John and Gordon are boxing up their missing and presumed dead father's video store, when they stumble across a board game. One that uses a VHS tape. The tape gives you instructions or tells you what's happening as you play, I guess. I never played any of those.
The brothers, as well as Gordon's girlfriend Margot, don't think much of it at first. Until the woman on the video mentions winning the game will free their father's soul. Gordon starts having horrible nightmares of desiccated humans attacking him. So it's like Jumanji, but with fewer monkeys stealing cop cars.
A lot of the movie is about the brothers coming to grips with their issues with their father and some of the negative effects he's had on their lives. Their dad wasn't what you'd call reliable, and there's a fair amount of time (for a movie barely over 80 minutes) spent on the various ways in which their lives have been impacted by that.
The game aspect is kind of half-assed, there's not much to it in terms of figuring things out. It's mostly a way to arrange some bloody deaths. The movie likes its violence in the Evil Dead, fountains of blood, style. Which makes a certain amount of sense. The game is supposed to be from the Eighties, and John and Gordon were both fans of those splatterhouse slasher films. It was a surprise initially, for what that's worth.
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