If You Liked Squid Game...

Everyone seems to be talking about the South Korean show Squid Game, where 456 people in debt play games to win billions and the losers get exterminated and i was in on the ground floor with that because i have been watching all things Asian horror for years.
No spoilers here but it is as gruesome, brutal and entertaining as we have come to expect from South Korea but it is not a new genre, on the Asian Movies website, the horror genre has a category called 'Death Games' so there are plenty of them around.     
Squid Game has been compared to 'Hunger Games' set on an island where teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death in a televised death match but that is just a not too subtle blatant rip off of the Japanese move 'Battle Royale' which is set on an island where teenagers are forced to fight each other to the death in a televised death match.
The author of The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, maintains that she has never heard of Battle Royale and she just had a similar idea but i think she probably got the idea by flipping through the television and happened to stumble across a foreign film that she probably thought wasn't very widely known outside of Asia and thought she would nick the story-line and hoped nobody would notice.  
If you watched Squid Game and fancy a bit more of the same then i could recommend plenty of other movies that use the same concept of games where you win and the losers all get killed, probably the best one is a bunch of teenagers held hostage and forced to play games by two men dressed as giant dancing teddy bears (Japan, go figure) but there is an amazing Thai film called '13 Beloved' aka '13: Game of Death' where a jobless man has to complete 13 ever-more gruesome challenges starting with killing a fly to win 100,000,000 Thai Baht (approx £2m).
As Hollywood has been remaking Asian movies for a while now, it never really captured the sheer creepiness and cruelty that comes with an Asian film  so if you enjoy a bit of blood, gore and having the bejesus scared out of you, do yourself a favour and hunt down the original Asian versions, many are in full on YouTube, and you will not be disappointed.