La Decima Vittima

La Decima Vittima is a old Italian film that depicts people participating in a game in which they must hunt down and kill a victim before the victim discovers and kills them first. The characters are on their 10th and final game before they achieve wealth and fame.

The movie was said to inspire the rise in a game of assassin a game in which players hunt down and mock assassinate others.

The movie itself was unusual. It had plot threads that seemed to go nowhere as well as many unexplained occurrences. While watching it I had a impression that there was something that I was not getting about the movie and i suspect this was largely because it was aimed at a 60s audience (and because of the environment I watched it in.)

The controversy regarding the assassin game seems rather forced to me. The idea that people could be actually worried because they see someone chasing another person or hitting each other with fake weapons seems absurd.