Trivial, Game Show Carnage

Game shows! I think they used to be fun.  "Match Game," "Family Feud," "Hollywood Squares," and even "The Gong Show." Now, I don't know...I have no interest.  Never saw "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." You know what would might make them interesting? Right! Torture and carnage. Perhaps there are some of these on the Dark Web.  Our feature today is just one of those game shows.  Let us look at 2024's "Trivial," directed by James L. Edwards.

Contestants have been abducted, drugged, and manacled to chairs in a garage setting where they will participate in a game show of sorts. The host is the lovely and perky Laurel Edmonds (Sasha Graham). As the film opens, Dean (Edwards) is squaring off against Chris (Adam Scott Clevenger). These two contestants are reprobates, as we see in the film. Answer a question correctly and go to next round. Answer the trivia question incorrectly, and Laurel carves your face up. Miss three questions and Laurel hammers a spike into the top of your head. What we see unfolding before us will please the torture porn fans. It gets bloody. Each contestant is a social reprobate and their crimes are disgusting. Laurel seems to see herself as some moral avenger. 

One episode at a time, a reprobate is maimed and murdered. Web designer Brian (Drew Fortier) seems to have staying power.  What is his crime? You'll see, but it is the most personal of crimes as far as Laurel is concerned. Laurel's remaining sanity goes out the window as she gets more and more unstable.  Then, we get Janet (Shianne Daye)! She's a babe and her story pulls all the unanswered questions together and answers them.  Will Laurel maim a pretty blonde? Sure, it might be hard for us to watch, but Laurel is a brunette.

Just what do these contestants have to do with Laurel's plight?  Just who is Janet and what relation is she to Laurel?  Will the winner of this game get Turtle Wax, be set free, or merely a quick death?  This is a tough one to watch but those nostalgic for the old game shows will find this a worthwhile watch. See "Trivial" for a great Sasha Graham performance and some horror that will cause you to avert your glance.