The Crimson Labyrinth

TWELVE CONTESTANTS TAKE PART IN THE ULTIMATE REALITY SHOW, FROM WHICH ONLY ONE CAN COME OUT ALIVE Japanese horror about twelve strangers who find themselves as actors in a perverse reality show from which only one is permitted to emerge alive. Stranded in a desert, fed psychotropic drugs by a media crew that may or may not be the real puppet master in the game, the group become drawn into a nightmare reminiscent of Lord of the Flies. The goal is to be the last one standing. However, there is a fatal twist: the losers actually lose their lives. It is estimated that only a hundred people have actually viewed the show, which apparently ran on a closed-circuit exclusively for those who subscribed on a snuff-film chat-room. Japan has always been shocking the rest of the world with its game-show sadism, using tortuous punishments for wrong answers on family shows such as dry ice and boiling water immersion - but death is a first. Without video evidence of the show, all that is left is a book that may or may not be a stand-alone J-horror fiction novel.