Synopsis/Details
Set in a dystopian future where the death rights of convicted murderers are turned over to the victims families. Some choose to act out vengeance on their own, others choose to sell those rights to the county where a secret club of state judges have devised a last-man-standing game for their own form of justice and profit.
Danny Stone, fresh off of a two-year bid for embezzling money, looks to restart his life and rekindle his relationship with his wife and teenage daughter. His reset is tarnished when coming back from a job interview early finds his wife being attacked by a man in their bed. Or so he thinks. He takes action and after the tables are turned against him, and his wife shoots him for attacking her lover, he inadvertently kills them both in self-defense. His sister-in-law sells his death rights to the county judge.
Now, locked up in an abandoned prison with a ragtag group of death row inmates, he finds himself fighting for his life in the game developed by the state governor and his team. A game pitting death row convicts against one another and a trio of blood thirsty "enforcers", all while the families of their victims watch in a closed circuit viewing.
Danny’s 17-year-old daughter is the only one who believes in his innocence. She devises a plan of escape, but is captured herself by the enforcers and used as bait to fuel Danny's inner rage. Now, he must dig into the darkest pit of his soul and unleash his own hell to appease the governor along with the cheering crowd as he exterminates his opponents in the search for his little girl.
SIMILAR: The Running Man (1987), The Condemned
