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Envision Eli Roth's Hostel as a twisted game show, and chances are you'll have an idea of what director Craig McMahon is getting at with this gruesome game-show shocker in which a group of contestants are kidnapped and forced to kill for kicks. When Ivan Haswell II (David C. Hayes) decided not to follow his wealthy father K.K. into the world of publishing but become a professional gambler instead, he never thought about what he would do should he be banned from the Las Vegas Strip. But now, the unimaginable has become a reality, leaving the young entrepreneur to dream up another means of recapturing that long lost gambler's high. The result is Sportkill - a new kind of gentleman's club where the jaded elite can go to place their wagers for life or death. Rachel (Dona Wood) is a mortician's make-up artist who always does her best to make the dead appear as if they have simply drifted off into dreamland, but when Rachel is abducted and forced to take part in SportKill, it's she who may wind up in need of some post-mortem rouge. Will Rachel harm someone else just because she was told to, or will she perhaps become the first SportKill contestant to reverse the rules of this high-stakes game and strike back at her sadistic captors?