10 Intense Horror Movies You (Probably) Haven't Seen

The hard-to-find sequel to the cult classic that inspired the Hunger Games trilogy, Battle Royale II: Requiem picks up a few years after the original, where BR survivor Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara) has gone on to form a rebel terrorist group called the Wild Seven. Their objective? Declaring war on adults.

As if the first one wasn't wild enough, this instalment begins with the Wild Seven razing cluster of inner-city high-rises, before a fresh group of high-schoolers are recruited into a whole new game of bloody slaughter, with a few extra rules. Suited, booted and electronic collared, the students are tasked with assassinating Shuya in his island hideout. Exploding necks, savage betrayals and children on children violence ensues.

Although designed as something of a social criticism of the USA's world-police foreign policy in the wake of 9/11, BR II manages to be simultaneously too slapdash and contemplative to really see this through. It segues into something of a paramilitary actioner around the halfway mark and never quite recovers the intensity of its initial act. That director Kinji Fukasaku died during production may go somewhere towards explaining the odd shifts in tone.

This is one for fans of The Raid (2011) and, curiously enough, Alien Resurrection (1997).