold but you can have dead number 7
rollerball in this futuristic tale the
only violence that exists is in the
brutal game of rollerball this sport is
used to satisfy the populations need for
bloodshed and to secretly oppress their
notions of individuality however when
the games champion becomes an icon the
rules are discarded and he must
eliminate all other players to survive
and bring self-determination back to the
masses
number six the Eliminator an isolated
location and several contestants in a
fight for their lives sound familiar
here the hunted pair off to improve
their odds however only one can claim
freedom and a ten million dollar prize
of course they must also flee a pack of
hunters just to keep things interesting
number five series seven the contenders
in this satirical take on the deadly
reality game shows on rrah six people
are selected at random to kill each
other for freedom and fame within a
small Connecticut community hey do you
have any bean dip this film adds an
emotional element by focusing on the
love story of a pregnant contestant my
water just broke
are you kidding me number four death
race we all know TV producers would kill
for high ratings and in this case they
do welcome to the next installment of
death race set in you guessed it the far
future prisons are overcrowded and the
masses are bored the solution is a
deadly pay-per-view event in which
killers try to stay alive Jason Statham
stars as a former Speedway champion
outfitted with a violent set of wheels
and the goal of beating his rivals to
the checkered flag number three the
running man in this post-apocalyptic
action film a police officer played by
Arnold is wrongly convicted of
massacring rioting civilians he is
placed in a deadly TV reality show where
the contestants are promised freedom if
they survive this is a sport of death
and Honor go to the gladiators like The
Hunger Games this story was inspired by
a novel however it adds such things as
deadly hockey players a dude covered in
light bulbs and a bunch of Arnie’s best
one-liners
you cold-blooded bastard I’ll tell you
what I think of it I live to see you eat
that contract but I hope you live in a
room for my fist because I’m going to
ram it into your stomach and break your
goddamn spine
number two the condemned coming in a
close second is the story of a man
awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt
Central American prison what were you
doing in El Salvador working on my tan
why’d you blow the building up that’s
blocking my Sun Jack Conrad played by
the WWE’s Stone Cold Steve Austin is
selected to take part in a live show
against the world’s most notorious
inmates for a single
get-out-of-jail-free card and a wad of
cash why don’t these criminals band
together to mount an escape simple
they’ve each been strapped with an ankle
bomb that will go boom after 30 hours
number one well go to row out of battle
royale coming in at number one is the
most comparable selection on our list
battle royale takes everything you love
about the Hunger Games and kicks it up a
notch
it’s violent full of subtext and
controversial as hell this Japanese film
focuses on the decision by the
government to teach their rebellious
youth population a lesson they do this
by randomly placing 42 teenagers on an
isolated island where they’re forced to
outlast each other the teens are also
equipped with a bag of randomly selected
weapons hey they don’t call it a battle
royale for nothing
that’s our list of films that remind us
of the Hunger Games which do you think
compares best
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the top ten movies
that remind us of the Hunger Games
number 10 gamer kicking off our list is
the sci-fi thriller in which mind
control technology allows competitors to
control convicts in a real-life video
game shooter the twist the first kid to
score 30 points will win the competition
and their avatar will walk away with
their freedom and their life number 9
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
ok this competition isn’t to the death
per se but one of its competitors does
pay with his life in the fourth
installment of the series Harry is
forced to compete against his peers in a
dangerous Triwizard Tournament and must
be the first to complete three magical
tasks all while the threat of Lord
Voldemort lurks in the shadows number 8
the tenth victim in this satirical and
campy tale a club has been organized to
allow people to hunt each other in front
of a film crew members alternate between
playing hunter and prey until they’re
all killed interestingly their deaths
are used for commercials to promote the
event and keep up enrollment why this
cold but you can have dead number 7
rollerball in this futuristic tale the
only violence that exists is in the
brutal game of rollerball this sport is
used to satisfy the populations need for
bloodshed and to secretly oppress their
notions of individuality however when
the games champion becomes an icon the
rules are discarded and he must
eliminate all other players to survive
and bring self-determination back to the
masses
number six the Eliminator an isolated
location and several contestants in a
fight for their lives sound familiar
here the hunted pair off to improve
their odds however only one can claim
freedom and a ten million dollar prize
of course they must also flee a pack of
hunters just to keep things interesting
number five series seven the contenders
in this satirical take on the deadly
reality game shows on rrah six people
are selected at random to kill each
other for freedom and fame within a
small Connecticut community hey do you
have any bean dip this film adds an
emotional element by focusing on the
love story of a pregnant contestant my
water just broke
are you kidding me number four death
race we all know TV producers would kill
for high ratings and in this case they
do welcome to the next installment of
death race set in you guessed it the far
future prisons are overcrowded and the
masses are bored the solution is a
deadly pay-per-view event in which
killers try to stay alive Jason Statham
stars as a former Speedway champion
outfitted with a violent set of wheels
and the goal of beating his rivals to
the checkered flag number three the
running man in this post-apocalyptic
action film a police officer played by
Arnold is wrongly convicted of
massacring rioting civilians he is
placed in a deadly TV reality show where
the contestants are promised freedom if
they survive this is a sport of death
and Honor go to the gladiators like The
Hunger Games this story was inspired by
a novel however it adds such things as
deadly hockey players a dude covered in
light bulbs and a bunch of Arnie’s best
one-liners
you cold-blooded bastard I’ll tell you
what I think of it I live to see you eat
that contract but I hope you live in a
room for my fist because I’m going to
ram it into your stomach and break your
goddamn spine
number two the condemned coming in a
close second is the story of a man
awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt
Central American prison what were you
doing in El Salvador working on my tan
why’d you blow the building up that’s
blocking my Sun Jack Conrad played by
the WWE’s Stone Cold Steve Austin is
selected to take part in a live show
against the world’s most notorious
inmates for a single
get-out-of-jail-free card and a wad of
cash why don’t these criminals band
together to mount an escape simple
they’ve each been strapped with an ankle
bomb that will go boom after 30 hours
number one well go to row out of battle
royale coming in at number one is the
most comparable selection on our list
battle royale takes everything you love
about the Hunger Games and kicks it up a
notch
it’s violent full of subtext and
controversial as hell this Japanese film
focuses on the decision by the
government to teach their rebellious
youth population a lesson they do this
by randomly placing 42 teenagers on an
isolated island where they’re forced to
outlast each other the teens are also
equipped with a bag of randomly selected
weapons hey they don’t call it a battle
royale for nothing
that’s our list of films that remind us
of the Hunger Games which do you think
compares best
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