THE SUICIDE CLUB is the story of what happens when bored, drugged-out rich kids decide to dress up and play games. Mariel Hemingway stars as an heiress, Sasha Michaels, who has been teetering on the edge of a mental breakdown ever since the suicide of her brother. Her friend Cam (Lenny
Henry) takes her to a private costume party in a gothic mansion, where the guests play a card game in which the winner must swallow a poisonous drink. Naturally, Sasha wants to play. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's
The Suicide Club, the film is almost unwatchable because of director James
Bruce's decision to have his characters speak in a literary English more suited to the ...
Released:
1988
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins