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| 4 | ''Game of Assassins'' is a 2013 [[DirectToVideo Direct to Video]] horror film starring Creator/BaiLing, Creator/DustinNguyen, Creator/JaimeRayNewman, and Creator/WarrenKole. The plot centers around five strangers who wake up in an underground dungeon and have to find their way out. |
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| 7 | !!''Game of Assassins'' contains examples of: |
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| 9 | * AsianAndNerdy: Jin is stated to be just a small business owner from New Jersey, yet he can recognize 6th-century architecture and has the engineering skills to build a circular dam. |
| 10 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: It's stated to be an incinerator, but yeah. |
| 11 | * CastingCouch: In-universe. |
| 12 | * ChekhovsLecture: David states how strangling someone causes them to go into cardiac arrest. [[spoiler:This fact is used later when he saves Emma from the last room.]] |
| 13 | * CleanPrettyReliable: When David [[spoiler:revives Emma.]] |
| 14 | * ClusterFBomb: Emma's preferred method of speaking. |
| 15 | * FromDressToDressing: When they first meet, David rips the bottom off his tee-shirt and uses it to bandage the cut on Kyle's leg. |
| 16 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler:David's father kills Emma right in front of David, just after he's saved her from the final level.]] |
| 17 | * LoopholeAbuse: How David [[spoiler:gets Emma out of the dungeon.]] |
| 18 | * MoralityPet: Tyler is this for Emma. |
| 19 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: In order to [[spoiler:save Jin]] and leave the first level, David and Emma twist a wheel to cause barbed chains to puncture a suspended dead girl's skin and drain her blood. [[spoiler:Turns out she wasn't quite dead.]] |
| 20 | * SadisticChoice: The dungeon seems designed to force these. |
| 21 | * TakeAThirdOption: In order to leave the dungeon, the characters have to fight to the death until only one is left. When it is down to two, David could either kill Emma, or let her kill him. [[spoiler:He instead stops her heart by choking her, thus defeating the heartbeat sensors.]] |
| 22 | * TitleDrop: Averted by Executive Meddling. The dungeon is twice referred to as "the gauntlet," which was the film's original title. |
| 23 | * YouWakeUpInARoom: The main plot. |
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